Stop wrestling with HTML-to-PDF layouts. Learn how to integrate the PDFMe visual Designer & Form into PayloadCMS, allowing users to design templates and fill placeholders through interactive forms for seamless document generation.

Learn how we built a multi-domain lead gen engine using PayloadCMS, Next.js, and next-intl. Discover how financial advisors can launch custom, localized "zero-code" marketing sites with integrated forms on their own domains.

Payload’s built-in authentication is fine for CMS users but falls short for SaaS apps—it only supports email/password login and doesn’t handle social providers or external sessions. In this post, I show how I replaced Payload’s local auth with Better Auth, enabling social login, external session management, and role assignments, while keeping Payload as the source of truth for users. This approach lets you build a SaaS-ready authentication system without giving up Payload’s RBAC and access control.

A technical breakdown of how we use Payload CMS and the Vercel AI SDK to build AI-native FinSureTech applications at InnoPeak—from prompt management and structured outputs to embeddings, background AI workflows, and production-grade introspection for advisory tools.

At InnoPeak, we use a schema-first approach for Finly’s GraphQL API, relying on GQLGen to generate models, enums, and resolver stubs while keeping the focus on a clean, expressive graph. To cut down on duplication, we introduced a complementary code-first layer that generates model and enum definitions automatically—allowing us to concentrate on shaping the rest of the graph.