Build Beautiful Things
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Acorn enables you to pursue ambitious goals.
Build a fully customized and balanced digital platform without compromise.
Because it is open source at its core, there is never any confusion about how things work. Want to know how a component is implemented, check the source code. Need to extend a core piece of functionality, you can.
Create and preview content across many channels.
Modern websites and applications have to provide content to many different types of channels including desktop, mobile web and applications, and specialty devices such as kiosks. Through its libraries and APIs, Acorn provides a consolidated pool of content that can be consumed in a uniform way from every channel in your distribution pipeline.
Add personalization and individual optimization.
Because Acorn connects content and user data while also integrating with powerful machine learning tools such as SciKit Learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch; it is possible to personalize each user's experience in unique and highly optimized ways.
Sky's the Limit
Acorn's data model allows you to create unique, powerful content on any platform and incorporate nearly any type of asset.
Create rich layouts using content blocks.
Acorn provides Streamfield, a sequence of content "blocks" that can be rearranged as needed.
Open, extensible, searchable.
Acorn is designed to connect all your content and data via its open architecture, powerful APIs, and micro-service oriented connector apps. Everything is available and discoverable via a unified search.
Engage Your Audience
Engaging with your audience will create customers, nurturing existing relationships will create fanatics.
Discuss and Comment
Comments allow your audience to communicate with you and other readers, providing input on a topic, opportunities to ask questions, or to give feedback.
All Things in Moderation
Built-in machine learning models prevent spam and allow you to automatically monitor for hate speech, threatening comments, and general sentiment.
Hear and Understand Customers
Forms enable you to start conversations and solicit feedback, giving you a picture of how customers engage with your content and brand.
Connect and Integrate
Events and hooks built into the platform allow you to bring outside resources in, and to export data out.
Something for Everyone
Acorn is packed with features that make everyone more productive.
Search Engine Optimization
Acorn has SEO best practices all taken care of. Tags, open graph, structured data, sitemap, and even AMP pages are built-in. You just add your content.
Workflows
Design editorial workflows and ensure quality by creating limited accounts for editors or moderators, and approving content changes before they are published.
Scheduled Publishing
Get ahead by scheduling when content will become available. Post updates or create new pages, and schedule when they will appear for your audience.
Revision History
Track the evolution of your site, understand what edits were made and who made them. Compare versions and undo changes.
Always Look Your Best
Acorn optimizes your images on demand. Upload a high resolution image and set a focal point, new versions will be created as needed to ensure that they look sharp and load quickly.
Rich Content Types
Create beautiful, mobile-friend content using column based layouts, text, buttons, images, videos, cards, carousels, and more with the powerful grid system of Foundation for Sites.
Build Better Websites
A brief (opinionated) how-to.
Start with Python.
Python is everywhere and powers some of the most popular services in the world including YouTube, Instagram, Redit, and Spotify. It has a concise syntax and empowers you to build anything you can imagine.
Energize with Wagtail.
Wagtail is a content management system with an intuitive navigation and architecture, beautiful administrative backend, and powerful image editing capabilities.
Engage with machine learning.
Acorn ships with Sci-Kit Learn and OpenCV integrated. This means that machine learning and computer vision applications can be coded quickly and efficiently.
Supercharge with Vue.js, React, or Angular.
Build single page applications (SPA) that render instantaneously, use fewer server resources, and enable native-like experiences within the browser.
Go Farther With Acorn
Powering Data Applications
Mountain Luxury Compass
Acorn is used as the foundation for complex data driven platforms like Mountain Luxury Compass.
The Platform
Mountain Luxury Compass is a next generation real-estate platform. It empowers agents to become trusted advisors, facilitating access to the most up-to-date data so that clients can make smart real-estate decisions.
Features
- Advanced community aware home and listing search.
- Integration with advanced mapping technologies which allow buyers and sellers to explore homes, neighborhoods and communities.
- Comprehensive data about schools, community features, recreation opportunities, and regional history.
Focus on Community
Compass includes a comprehensive database of mountain communities and their amenities.
Location Aware
Access to community amenities -- such as ski-resorts, schools, trails, and parks -- are part of search results.
Both Person and Machine Savvy
Real-Estate and Content
Compass combines a world-class content platform with a geolocation-aware, AI augmented search to create a state of the art experience.
Engage and Understand
Compass allows users of the platform to engage with immersive technologies such as three-dimensional maps and augmented reality to understand what it might be like to live in a home and the surrounding community.
