Nathan Saldanha
Global Director, Digital Strategy and Growth at Codehouse | Sitecore MVP
Sydney, Australia
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Nathan Saldanha is the Global Director, Digital Strategy & Growth at Codehouse and a Sitecore Ambassador MVP (2025 & 2026). With Ten years of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 experience, he specialises in crafting compelling business cases for enterprise website rebuilds and Personalisation at scale. Nathan has been part of Sitecore implementations across APAC and North America, including award-winning projects. He is passionate about helping organisations unlock real business value through scalable, future proofed architecture and smart platform strategy.
Area of Expertise
Sitecore Agentic Studio: what to build, what to avoid, and how to know the difference
The arrival of Sitecore Agentic Studio changes the rules. But with any game-changer comes a risk: rushing to build agents for everything, whether they're the right tool or not.
In this session, I'll cut through the noise and give you a practical, honest guide to Agentic Studio, built on real hands-on experience, not just the documentation.
We'll start by demystifying what Agentic Studio actually is. It's still a fast-moving, evolving platform, and the gap between the theory and the reality of building with it is significant. I'll help bridge that gap.
From there, we'll tackle the hardest question practitioners face: is this even an agent problem? Not every workflow benefits from an agentic approach, and identifying the right use cases is a skill in itself. I'll walk you through a structured methodology, including the Codehouse IMPACT framework, to help you qualify use cases confidently, so you invest your time where it actually counts.
Then I'll bring it to life with a real example: a specific agent I built to solve a genuine business problem, walking through the decisions, the build, and the lessons learned.
You'll leave with:
A clear mental model of what Agentic Studio is and how it works today
A repeatable framework for identifying and qualifying agentic use cases
Practical guidance on when not to build an agent and what to do instead
A concrete real-world example to anchor your own first build
Digital Velocity at Enterprise Scale: The 85-Day Sitecore Launch
Flatiron Construction, Dragados USA and Dragados Canada – merged to form FlatironDragados. The new company needed a unified, multilingual Sitecore site live in 85 days.
With evolving brand guidelines and high delivery pressure, Codehouse used XM Cloud and Search to launch more than what was planned in MVP (70% if scope vs 30% initially planned), 7 weeks ahead of schedule and 20% under budget.
This kind of success is generally unheard of in the Digital world.
This session shares how we delivered an amalgamated site quickly, scaled for future growth, and handled last-minute stressful pivots without derailing go-live.
We will share the Business Case, the Delivery Methodology and Lessons Learned (and of course the Success metrics!)
Outline:
Intro and Defining the Problem (4min)
Delivery in Action (4 mins)
This section will take attendees through the delivery rhythm — how sprints were structured, how the teams collaborated (client-side and Codehouse), and how we managed brand guidelines arriving halfway through the build. We’ll share how more than 70% of the total project scope ended up being delivered in the 85-day window, despite the original plan being only 30%. This includes how we handled content migration using XM Cloud, and how the team structured component libraries and templates to enable future scalability (project sites, M&A sites, etc.).
Handling the Unexpected (4 mins)
One week before launch, we encountered a shifting political landscape that required urgent content rewrites and a shift in migration strategy. We’ll show how we managed this pivot without jeopardising the go-live, and the mechanisms we had in place (collaboration, UAT readiness, sprint buffers) that made this possible. Search environment was not commissioned by Sitecore until 2 weeks before golive, Throughout the project we had only One change request - Cookies
Outcomes & Future-Proofing (3 mins)
We'll walk through the outcomes: project delivered ahead of schedule, 20% under budget, and with a very low post-launch defect rate. We’ll share how FlatironDragados is now positioned to scale rapidly — with plans to integrate Sitecore Content Hub Operations and activate personalisation and A/B testing in the next 90 days. The result is a composable, extensible platform built for long-term success.
Custom Build and Accelerators: Two Sitecore XM Cloud Success Stories Compared
Not all Sitecore XM Cloud implementations are created equal — and they shouldn’t be. In this session, Vidya and Nathan will compare two high-profile enterprise projects that delivered extraordinary results, each with a distinct delivery model.
Vidya led both projects end-to-end and was instrumental in ensuring they were delivered on budget and ahead of schedule, despite radically different delivery models, timelines, and business ambitions and constraints.
First, we’ll explore how one of Australia’s largest Engineering-led, construction and natural resources leader, launched its Sitecore XM Cloud and Search platform on budget and many months ahead of schedule — without using an accelerator. We’ll unpack how business alignment, agile UX/design and strong build practices helped achieve velocity without compromising quality. We will talk through challenges faced during delivery. From business case through to launch, it was a study in simplification and massive success.
Then we’ll contrast that with FlatironDragados, a multinational merger of three brands - Flatiron Construction and Dragados USA and Canada, who needed a unified brand presence, new UX/UI & a multilingual website, in just 85 days. Using a proven accelerator framework, Codehouse delivered more than double the original MVP scope — on budget — while managing evolving brand guidelines and geopolitical content pivots just days before go-live.
What did these projects do differently? What were the shared success factors? We’ll examine how business motivation, technical scope, team dynamics, and platform readiness influenced the chosen approach — and how each team used Sitecore XM Cloud's and Search’s composability in their own way to accelerate delivery and maximise long-term value.
Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of when to use an accelerator, when you cant use one, and how to build a business case for both- along with practical lessons in collaboration, governance, and speed-to-value.
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