How to Try Concrete CMS or Get a Demo

Concrete CMS offers two direct paths on its website: a Try it Now entry for hands-on exploration and a Schedule Demo option for a guided walkthrough. Use the trial when you want to click through the editing experience yourself; book a demo when you need help deciding whether Concrete CMS belongs on your shortlist and want to describe your project to the team.

Try Concrete CMS Yourself

The site presents a Try it Now! call to action alongside its product overview. This is the fastest way to see how the system behaves before involving anyone else.

What to expect based on the site's own description of the product:

• WYSIWYG editing directly on the webpage — you edit content in place rather than through a detached admin form.
• Comprehensive built-in features that the site says solve most needs without extensions, so a trial doesn't immediately push you toward add-ons.
• A short learning curve — Concrete CMS states that editors become proficient within moments, which is worth testing against your own content types.

A practical way to use a trial: bring one real page you'd actually publish — a product page, a policy page, or a news post — and try to build it end to end. That tells you more than clicking through sample content.

Schedule a Demo

The site provides a Schedule Demo flow. Its stated purpose is twofold: tell the team a bit about your project, and get help deciding whether Concrete CMS should be on your shortlist. The site also frames the demo around a specific pain point — "You need a CMS that saves you time."

Before booking, it helps to have ready:

• The type of site you're building (marketing site, intranet, portal, and so on).
• Who will edit content and how many people need access.
• Any compliance or hosting constraints your organization has.

That last point matters because the site ties compliance directly to hosting choices — see below.

What You Can Evaluate During a Trial or Demo

Editing and content creation

Concrete CMS emphasizes in-context editing: content creators, designers, and developers build, author, and publish content, with editors working directly on the page. The site claims editors become proficient quickly and that the system is pleasant enough for authors that "our content is fresher" — a quote attributed to Stefan Glut, Online Communications Officer at BASF Corporation.

Collaboration and permissions

If your team has approval steps, this is worth probing in a demo. The site describes:

• Roles and groups for controlled access down to the individual block of text.
• Advanced permissions that can be fine-tuned per feature.
• Workflow content approvals for quality assurance.
• Change logs that track edits.
• Version control to review, compare, and revert.

Security and compliance

The site states that Concrete CMS ships with out-of-the-box ISO:27001 certified security, and that SOC 2 and HIPAA compliant hosting are available. It also notes the U.S. Army selected Concrete CMS for stringent security needs, and that hosting can be tailored to specific organizational compliance requirements.

Note the distinction: certification and compliance claims attach to the product and to hosting arrangements respectively. If your organization has a specific regulatory obligation, raise it during the demo rather than assuming a default configuration covers it.

Learn From Existing Users Before You Commit

Two low-effort sources on the site:

• Customer reviews and testimonials. The site links to a reviews section and quotes named practitioners, including Ben Dickie, Research Director for Enterprise Applications at Info-Tech Research Group, who describes Concrete as pairing robust functionality with ease of use and a low cost of deployment.
• The blog. Recent posts cover community town halls, marketplace add-ons, and new tooling — for example, a July 2026 post on "Atlas" and an MCP Server built by Macareux Digital, and a post comparing intranets versus dealer portals for manufacturing companies. These give a sense of what teams actually build and where the ecosystem is heading.

Quick Comparison: Trial vs. Demo

If you already know you like in-context editing, start with the trial. If you're weighing Concrete CMS against other systems and need to justify the choice internally, the demo plus the customer reviews will serve you better.