Brunner Partners With Leading Headless CMS Solution to Drive Digital Transformation

By Rick Gardinier
June 28, 2023

In today’s digital-first world, digital content is at the heart of the customer experience for businesses of all sizes across market sectors. As businesses across the globe are developing more and more digital assets including websites, mobile apps, digital displays, and conversational interfaces, and as these digital channels and devices have evolved, the need for more flexible solutions has emerged.

To serve this need, Brunner has aligned with Contentful as a premier partner to significantly enhance the agency's ability to deliver exceptional digital experiences for clients. Contentful’s robust suite of services streamlines content creation, management, and delivery across various channels.

This partnership allows Brunner to move faster to keep up with evolving customer expectations and new market opportunities. To build successful customer relationships, content needs to be infinitely composable — easily adapting to new challenges and opportunities as the accelerated pace of the market demands.

In addition, the partnership empowers Brunner to leverage Contentful’s expertise and innovative solutions, ensuring best-in-class digital experiences for their customers. A headless CMS allows users to manage content in one place and be able to deploy that content on any digital channel.

Separating the frontend from the backend unlocks content, making it easier for marketers to manage content independently, and for developers to build faster, automate changes, and manage digital at scale. 

The Contentful® Composable Content Platform makes this possible by bringing the building blocks of content together so businesses can create once and reuse it for any digital experience. The API-first platform integrates easily with data sources and new functionality as digital experiences and technology evolve.

With built-in orchestration, a robust app ecosystem, and app framework to easily extend the platform, Contentful frees teams across the business to work together to connect, create, and extend content more efficiently. Contentful helps companies unlock the power of digital content so they can build faster and deliver at scale, making their content a strategic business asset.

Nearly 30% of the Fortune 500 and thousands of companies like Brunner rely on Contentful to help them bring compelling digital experiences to life, reach new customers and drive revenue, and many of these companies rely on the expertise of Contentful’s partners to help make this happen.

Rick Gardinier - Partner, Chief Digital Officer
Rick Gardinier
Partner, Chief Digital Officer

Rick Gardinier is a partner and chief digital officer at Brunner. With over 30 years of professional consulting experience in internet/digital marketing, software, and IT fields, Rick’s unique blend of technical, marketing, and business expertise enables him to build bridges between the technical and creative sides of the digital space. For the past 23 years, Rick has led Brunner’s digital practice, positioning the company as a top independent creative, technology, and data analytics-driven firm. He spearheaded the launch of Brunner’s innovation lab, BHiveLab, which for 10 years was dedicated to helping companies invent new ways to use technology to engage their customers. This has helped Brunner to remain at the forefront of digital innovation and maintain a competitive edge in the market. 


Prior to joining Brunner, Rick was the senior manager of technical operations at PCM Enterprise, where he was responsible for running the software development and project management divisions. He also worked as a technical sales engineer for Arrow Electronics. Rick graduated from Bowling Green State University with a B.S. in Computer Science and earned an MBA with a Marketing concentration from Capital University.

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