Draft:Prismic

Prismic is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that provides content management and website development solutions. It is categorized as a headless Content Management System, although the company identifies itself as a headless page builder. Prismic is headquartered in Paris, France, with a distributed team across 13 countries.

History
Prismic was established in 2013, introducing an API-based content management system aimed at alleviating the limitations associated with monolithic CMSes for website developers.

The company attained profitability in 2016 and in 2021, Prismic secured a Series A funding round of $20 million USD, with investments from Aglaé Ventures and Eurazeo.. . In an interview, a representative of Prismic expressed that the platform serves a broad user base including anyone seeking a web presence. They highlighted the ability to create custom website sections — termed "slices" — which team members can utilize within a page builder to create website pages

Products
Prismic's services fall under the umbrella of a headless page builder, an offshoot of headless CMS focused solely on website use cases. The platform facilitates content editing, storage on Prismic servers, and delivery through the Prismic API. Key features encompass custom content modelling, content scheduling and versioning, multilingual support, and "slices," which enable content editors to assemble on-brand pages autonomously

The Prismic ecosystem includes three interconnected products: a visual Page Builder (the content editing interface), an API, and a website development tool named Slice Machine.

Additionally, Prismic offers dynamic multi-session previews, enabling the sharing of multiple simultaneous dynamic previews with sharable links

Reception
Opinions vary regarding Prismic's proprietary content as a service model versus open-source CMS alternatives. In his book, "Decoupled Drupal in Practice", Preston So critiques proprietary CMS platforms but acknowledges that both Contentful and Prismic offer free and open-source SDKs which facilitate development in one's preferred language, albeit within a proprietary platform context.

Anne Ahola Ward, in her book "The SEO Battlefield", characterizes Prismic as a "developer-centric" CMS, applauding its automatic updates and compatibility with any templating language.

According to the 2021 Jamstack Survey, 11% of respondents had utilized Prismic, and 53.79% were aware of it. Among all CMSs included in the survey, Prismic ranked 7th in usage and 4th in satisfaction.

CMS Wire, in a 2018 review, and Smashing Magazine, in a 2021 roundup of headless CMSs , both commended Prismic for its user-friendly nature and innovation in the headless CMS space respectively.

However, some criticisms have been leveled at Prismic for its initial lack of a write API, which was later addressed with the announcement of a Migration API in 2023. Some users also pointed out issues like the absence of required fields, challenges in modeling nested navigations, and the platform's primary focus on certain frontend frameworks.

Clients
Prismic boasts a clientele of over 15,000 customers, including notable names like Google, eBay, Netflix, Deliveroo, and Digital Ocean.