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07/23/2026

Our July dotDEV is live ⬇️

Highlights: an MCP Server (Beta) that lets Claude Desktop or Cursor build sites, migrate content, and run accessibility reports on dotCMS. Plus three new AI providers in dotAI (Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock), and four new Universal Visual Editor capabilities built to get engineering out of the layout-ticket business.

🟣 Read the full newsletter to find out more.

01 · EDITORIAL Note from our technical writer Jameson Mauro: Last month, dotCMS traipsed the woods; we ran alongside streams cool as winter’s memory, calling and answering with wit and mirth, reveling in the blossom of youth! But one careless footfall into a ring of toadstools can change the tape...

07/16/2026

"Intentional behavior." That's how one AI-powered coding platform described a vulnerability that exposed source code, credentials, and customer data across the apps built on it.

Our Director of Cyber Security, Mehdi Karimi, Ph.D., has a different read: trust without governance, not speed, is the most dangerous default in AI today.
His argument: as AI moves from assistant to infrastructure, writing code, connecting to APIs, touching production systems, governing it like a simple productivity tool isn't enough anymore. Shadow AI isn't a productivity problem. It's a governance problem, and IBM's 2025 breach research backs this up: incidents involving unmanaged AI tools carry a steep added cost.

"Governance should be built into the systems that create, manage and deliver content, not layered on after new tools have already been connected."
Read the full breakdown, including what this means for digital experience and content teams specifically.

🔗 https://www.dotcms.com/blog/the-most-dangerous-default-in-ai-isnt-speed-its-broken-trust

06/28/2026

According to a June 2025 Gartner press release, by 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024. A separate Gartner forecast from August 2025 projects that task-specific AI agents will be in 40% of enterprise apps as early as 2026.

The organizations best positioned for this shift are not the ones with the most AI-enabled functions. They are the ones who build their content infrastructure for use by agents.

As a visual, headless CMS built for compliance-led enterprises, dotCMS AI philosophy is designed with a two-layer architecture where the same governed content, workflows, and APIs that power your editors are exactly what autonomous agents call.

🟣 Read the full architecture brief: https://www.dotcms.com/blog/from-ai-assisted-to-agent-ready-how-dotcms-is-building-for-the-agentic-age

06/24/2026

73% of enterprise AI deployments fail to hit projected ROI. 42% of companies abandoned at least one AI initiative in 2025. The average sunk cost per project that gets dropped is $4.2 million.

The dominant explanation is bad data. But when you look closer, the problem is almost always upstream of the data pipeline. It is content that was never structured for AI. Content that cannot be tagged, governed, or served at the speed modern experiences require.

The model is not the bottleneck. The content infrastructure is. And most enterprises will not figure that out until they have already spent the budget.

🟣 Read the full article: https://www.dotcms.com/blog/two-kinds-of-fdes-one-is-a-sign-of-progress-the-other-is-a-sign-of-failure

06/22/2026

Speed is not the only point of AI.

That's Freddy Montes, dotCMS VP of Product, after months of experimenting with AI, personally and across dotCMS. The ability to move fast is real. But mistaking that for the goal is what he calls "the illusion of speed."

The harder question: how are you actually changing the way you work with AI?

🟣 Read what we wrote about how dotCMS is moving from AI-assisted to agent-ready: https://www.dotcms.com/blog/from-ai-assisted-to-agent-ready-how-dotcms-is-building-for-the-agentic-age

06/16/2026

What makes a front-end framework enterprise-ready?

Marc Boutillette breaks down why Angular earns its place in complex enterprise architectures, and where a headless CMS like dotCMS fills the gaps.

🟣 https://www.dotcms.com/blog/why-enterprises-choose-angular-for-complex-web-applications

06/09/2026

dotDEV June is out.

Java 25 is in. Page Health catches WCAG and GEO issues before you publish. Real-Time Canvas cuts edit time from 45s to under 8. Plus the 2026 roadmap update and three pieces on Angular + dotCMS enterprise architecture.

Dive right in!👇

01 · EDITORIAL From our technical writer, Jamie Mauro, “Plato,” as the philosopher is known, was a nickname meaning “broad-shouldered,” befitting an adept athlete with an impressive physique. That this intellectual titan published under his wrestling moniker imparts a lesson: It’s not eno...

06/07/2026

Enterprise Angular projects need two things: developer control over the front end, and governed content operations behind it.

The dotCMS Angular SDK handles both. Here's how the architecture works.

🟣 https://www.dotcms.com/blog/how-angular-and-dotcms-work-together-in-an-enterprise-web-architecture

06/04/2026

AI may not care about your compliance requirements, which is why your CMS should.

In Episode 14 of 'Real Talk, Real Trust with dotCMS', Freddy Montes (VP Product, dotCMS) breaks down why governance is not optional when you're building AI content workflows for healthcare, finance, or government, and how dotCMS already has the guardrails built in through workflows and audit trails.

🎙️ Watch the full podcast on:

🟣 YouTube: https://youtu.be/MEEFh1Wd6nI
🟣 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4tda7Vtuam6GnbqY2J6dxW
🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/geo-playbook-how-to-win-ai-search-without-losing-your-brand/id1806177020?i=1000758751230

06/01/2026

When was the last time a customer experienced your brand exactly the way you intended it?

Customers experience your brand as one thing. When the pieces don't connect, they feel it, even when they can't say why.

Integrated brand experience is not only about brand guidelines but also about the infrastructure that makes consistency enforceable: approval workflows, governed content, and a platform that does the policing so your team doesn't have to.

We wrote the guide that covers everything about brand experiences: https://www.dotcms.com/blog/guide-to-integrated-brand-experiences