Check out this month's update to Xperience by Kentico. We made several exciting investments in AI agent-based developer tools along with some features marketers are sure to love, like shareable web page previews and digital commerce discount management. We also now support .NET 10, Microsoft's latest, fastest, most secure version of .NET.

Of course, that's not all, so read on and learn about the updates we've just delivered in Xperience by Kentico.

Bring your content publishing to stakeholders with shareable previews

Xperience by Kentico makes it easy for marketers to design a publishing process that meets the needs of their team and organization using features such as:

That's an impressive list with one caveat - these features are only available to administration users.

How do we bring marketing strategy stakeholders, like CEOs or external consultants, into the content publishing process without requiring them to learn and log into Xperience by Kentico?

Xperience now comes with shareable previews, enabling content marketers to quickly generate a shareable URL that allows anyone to preview the content of any web page managed in a website channel before it's published.

Like the other content publishing features in Xperience, shareable previews give marketers control over the preview URLs by giving them an expiration time or revoking them completely.

Shareable previews are a great addition to the marketer's toolbox, closing the loop on the publishing process and helping marketers move quickly and with confidence.

Drive sales with digital commerce discounts and promotions

We added two big updates to digital commerce in the October 2025 Refresh - price calculation and order creation APIs. These extremely flexible APIs were built from all of our learning, delivering years of commerce technology solutions. They were released as in-preview so we could get early feedback and accommodate the planned discounts and promotion improvement.

This month, catalog and order discounts are now available, along with the already mentioned price and order services are production-ready.

That's right - you can now build Xperience by Kentico driven digital commerce experiences with first-class management for everything you need to launch your store:

Just like our other digital commerce service APIs, the discount APIs are flexible and customizable.

  • Marketers can configure start and end dates for discounts, making seasonal promotions a breeze to set up.

  • Developers can add custom properties to the discount rules, giving marketers control over which products or orders are applicable for a discount, using taxonomies, product attributes, or even specific product selection.

We also give developers a hook into the discount presentation logic so the customer experience displays the promotion in whatever way best helps you drive sales.

If you can't get enough of our digital commerce solution, look out for two more upcoming improvements - generic coupons and digital commerce support for the Kentico migration tool to help with your upgrades to Xperience by Kentico.

Faster headless channel content creation with headless item cloning

We often deliver small UX improvements among the larger Refresh releases, which can easily be missed if you don't read these Refresh blog posts.

For example, did you know you can now Ctrl+click links to navigate around Xperience's administration dashboard?

Over the past year we've added the ability to clone web pages and reusable content items in the Content hub. Since emails have always had a clone feature, only one type of content lacked cloning support.

We've now filled the final gap for headless channel items, giving our customers the same great content management feature across all channel types.

If you have a UX papercut you want us to know about, give us feedback on the Xperience by Kentico roadmap with your scenario and pain point.

Context-informed design with agent guided content modeling

We've had a rich content modeling section and guide in our documentation for quite some time now. Xperience by Kentico developers, project managers, marketing strategists, and campaign managers all benefit from understanding the goals of a well-designed content model.

We even have a dedicated content modeling certification exam to help teams validate their theory and practice.

Content modeling and content design are a rich topic that doesn't have a one-size-fits-all answer. Like so many things in life - it depends.

How can you make sure your content model matches your project strategy, team experience, and content use-cases before you jump into building articles, FAQs, digital assets, emails, and web pages?

December's Refresh brings new AI agent technology to collect the most important context and guide you along your content modeling journey - Xperience's content modeling MCP server.

This MCP server is hosted in our own infrastructure and is meticulously designed to incorporate our best knowledge and take you through a multi-step modeling journey. It can design a content model for brand new (greenfield) projects or validate changes to content structures in an existing Xperience by Kentico solution.

The MCP server has the following features:

  • Orchestrated content modeling workflow: Complete 5-phase workflow with built-in validation and transition logic.

  • Phase-specific prompts: Individual prompts for each workflow phase enabling granular control.

  • Validation tools: Deterministic tools that validate data structure and logic at each phase.

  • Knowledge resources: Comprehensive reference materials including field types, best practices, and examples.

  • Multi-format output: Generates structured JSON content models and markdown documentation (including Mermaid ERD diagrams).

With this MCP server, an AI agent can generate definitions for reusable field schemas, web pages, reusable content items, and taxonomies.

Additionally, generated content type definitions come with fully configured fields using descriptions, validation rules, tooltips, and links to other content types.

Combining our deep content modeling knowledge base with robust validation steps and AI agents means teams can go from project idea to Mermaid.js content architecture designs in just a few minutes.

Agent driven content type management with the content types MCP server

In our effort to speed up content type generation and management by combining it with agentic AI-driven software development, we released a content types MCP server in November's Refresh.

Agents can use the server's tools to introspect content types and a variety of other application configuration to answer developer questions or accurately design widgets leveraging those content types (more on that later!)

The original content types MCP server was read-only - it didn't support content type creation or updates. To fill in the gaps in a truly agentic AI developer workflow, we need a way to take the output of our content modeling MCP server and automate the creation or update of content types in Xperience.

The content types MCP server now supports the create, update, and delete tools needed to enable automated and agentic content type management.

We now include 20 different tools, which include CRUD operations for content types and reusable field schemas.

With a simple prompt we can instruct an agent to add a new reusable field schema field for all web pages, without opening the administration UI and clicking through the content type configuration.

This enables developers to iterate faster, experiment without penalties, and select the best content solution after actually trying it out. It also enables AI agents to implement a content model designed with the content modeling MCP server.

If only AI agents could use those new content types to create Page Builder widgets!

Prompting success with AI agent widget generation

Another piece in the agentic AI puzzle is using the content model implementation, which we created thanks to the other tools mentioned above.

Xperience by Kentico Page Builder widgets combine multiple technologies into a single component:

  • Content types

  • Content retrieval

  • Caching and optimization

  • Customizable presentation options and content selection

  • Razor rendering

  • Semantic HTML and CSS

Widgets also serve several audiences:

  • The marketer using it as a building block of customer experiences

  • The developer, managing the technology complexity for the marketer

  • The visitor, seeing and engaging with the content on a web page

It would seem the intersection of all this technology would make it difficult for an AI agent to generate a functioning widget meeting the requirements of these audiences.

Our strategy to truly realize scenarios, like AI agents building Page Builder widgets, has a name - KentiCopilot. It's a collection of concepts, product improvements, technologies, and tools to help developers get the most out of AI when building Xperience by Kentico projects. To that end, we've created a new repository on GitHub for KentiCopilot.

December's Refresh adds a set of prompts and usage instructions to this repository that developers can drop directly into their projects. Those prompts and instructions are used by AI agents to generate real Page Builder widgets based on specified requirements.

We provide direct support for three popular developer tools - Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot - along with step-by-step instructions to guide you along the way.

The screenshot above showcases what you can create with this KentiCopilot feature: a Product CTA widget for the Dancing Goat sample application, generated from a 43-line requirements Markdown file and a raw HTML template with some pre-defined CSS rules (also agent-generated 😉).

We hope you try it out for yourselves in Dancing Goat and any Xperience by Kentico projects you're currently working on. Let us know what you think - we're very excited about it!

Faster, more secure, and the latest technology with .NET 10

Each year Microsoft releases a new major version of .NET and all related technologies, like ASP.NET Core, which Xperience by Kentico is built on. And each year we officially add support for that new .NET version, giving developers access to improved tools, C# language features, performance, bug fixes, and continuing support from Microsoft.

Twelve months ago we added support for .NET 9 and this month we add support for the recently released .NET 10.

Not only is .NET 10 now supported in the core platform itself, it's also supported in Xperience by Kentico SaaS, which is used by our customers to host, manage, and deploy Xperience projects without the burden of selecting, configuring, and securing that infrastructure themselves.

.NET 10 brings multiple improvements in security and performance along with several other exciting updates:

Update your Xperience by Kentico projects to .NET 10 today!

What's next?

As always, check out our documentation Changelog for the full Refresh feature and technical details.

We hope these new capabilities, features, and API improvements unlock solutions for you. Try them out and let us know 👋 what you think.

What's planned for the next Refresh?

These updates will, as always, accompany a number of UX and developer-focused improvements.

Check back soon for the next Xperience by Kentico Refresh review!

For the technical audience, this Refresh is represented by v31.0.0 of Xperience by Kentico.