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Migrating hundreds of thousands of pages, re-platforming and extending for the leading composable AI integration platform
We are the Uniform to Prismic migration experts
Challenges with Uniform
Uniform’s biggest problem is the price of admission. And once you're in, good luck breezing through the learning curve. Teams consistently need workshops, onboarding sessions, and a few existential crises to get comfortable with its orchestration layer.
Because it’s still a relatively young DXP, the ecosystem is thin. You won’t find the deep plugin libraries or community support you get with more established headless tools. Content teams also struggle with their mental model. Especially since the abstraction adds a layer of debugging that feels like fighting a boss battle before publishing a single page, and unless you’re on their higher tiers, expect features and limits that remind you this thing is very much built for enterprises… not anyone trying to stay under budget this decade.
Key pain points
High enterprise pricing barrier
Uniform sits behind an aggressively enterprise paywall, making even basic usage expensive unless you're already swimming in Fortune-500 budgets.
Complex learning curve
Its whole “experience orchestration” model takes time to wrap your head around. Your team won’t be productive on day one, or even week one.
Extensive training requirements
Marketers and developers both need onboarding and workflow retraining, which slows adoption and inflates your implementation cost.
Enterprise-tier feature limitations
A surprising number of essential features only unlock once you upgrade, which is frustrating when the base plan is already pricey.
Preview functionality gaps
Content creators won’t love the limited, indirect preview setup. It’s nowhere near as smooth as modern CMSes with first-class real-time preview.
Integration complexity overhead
Uniform’s abstraction layer adds mental overhead and troubleshooting work when things break, especially if you're stitching together several backend systems.
Benefits of Prismic
Prismic is phenomenal for simplistic page-builder-style websites. Its simplistic drag-and-drop page builder, along with the newer code-based version, helps you generate like-for-like components and automates the developers' process.
The built-in media optimisation tool is also great, so you can ensure that even if you're uploading 4mb images, they're going to be scaled down with minimal compression artefacts.
Key advantages
Content scheduling capabilities
Prismic makes it ridiculously easy to plan content ahead with built-in scheduling without any plugins or workarounds. Just pick a time, hit schedule, and your release goes live exactly when you want it.
Intuitive visual editor
The editor feels natural even for non-technical teams, with clean previews and simple fields. It keeps the writing flow distraction-free while still giving developers structure.
Efficient slices feature
Slices let you build repeatable, flexible components that marketers can rearrange without breaking layouts. It’s the closest thing to structured Lego-blocks for content teams.
Rich media embedding
Embedding images, videos, and rich assets takes seconds. You don't need to hack templates. Just paste, pick, and publish.
Flexible component reuse
Developers create once, marketing teams reuse forever. Slices and custom types make content scalable without adding complexity.
Seamless publishing experience
Publishing is fast, predictable, and drama-free. If you want to do a small tweak or a full-page release, everything ships smoothly with minimal cognitive load.
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