Meet Flino: The AI-Native Headless CMS Foundation
Understand how Flino Core runs 100% inside your own Cloudflare account, combining Collections + Items, WikiLinks, Core Plugins Switch, and AI CLI.
Why Flino exists
In the era of AI coding (Vibe Coding), tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex let anyone generate bespoke site frontends in minutes. Yet building and maintaining a reliable backend from scratch with AI—admin UI, media storage, spam-protected forms, member authentication, analytics, and idempotent payment webhooks—wastes tokens and breaks easily.
Flino occupies a clear niche: "Let AI freely craft bespoke frontends. Leave the mission-critical CMS admin, member auth, analytics, and commerce checkout to Flino—ready out of the box."
100% inside your own Cloudflare account
Through console.flino.ai, a single Cloudflare OAuth authorization (or API Token) automatically provisions and binds your Worker, D1 database, R2 bucket, and KV namespaces inside your own Cloudflare account.
All articles, form inquiries, member profiles, products, orders, and payment secrets live 100% in your Cloudflare account. Flino Console only delivers signed releases and quota leases—it never hosts or reads your business data.
If a subscription expires, your live sites and Cloudflare D1/R2 data remain online and intact; only the CMS admin enters read-only mode until renewed.
Four Obsidian-inspired design pillars
- Everything is an Item: Pages, blog posts, data directories, form inquiries, comments, and products share one unified Collection + Properties + Markdown model
- Bi-directional [[WikiLinks]]: Reference [[collection:slug]] inside Markdown to inline product cards or forms via API and track Backlinks in admin
- Core Plugins Switch: Built-in free plugins (Pages, Collections, Forms, Comments, Auth & Members, Analytics) plus the optional paid Commerce add-on
- File over App & AI CLI: Map schemas and items to local Markdown + YAML Frontmatter trees so AI agents can model and publish content in batches
Unified portal: Flino Console
Every user starts at console.flino.ai. Self-registration grants a 15-day full-featured trial (the timer only starts after your first successful deployment) including 1 base site quota and full Commerce plugin access.