diff --git a/microsite-next/src/pages/home/_home.tsx b/microsite-next/src/pages/home/_home.tsx
index a715ee93a9..afc8381ec1 100644
--- a/microsite-next/src/pages/home/_home.tsx
+++ b/microsite-next/src/pages/home/_home.tsx
@@ -169,6 +169,54 @@ export function Home() {
           </div>
         </BannerSection>
 
+        <BannerSection greenGradientBackground>
+          <div className={homeStyles.softwareTemplatesContainer}>
+            <div className="softwareTemplatesTitle">
+              <img
+                src={`${siteConfig.baseUrl}animations/backstage-software-templates-icon-5.gif`}
+                alt="Software Templates Rocket GIF"
+              />
+
+              <h2 className="text--primary">Backstage Software Templates</h2>
+
+              <h1>Standards can set you free</h1>
+            </div>
+
+            <picture className="softwareTemplatesImg">
+              <source
+                srcSet={`${siteConfig.baseUrl}img/cards.png`}
+                media="(min-width: 997px)"
+              />
+              <img src={`${siteConfig.baseUrl}img/service-cards.png`} alt="" />
+            </picture>
+
+            <ContentBlock
+              title="Like automated getting started guides"
+              hasBulletLine
+            >
+              Using templates, engineers can spin up a new microservice with
+              your organization's best practices built-in, right from the start
+            </ContentBlock>
+
+            <ContentBlock title="Push-button deployment" hasBulletLine>
+              Click a button to create a Spring Boot project with your repo
+              automatically configured on GitHub and your CI already running the
+              first build
+            </ContentBlock>
+
+            <ContentBlock title="Built to your standards" hasBulletLine>
+              Go instead of Java? CircleCI instead of Jenkins? Serverless
+              instead of Kubernetes? GCP instead of AWS? Customize your recipes
+              with your best practices baked-in
+            </ContentBlock>
+
+            <ContentBlock title="Golden Paths pave the way" hasBulletLine>
+              When the right way is also the easiest way, engineers get up and
+              running faster — and more safely
+            </ContentBlock>
+          </div>
+        </BannerSection>
+
         <BannerSection greenCallToActionGradientBackground>
           <div className="padding--lg text--center">
             <h1>Build your own software templates</h1>
diff --git a/microsite-next/src/pages/home/home.module.scss b/microsite-next/src/pages/home/home.module.scss
index de15e49140..1cc4ba8238 100644
--- a/microsite-next/src/pages/home/home.module.scss
+++ b/microsite-next/src/pages/home/home.module.scss
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ $desktopUpBreakpoint: 997px;
   }
 }
 
-.catalogContainer {
+// Shared container styles
+.catalogContainer,
+.softwareTemplatesContainer {
   gap: 2rem;
   display: grid;
   align-items: center;
@@ -53,23 +55,41 @@ $desktopUpBreakpoint: 997px;
     text-align: center;
   }
 
-  :global(.catalogTitle) {
+  :global([class*='Title']),
+  :global([class*='title']) {
     img {
       max-width: 190px;
       max-height: 190px;
     }
   }
+}
 
+.catalogContainer {
   @media (min-width: $desktopUpBreakpoint) {
     grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr);
 
     picture {
-      grid-row: 1/3;
-      grid-column: 3/-1;
+      grid-row: span 2;
+      grid-column: span 2;
     }
 
     :global(.catalogTitle) {
-      grid-column: 1/3;
+      grid-column: span 2;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+.softwareTemplatesContainer {
+  @media (min-width: $desktopUpBreakpoint) {
+    grid: repeat(2, auto) / repeat(4, 1fr);
+
+    picture {
+      grid-row-start: 3;
+      grid-column: span 4;
+    }
+
+    :global(.softwareTemplatesTitle) {
+      grid-column: span 4;
     }
   }
 }