Case Study: Elastic achieves 500% faster development and dramatically lower costs with Built.io (via Contentstack)

Elastic’s Move To Built.io Contentstack From WordPress Speeds Up Development Process By Over 500%

Elastic, a 200–500 employee software company, needed to merge its .com and .org sites on a tight three‑month timeline. Its WordPress workflow was slow, unstable, lacked a proper staging process, and required repeating edits across domains and reliance on a slow external agency — creating a significant publishing bottleneck and high costs.

Elastic migrated to Contentstack (with Contentstack services and Built.io Flow integration) and was live within three months; onboarding became effectively zero and content managers could work without developer support. The move delivered a 500% faster development process, cut developer costs from $125/hr to $28/hr (about one‑fifth), reduced monthly server costs from $7,000 to $890, shrank page‑creation time from days/weeks to minutes/hours, and helped more than double page views.

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