We make building & maintaining content-driven websites not suck.

We do things differently.

Statamic is a different kind of CMS. It's designed to be simple to use for content editors, and a joy to work with for developers. It's built on Laravel, the most popular PHP framework in the world, and it's designed to be fast, flexible, and easy to work with.

We are obsessed with user experience. We believe that the experience of the developer building the site is just as important as the experience of the person using the site.

We believe that the best way to build a great product is to build a product that we love to use ourselves. So that's what we did.

We're more than toolkit to help you build websites. We're a team of people who care deeply about the web, about the people who use it, and about the people who build it.

The Statamic Community is our true competitive advantage. Join our Discord chat and you'll be transported back to the good ol' days of the web, back when Twitter was new and people helped each other because kindess given is kindness received.

The Statamic Story Thus Far

In 2012, cofounders Jack McDade and Mubashar Iqbal were fed up with the repetitive and painful task of building and maintaining client websites in a modern CMS without being able to version control the content. They believe most content shouldn't be trapped in a database where you can't see or touch it. It should be in a file you can — if you so choose — open and edit with any text or code editor.

At the time, no one had built a full-featured, flat file content management system. So, treading into Blue Ocean territory, Jack and Mubs set out and accomplished just that. It was important that removing the database from the equation would not sacrifice the types of features they and their clients loved and relied upon.

Fast forward to 2013 and Mubs had moved on. Jack met Jason Varga (who had built a large e-commerce addon for Statamic v1) at a conference. The guys hit it off and Jason ended up joining Jack in 2014 and they set out to build Statamic 2.0 — a complete rewrite on Laravel. It was a hit.

In 2017 Der Spiegel launched their massive new site on Statamic, and we began collaborating with their team on Statamic 3 based on their experience.

In 2018 we launched the Marketplace we hired Jesse Leite full-time and Erin Dalzell part-time.

In 2020 we released Statamic 3 — a big refactor to make Statamic a Composer package able to be dropped into existing Laravel applications. Statamic 3 also introduced the concept of Data Repositories — new ways to store and retrieve data from a database (or anywhere, really) not just flat files.

Joshua Blum joined in 2022 followed by Duncan McClean in 2023. We're now a team of six.

In 2023 we hosted the first Flat Camp in the mountains of North Carolina. It was a huge success and hosted the second Flat Camp in Rome Italy in the summer of 2024.

Today Statamic powers a vast range of websites, from large teams of journalists in top news organizations like TV2 and Der SPIEGEL, to SaaS companies, startups, boostrappers, bloggers, and the small local businesses that make up the backbone of the economy.