Pantheon Partnership
- Web Development
- Development
- Digital Strategy
- Technical Consulting
- Support
- Strategy
(01)Overview
More than a decade with Pantheon
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Fast Forward has been a Pantheon partner for more than a decade — long enough to have run sites through every shape of the platform, from the original PHP hosting to Decoupled Sites to the Next.js platform that runs this site today. The relationship has held up because Pantheon has consistently been on the leading edge of enterprise web hosting, and consistently understood what developers actually need.
The things Pantheon got right early — and keeps getting right — are the unglamorous ones. CI/CD that maps cleanly to Dev/Test/Live promotion. On-demand Multidev branches that spin up a full environment for a feature, a migration phase, or a risky update. Automated core, plugin, and module upgrades that flow through the same review surface as everything else. Terminus, the platform CLI, that lets a small team operate a lot of sites the same way across Drupal, WordPress, and Next.js. None of that is flashy. All of it compounds.
(02)Excited for the Future
Content workflows are changing, and that's a good thing
The shape of a content team in 2026 is not the shape it was in 2016. Marketing doesn't live in the CMS anymore. Briefs draft in Google Docs. Project plans run in Monday or Airtable. Brand assets ship out of Adobe Express or Canva. Internal docs sit in Office365 and Sharepoint. Each team picks the tool that fits the way they actually work, and the website is just one surface among many that has to keep up.
That's a shift toward loosely-coupled systems — and it's a good shift. The old model, where one CMS owned everything from the editorial calendar to the asset library to the publishing surface, never really fit how teams operate. The new model says: let the marketing team work in the tools they're already productive in, and design the website so it can pull from any of them.
Pantheon's newer offerings make that practical at the hosting layer — first-class support for headless and decoupled architectures, the Next.js platform, and edge delivery that handles the speed and scale problems before they reach a single line of application code. Combined with our decade-plus of WebOps experience, that's the leverage we're aiming at: a site that meets each team where they already work, instead of asking them to come back to the CMS.
(03)Services
What we build on Pantheon
The work falls into three shapes:
- New site design and build. Strategy, design, and engineering for a Drupal, WordPress, or Next.js site standing up on Pantheon from scratch. The output is the site, the WebOps workflow around it, and a team that knows how to run both.
- Site migration. Whether that's moving a corporate site onto Pantheon from another host, or moving between Pantheon platforms as the right shelf changes. We run migrations against the actual content, not a sample, with re-runnable scripts that survive the inevitable late-stage changes.
- Site replatform. A more substantial rebuild that swaps the underlying CMS or framework — Drupal to WordPress, WordPress to Next.js, monolith to decoupled. These are the projects where the platform shape and the editorial workflow have drifted apart, and the answer isn't a refresh.
(04)Additional Services
Other ways we work with Pantheon teams
Not every engagement is a full project. Two patterns we run regularly:
- Staff augmentation. Whether you're an agency with more concurrent work than your roster can hold, or an internal team that needs additional bandwidth on a Pantheon site, we'll embed a team member with you for the duration. They work in your tools, on your schedule, with your team's conventions — and bring the Pantheon and WebOps depth you'd otherwise need to hire for.
- Workflow consulting. Strategic work on WebOps practice, CMS design, content modeling, release process, and the long-term shape of a site. Useful when the site itself is fine but the team running it is hitting friction that's hard to name from the inside.
(05)Get In Touch
Let's talk about your Pantheon project
If you're scoping a build, a migration, a replatform, or ongoing support on a Pantheon site, get in touch. We'll start with what's actually slowing the team down, not the stack.
Pick a platform that gets out of the way, then let every team work in the tool that fits them best.
