Kajoo wins CMS Idol 24 in Montreal

A new, efficient approach to building digital experiences and a much improved live demo from Toronto-based software start-up Kajoo is what edged them to win a very close race at the CMS Idol contest held at the CMS Connect 24 conference in Montreal earlier this month.

Kajoo offers an AI-powered digital experience builder, which converts sketches, Figma designs and legacy websites to modern Jamstack code.

It’s a solution to a well known problem in the crowded CMS space: How do I bring down the time-to-value and also the cost of implementation.

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Directus wins CMS Idol 2024

Cool dashboards are not something we are used to seeing among CMS vendors, but it’s one of the things that stood out from the winning Directus demo at the prestigious CMS Idol 2024 contest held last week at CMS Kickoff 24 conference in Florida.

Directus is an open source composable CMS and CEO and Cofounder Ben Haynes did the one-man-show which won both big majority of the votes and also the stamp of approval from the three judges.

With each vendor being given only six minutes to their pitch, Ben managed to mix his time with both a few slides to set the stage and the live demo.

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