01
Models
A content model is an operating model. Types, references, and constraints decide whether people can publish without waiting on a developer.
01/Content operations
Ryan Mills/Staff Content Operations Architect at Sanity
Content systems people can actually operate.
I work on content models, workflows, and governance for teams using Sanity. I’m a Staff Content Operations Architect at Sanity, and I write here about the practice of content operations.
02/How I think
02
Governance
Who can change what, and when it goes live, matters as much as the schema. Scale usually fails in the handoffs, not the diagram.
03
Workflows
The useful system is the one a team can run on an ordinary Tuesday. I care about the path from brief to published.
04
Working with AI
Agents raise the stakes on people, process, and technology. Structured content is what makes that work reviewable.
03/Writing
No essays published yet. New writing will be listed here.
04/Earlier work
Selected names from earlier agency and consulting work, before Sanity.
- Microsoft
- AKQA
- Ogilvy
- Razorfish
- The Marketing Store
- Xbox
- Unilever
- McDonald’s
- Select Model Management
- SNYDER
- SLVRLAKE
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