Ask HN: Anyone use an external tool to maintain contentful?

I'm finding the way our contentful environment has been set up to be less than enticing, in fact it feels like an unmaintainable swamp. This is probably our fault but we have a bunch of content that is simply 'boilerplate' to put other content together. I would like to do something to maintain this boilerplate outside contentful and wondering if anyone has had to do something like and written up their experiences, what tools were used etc.