As you said that it looks like it gets the web database not the master. If you post the whole `GetLayoutItem<T>()` methond then I can add a more precise answer, but it looks like that something wrong in that method.

### Possible reason

I assume that you initialize somewhere an `ISitecoreContext` object and you use the `GetItem<T>()` method of `ISitecoreContext`. Could be that you initialize it as a Singleton if you are using IOC. But it should be at least `LifestylePerWebRequest` because if you call the `new SitecoreContext()` without parameters then it's using the context database. So if it's a Singleton then it uses always that database which was the context initially.

These are just assumptions but could be helpful if you have this case.