Gradial ACI (Agentic Content Infrastructure) is a governed content foundation for content-driven websites. It connects structured content to your frontend components, validates each release, and gives teams a clear path from draft to live.
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What ACI provides

Structured, versioned content

Pages, shared fragments, site configuration, and personalization overlays use a consistent file-based model with a reviewable history.

A contract with your frontend

Component and layout contracts define which content your site accepts. ACI validates content against those contracts before release.

Safe review workflows

Branches isolate work in progress. Each branch can be previewed with its linked code before changes are approved.

Controlled delivery

Approved changes are promoted deliberately, staged as a release, and activated as one consistent site version.
ACI supports both standard site content and personalized experiences. It compiles a base experience and any configured variants before delivery. At request time, ACI selects an eligible variant at the edge and falls back to the base experience when no variant applies.

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How ACI fits into your stack

Your frontend remains in your repository and continues to use your design system. ACI connects content to that code through a small project configuration and typed component and layout contracts. Current starter projects support:
  • Astro for the standard ACI site setup
  • Next.js when your site needs the Next.js ecosystem or ACI’s supported server-rendered delivery mode

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One workflow, regardless of where work starts

A change may begin with a content team in Gradial, a developer editing project files, or a compatible coding agent. The path to live stays the same:
  1. Make the change on an isolated branch.
  2. Validate it against the site’s contracts.
  3. Preview the branch with the intended code build.
  4. Land approved work on main.
  5. Promote selected content to live.
  6. Stage and activate a release.
This separation lets teams iterate without changing the live site and makes approval distinct from publication.

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ACI and the Gradial platform

ACI provides content structure, validation, preview, personalization, and delivery. Gradial is the marketing execution platform that works through those capabilities to help your team plan and complete content operations. The same content model and validation rules apply whether a person, Gradial, or developer tooling makes the change. That keeps governance attached to the work instead of the interface used to create it.
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