Your Website Rebuilt in Days, Not Months
Replatforming used to mean eighteen months of discovery, migration headaches and a launch that was already out of date. Pop-up design systems change the equation entirely. Here is how we extract, build and deploy a governed front end in days.
The Replatforming Trap
Most organisations dread the word replatform. It conjures images of twelve-month programmes, frozen roadmaps and a go-live that feels more like a relief effort than a celebration. The problem is not the technology. It is the approach. Traditional migrations treat every site as a bespoke construction project. Every page is hand-built. Every component is debated. Every CMS quirk becomes a blocker. By the time the new site launches, the business has moved on and the whole cycle starts again.
What a Pop-up Design System Actually Is
A pop-up design system starts with what you already have. We scan your live site, extract its visual language into design tokens (colours, typography, spacing, grid) and generate a governed component library. That library is headless. It does not care whether the back end is Drupal, Umbraco, Wagtail or a static API. It deploys anywhere that exposes content through an API. The result is a brand-consistent, accessible, performant front end that your editors can populate immediately. No six-month build. No waterfall handover. Days.
Why This Matters for Enterprise and Public Sector
If you manage a complex web estate with multiple brands, markets or services, the maths changes dramatically. Instead of rebuilding each site individually, you extract one design system and deploy it across every channel. Bayer did this across 23 consumer health brands. National Grid consolidated four legacy CMSs into a single governed platform. For public sector organisations managing dozens of service sites under one brand, this approach means consistent citizen experiences, WCAG compliance baked in, and teams that can launch new services in days rather than quarters.
The Five-Day Pattern
Day one: scan the live estate and extract tokens. Day two: generate the component library and validate against brand guidelines. Day three: connect the headless front end to the content API. Day four: populate, test, refine. Day five: go live. This is not a thought experiment. It is a repeatable pipeline we call CodeOps, and it runs the same way every time. The speed comes not from cutting corners but from eliminating the decisions that slow every traditional project down.