Draft:CrafterCMS

CrafterCMS is an open-source headless web content management system (CMS), founded in 2013 in Virginia, USA by Mike Vertal, Russ Danner and Sumer Jabri. The name of the company is Crafter Software Corporation and the name of the platform is CrafterCMS. As of 2024, company is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

History
Crafter Software Corporation was originally founded in 2013 and released first version of CrafterCMS in 2014. Since then, the platform has undergone continuous development and refinement, with regular updates and enhancements to meet the changing demands of the digital landscape. In 2019, Crafter partnered with Lighter Capital, receiving revenue-based debt investment, which resulted in rapid growth and profitability. Later in March 2022, they closed on a second institutional round of funding from Lighter Capital.

CrafterCMS version 4.0 was launched in June 2022, that introduced an experience builder for composing digital experiences, a Crafter Studio Content Authoring Application, and a plug-in framework with an expanded marketplace. In February 2024, CrafterCMS announced expansion of marketplace with more than 60 plugins including an AI-plugin, that integrates ChatGPT from OpenAI to accelerate the content creation.

Community and Support
CrafterCMS is distributed under an open-source license (GNU General Public License Version 3.0), making it freely available for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It has a vibrant and active community of developers, contributors, and users who provide support, documentation, and resources to help others succeed with the platform.