Broward County, Florida has rebuilt much of its public web presence with a team of four people. Government Technology reported on October 6, 2026 that the county replaced a 15-year-old SharePoint environment holding more than 10,000 web pages with Sitecore, a cloud-based content management platform. The county hasn’t yet published results on whether residents find answers faster.
From 10,000 pages to a handful of skinny sites
Over the years, about 250 county employees had become web authors, each adding pages for their own agency. The new project reduced that group to zero during the transition, then trained staff to use Sitecore. Peter Perez, the county’s digital government manager, led the work with three developers.
The team didn’t migrate all 10,000 pages. Instead it built “skinny sites”: single pages per agency with the critical information and documents, rather than a full copy of the old site. The first ones went live in the first week of August 2026. By late September, about 90 percent of county websites were running on Sitecore, with roughly 1,000 pages on the new platform. The airport site, which gets about 1 million views a month, was prioritized, and the county is using analytics to set priorities. Phase two is to move the internal intranet from SharePoint to Sitecore, with AI expected to play a role.
How the team used Claude
According to the report, the developers wrote the code themselves. They used Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, to help interpret the new platform, troubleshoot code, build components, and review their work for problems. The county also evaluated about 35 AI use cases over the past year and a half. County CIO Domenic DiLullo said, “What’s really remarkable is that Peter’s team is only four people deep.”
Why It Matters to You
If you live in Broward County, the county’s website is meant to become easier to use, with the key information and documents for each agency on one focused page. Much of that is already live, since about 90 percent of county websites were on the new platform by late September. Whether it actually gets you answers faster isn’t known yet. The county’s own goal is that visitors “find what they need in the first 30 seconds,” and it expects a clearer picture by mid-spring.
What the progress figures can’t tell you
That 30-second target is a goal, not a measured result. The site had been live about a month and a half at the time of the report. The figures of “about 90 percent of county websites” and “roughly 1,000 pages” measure migration progress, not user outcomes. The project is described as approved in December with a six-month ramp-up. No figure for total cost was reported, so any comparison with outside consultants is unsupported. One more trade-off: cutting 10,000 pages down to focused ones may help navigation, but it also means some older content is no longer on the site, and the article doesn’t say what happens to it.
Quick answers
Did AI build the Broward website? No. The report says the developers wrote the code and used Claude to interpret the platform, troubleshoot, build components and review their work.
Can residents find things faster now? The county’s goal is 30 seconds, but it hasn’t published results. It expects clearer data by mid-spring.
What happens next? The county plans to move its internal intranet off SharePoint onto Sitecore.