Spacefast Agency
The development team behind your Spacefast sites and apps.
Spacefast can put a page, a prototype, or a small app at a live link in minutes, but checking that it is accessible, secure, and ready for the public is still someone’s job. COLAB builds React front ends, small apps, and campaign sites on Spacefast, and we take prototypes made with AI tools the rest of the way to production. We work with healthcare systems, credit unions, nonprofits, and member organizations that want the speed of a new platform with a development team accountable for what goes live.
Who we work with on Spacefast
Most organizations that come to us about Spacefast already have something built, or a date by which something has to exist.
- Marketing and communications teams with a prototype built in Claude, ChatGPT, or another AI tool that now needs to face the public
- Healthcare systems, credit unions, and nonprofits with a campaign, event, or announcement that has a fixed date
- Organizations planning a React or Next.js front end for content their editors manage in WordPress
- Teams that need a small tool, such as a calculator, an intake form, or a member sign-up, that does not justify a full application platform
- Staff publishing reports, dashboards, and drafts that should stay visible only to colleagues or a few reviewers
- In-house developers who want an outside team to review, harden, or support what they have published
What we do on Spacefast
Scope varies by engagement. Most start with one of these and add others once the first space is live.
Front ends for your CMS
React and Next.js front ends that read content from WordPress through its REST API, deployed to Spacefast from Git with a preview build for each branch. Editors keep publishing in the CMS they already know.
Microsites, events, and announcements
Campaign sites, event pages, and announcement pages on their own domain or subdomain, reviewed privately with stakeholders and released on a schedule separate from your main website.
Prototype to production
We review what the AI tool generated, then refactor or rebuild it with attention to dependencies, form handling, credentials, accessibility, and what happens when something fails. You keep the idea and the momentum, and the code becomes something a developer can maintain.
Ongoing Support
Dependency updates, access reviews, monitoring, and fixes after launch, on a retainer sized to how many spaces you run and how often they change.
Small apps and tools
Calculators, intake forms, member tools, and internal dashboards that use the database, sign-in, file uploads, and transactional email included with each space, connected to your CRM or other systems where needed.
Accessibility
WCAG review and remediation before a space goes public. Generated interfaces commonly miss form labels, focus order, and color contrast, so those are the first things we check.
Why teams pair COLAB with Spacefast
Publishing takes a minute now. Deciding what should be published, and keeping it working after it goes live, still takes people who know the work.
- Early adopters. We adopted Spacefast just after its launch and have enjoyed working with it ever since. We run internal tools on it and publish our own prototypes and drafts there for review, and its capabilities impressed us enough to recommend it to clients.
- The CMS work is already ours. We build and support WordPress, Drupal, and headless CMS sites, so a Spacefast front end or microsite can draw on the content, design, and analytics of the site you already have.
- Production standards for AI-built work. Prototypes go through the same code review, accessibility testing, and documentation as the rest of our development work.
- One accountable team. We manage the Spacefast team, domains, and access alongside the code, and you have one team to call when something breaks.
- Your organization owns it. Spaces sit in an account your organization controls, source lives in your repository, and the documentation covers access, domains, and how to publish.
[Spacefast is] what I think is the future of WordPress and AI.
Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic
Why we recommend Spacefast
Spacefast is a publishing platform for sites and small apps, including the work people now build with AI agents. It comes from Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and Tumblr, and that track record is a large part of why we recommend it. Spacefast runs on WP Cloud, the same infrastructure that hosts WordPress.com and Pressable sites, so each space gets enterprise hosting from the first publish: an edge network, managed HTTPS, and a stable foundation it shares with those platforms. It suits projects that need to go live soon, stay private during review, and roll back without drama when something goes wrong.
Private until you open it
New spaces are visible only to your team. Access can go to named people, a share link with an expiry, a password, or the public, and each grant can be revoked.
Every publish is a version
Each publish creates its own version with its own address. Rolling back moves the live site to an earlier version without a rebuild.
Feedback on the page
Reviewers pin comments to a spot on the page, then reply and resolve them there, which shortens review on prototypes and campaign pages.
App services included
A database, sign-in, file uploads, transactional email, and Akismet spam screening come with the platform, which keeps a small tool from turning into five vendor accounts.
Git and agents in one place
Developers deploy from GitHub with a preview build for each branch. Agents in Claude or ChatGPT can publish to the same space through Spacefast’s MCP server.
Traffic counts without a tracker
Views, visitors, and top pages are counted at the edge, with no script in the visitor’s browser and no cookie.
Who handles what
A platform that publishes in seconds makes it easy to lose track of who is responsible for what went live. Here is how we split the work.
| Area | Spacefast handles | COLAB handles |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting and delivery | WP Cloud infrastructure, edge network, managed HTTPS, and cached delivery | Domain and DNS setup, and deciding what gets published where |
| Builds and deploys | Framework detection, builds from Git, and preview builds for branches | Repository structure, build configuration, release process, and QA before anything goes live |
| Versions | A saved version for each publish and rollback without a rebuild | Deciding when to promote or roll back, and keeping release notes |
| Access | Grants for people, teams, share links, passwords, and SSO | Access policy, reviewer setup, and periodic access reviews |
| App services | Database, sign-in, uploads, transactional email, and Akismet spam screening | Data model, application code, and connections to your CRM or other systems |
| Code quality | Runs what is published | Code review, accessibility testing, security review, and documentation |
| Support | Platform documentation and status | Roadmap, updates, fixes, and the work inside each space |
When to bring in a Spacefast agency
If two or three of these describe where you are, a conversation is probably worth having.
- Someone on your team built a prototype with an AI tool, and leadership wants it in front of the public
- A campaign, event, or announcement has a date, and the main website’s release schedule cannot absorb it
- You have published several spaces and nobody is sure who has access to which
- A tool you published now needs to collect personal information, handle sign-ins, or connect to another system
- You want a React front end for your WordPress content and do not have front-end developers on staff
- An accessibility, security, or privacy review has flagged something already live
Spacefast Questions
We adopted Spacefast just after its launch in September 2026 and have used it ever since. We run internal tools on it and publish prototypes and drafts for review inside COLAB, and that hands-on experience is what we bring to client work.
WP Cloud, the hosting infrastructure that runs WordPress.com and Pressable. Spacefast adds publishing, builds, caching, and managed HTTPS on top of it, so a campaign page or small app gets the same enterprise hosting as a large WordPress site with no server setup on your side. For apps that store personal or regulated information, we review the platform’s terms and data handling with you before recommending it.
Yes. We start by reviewing the code the tool produced, looking at dependencies, how it handles data and credentials, accessibility, and how it behaves when something fails. Some prototypes need cleanup. Others are faster to rebuild with the prototype serving as the specification. We tell you which after the review, before any build work starts.
Yes. A Spacefast build can read content from a public WordPress site through the WordPress REST API, and a React or Next.js front end presents it. Editors keep working in WordPress. Content changes appear on the next build, and we set up how builds are triggered as part of the project.
No. We also deploy React and Next.js front ends to Pantheon, Netlify, and Vercel, and we build and support WordPress and Drupal sites on Pantheon, Pressable, Acquia, and WP Engine. Spacefast is what we recommend when a project needs to go live soon, stay private during review, or include a small app without adding another vendor. If it is the wrong fit for your requirements, we will say so.
You do. We can set up and manage a Spacefast team for you, or work inside one your organization owns. The code, content, and domains are yours, and the source lives in a repository you control. Static sites usually move to another host with no code changes. Apps that use Spacefast’s database and runtime take more work to move, and we document what that would involve before you rely on them.
Builds and prototype reviews are scoped as projects, priced by the number of pages and templates, the app features involved, and the condition of any existing code. Support runs as a monthly retainer. Spacefast plans are passed through inside that arrangement without markup. We give you a number after a scoping conversation, because a number before one would be a guess.
Most spaces keep changing after they go live. Campaign pages get updated and retired, tools pick up new features, and some prototypes become products. Support covers dependency updates, access reviews, accessibility checks, fixes, and improvements, at a level set by how much of the work your team wants to own.
Let’s talk about what you want to publish.
Whether you have a prototype ready to share, a date on the calendar, or an idea that needs a first version, a short conversation usually sorts out what the work is. Tell us what you have and where it needs to go.