Plenary · 25 September 2026
Sanity CMS, live.
A working demo, an honest comparison with AEM and Strapi, and a clear recommendation.
Why now
Headless and AI-driven content operations are changing how clients buy CMS platforms. We tested Sanity end to end so our recommendations are based on real delivery, not marketing.
AI & automation
- GAAll plans
Sanity Functions
Serverless handlers that run on content events, schedules or other functions; 500k invocations per month included.
- AEM:
- OSGi event handlers / App Builder
- Strapi:
- Lifecycle hooks (self-hosted code)
- In this demo:
- Publish an English case study → Italian draft in ~6 s
- ExperimentalAll plans
Agent Actions
AI on documents from code: Generate, Transform, Translate, Prompt, Patch. Uses AI credits (1,000/month included).
- In this demo:
- Used by the translate-case-study Function
- GAAll plans
Content Agent
Schema-aware AI assistant: finds, fixes, translates and creates content in bulk. Changes are staged for review; publishing is always a separate step.
- AEM:
- Adobe AI features (separate products)
- Strapi:
- Strapi AI (Growth plan)
- In this demo:
- sanity.io Dashboard → Content Agent
- GAGrowth
AI Assist
In-Studio AI instructions on any field, plus translation of whole documents or fields.
- In this demo:
- Any field → sparkle icon
- GAAll plans
MCP server
Lets AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code) query and edit content with full schema awareness.
- AEM:
- n/a
- Strapi:
- MCP server
- BetaAll plans
Knowledge Bases
Pre-built, reconciled topic index over datasets, websites and PDFs, served to AI agents.
- Coming soonAll plans
Durable Functions
Long-running, multi-step publish pipelines that survive third-party failures.
Planning a new platform?
AEM, Strapi or Sanity: talk to our architects.
FAQ
Can Sanity run on our servers?
The editing app (Studio) can; the content database (Content Lake) is SaaS only.
Does it replace AEM?
Not for enterprise DAM, MSM-heavy multi-site or strict data-residency projects. It is a strong option for structured, omnichannel content with a custom frontend.