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Open-Source Ecosystem And AI Integration: Dinis Guarda Interviews Pierre Burgy, Co-Founder And CEO Of Strapi
7 Aug 2025, 6:26 pm GMT+1
In the latest episode of the Dinis Guarda Podcast, Pierre Burgy, Co-Founder and CEO of Strapi, discusses the open-source CMS platform's features, its ecosystem, the Strapi Marketplace, and the integration of AI to enhance content management and development processes. The podcast is powered by Businessabc.net, Citiesabc.com, Wisdomia.ai, and Sportsabc.org.
Pierre Burgy is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Strapi. Before founding Strapi, Pierre worked as a full-stack developer and front-end developer for several companies. He freelanced as a full-stack developer at Checkout.com in London. He also freelanced for Oui Will in the Greater San Diego region.
During the interview, Pierre discusses Strapi, its purpose, features, and the open-source ecosystem that supports it:
"Strapi is a content management system, so the content management system is a tool to manage content typically on a website.
If you build a website, you need to update the content. You might want to add a new blog post, you might want to edit the homepage, and so on and so on. Strapi is open source, it’s fully customisable, and there is a very large community around it.
That community is made of individual contributors all over the world, as well as solution partners, typically digital agencies that use Strapi, recommend Strapi, and build around Strapi by developing plugins.
There are more than 200 plugins on the Strapi marketplace, and that really makes Strapi so much more than just a CMS. It's not just a CMS, it's a full ecosystem."
Strapi Ecosystem
Pierre explains that Strapi's marketplace is key to its ecosystem, enabling users to leverage integrations and save time on development:
"Strapi Marketplace is super important, that's where, as a user, you can get a ton of value from what other developers have built.
If you need an integration with Shopify, for example, you will find it on the marketplace, and so you will save a ton of time when building your own project. It's really the power of building in this ecosystem, and it's also about all of these solution partners and digital agencies recommending Strapi to their end clients.
We also discovered that we were spending 90% of our time building custom stuff for clients, although we want to be a product company and offer the absolute best CMS. The ecosystem is so important, and there are these different circles that really gravitate around, and that is the key element, the community.
When you talk about open source, there's so much complexity because you have to keep building. If you're in a closed environment, you have the advantages of everything in a package, but if you're not, it's quite tricky.
Let me explain. In a traditional CMS, you really have two components. You have the back end, which is the admin panel to manage content.
The front end, which is the visible part of the website, is typically generated by the CMS. Now, developers want to use modern technologies for performance, and they want to use frameworks independent of the CMS.
In a traditional CMS, you have the back end and the front end. In a headless CMS, you have the back end, and instead of the front end, you have an API. This API makes the contents available to any platform, no matter if it's a mobile application or a front-end made with a modern frontend framework."
The Strapi marketplace
Pierre explains Strapi's success and how the Strapi Marketplace:
"Strapi marketplace is super important. That's where, as a user, you can get a ton of value from what other developers have built. If you need an integration with Shopify, for example, you will find it on the marketplace, and so you will save a ton of time when building your own project.
We really empower [solution partners and digital agencies] to recommend Strapi to their end clients. We do not compete with them because we have absolutely no intention of becoming a service company. We want to be a product company and offer the absolute best CMS.
The ecosystem is so important, and there are these different circles that really gravitate around it. That is the key element, the community.
At the moment, the most important thing is the ecosystem, the communities, and I think it's quite difficult because, like you said, when you talk about open-source, there are so many complexities.
Headless means that there is no front end in the CMS. In a traditional CMS, you really have two components. You have the back end, which is the admin panel to manage content.
There's also the front end, which is the visible part of the website. In a traditional CMS, the front end is generated by the CMS. But now, because developers want to use much more modern technologies, they want to use frameworks which are independent of the CMS.
In a headless CMS, you have the back end, and instead of the front end, you have an API. This API makes the contents available to any platform, no matter if it's a mobile application or a front-end made with a modern frontend framework.
The ecosystem keeps growing. So that's a very good signal. Strapi is used in over 53,000 websites, and we've seen huge adoption from big organisations like IBM and NASA."
Pierre explains the key features of Strapi that make it stand out:
"What really makes Strapi special is that it's open source. You can host Strapi on your own cloud provider, and you can customise Strapi for code.
You can integrate it with your existing tools. There's also a very large community of users and partners all over the world. If you need to build a project, you will find Strapi developers, you will find Strapi partners, and this will save a ton of time when building your own project."
AI-powered composable content management systems
Pierre discusses the evolving landscape of content management systems (CMS):
"When it comes to composability, which is this idea of connecting tools together, having a CMS that is great because it's API-first. So you can connect it to any tool no matter if it's your CRM or your e-commerce CMS for example.
That's a very important item. But what's changing these days is AI. It's changing the way we code. It's changing the way we do marketing.
The CMS is really at the intersection of developers and marketers. We truly believe that AI is going to empower both developers and marketers.
It might be scary because things are moving really fast, but we as a CMS are here to empower both developers and marketers and even digital agencies to really serve this wave, this gigantic opportunity that AI is.
This is why, at Strapi, we released Strapi AI in May 2025. Strapi AI is a suite of functionalities that really brings AI into the CMS.
The first step that we announced is the AI content type builder. So now you can just chat with Strapi and say, 'Hey, I'm building an e-commerce website. Please create the content structure for me.' It will automatically suggest a content structure for your specific project.
If you're building a blog, for example, it will create a title. It could also create a content field. It will create an image field, maybe, everything you need. If you have built a project with React, for example or any other front-end framework, you can just drag and drop that project into Strapi, and Strapi will scan all of the components. It will detect a component button, menu, and create the content structure that is ideal for your front-end project. That saves a lot of time for developers in the process.
The other AI features that we're working on at the moment are translation. So you can translate the content from one language to another in one click. Other things, like generating media, videos, assets, and images from within the CMS. I think that's really where the future is, it's the identic CMS, if I can say, where you can really plug your CMS and build your websites within seconds."
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