Founder of a listed tool
Magnus Hillestad
Co-founder and CEO, named behind the Sanity listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Magnus builds
Sanity BB · CMS & website publishing
Sanity is a hosted headless CMS. Content is stored as JSON documents in the Content Lake, queried with GROQ and edited in the open-source Sanity Studio. Agents reach it through the HTTP API or the hosted MCP server at mcp.sanity.io.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Even Westvang Co-founder; product work
- Simen Svale Skogsrud Co-founder and CTO
Questions
Who is Magnus Hillestad?
Magnus Hillestad is co-founder and CEO of Sanity, the content platform. He was previously a director at the private equity firm EQT Partners and worked in corporate finance and M&A at Arctic Securities. Opening Sanity's Everything NYC 2026 keynote, he argued that agents need content with the audit trail, security and compliance that human teams rely on.
What does Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS make?
Anchor Terminal lists Sanity from Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS. Sanity is a hosted headless CMS. Content is stored as JSON documents in the Content Lake, queried with GROQ and edited in the open-source Sanity Studio. Agents reach it through the HTTP API or the hosted MCP server at mcp.sanity.io.
How are Magnus's tools graded?
Sanity is graded BB, 73.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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