Axelerant

We design, build, and operate Drupal-centric digital experience ecosystems, composable, governed, and AI-ready.

For 14+ years, Axelerant has partnered with ambitious organizations to turn Drupal into a strategic platform, not just a CMS. We focus on the outcomes Drupal helps you achieve: resilient multi-site estates, faster regional rollouts, governed content at scale, measurable conversions, and digital experiences that evolve with your business.

We treat launch as the start of a multi-year program, not a finish line.

About Axelerant

Axelerant is a Diamond Drupal Certified Partner, 2025 Acquia Partner of the Year (Top Technical Excellence), and Drupal AI Gold Sponsor. We’re a distributed digital experience agency of 200+ people across six countries, combining platform strategy, product design, and deep Drupal engineering under one roof.

Our approach is outcome-oriented: we help organizations clarify their platform operating model, modernize and consolidate Drupal estates, build governance and editorial systems that scale, and operate platforms with accessibility, performance, and continuous improvement built in. That long-term focus is how we’ve sustained complex, multi-brand programs across 80+ enterprise engagements.

Axelerant is an AI-native Drupal engineering and delivery partner. We don’t experiment with AI on the side, it runs through our daily delivery on live customer projects. The Drupal SDLC plugin is the proof. It’s an open-source plugin that takes a ticket and runs the full lifecycle, spec, code, tests, review, and PR, with our engineers in the driver’s seat. We use it on every Drupal project we deliver. Watch The Demo to see it run end-to-end, then install it from GitHub in five minutes and try it on your own backlog.

What We Do — Drupal-First Services

• Platform Strategy & Governance: Content models, editorial standards, taxonomy programs, and governance frameworks that make content reusable, discoverable, and safe for automation.
• Drupal Migrations & Modernization: Incremental migration approaches, content-first rearchitectures, minimal-freeze strategies, and large-estate upgrades to modern Drupal releases (9 / 10 / 11). 40+ migration projects delivered.
• Composable DXPs with Drupal at the Core: We position Drupal as the structured content and governance layer, connected to CDPs, DAMs, CRMs, marketing stacks, and front-end Experience Builders for omnichannel delivery.
• Decoupled, Hybrid & Headless Drupal: API design, caching and edge strategies, and operational patterns for headless or hybrid front ends at scale.
• AI-Readiness & Content Governance: We prepare content, metadata, and governance so Drupal can safely power LLM-driven features, search, assistants, generation, without rebuilds. We run AI-readiness assessments and operationalize AI on top of Drupal content foundations.
• Platform Engineering & Operations: CI/CD, SRE patterns, performance hardening, accessibility remediation, observability, and an operating model that keeps teams shipping safely after go-live.

By the Numbers

Recent Drupal Work

• Kohler: Global Drupal platform engineering and modernization. Case study featured on the Drupal homepage (new.drupal.org).
• GovCMS Australia (with Acquia): Staff augmentation for a world-first government-sector initiative. 80–100% green code coverage achieved in Phase 1; engagement running through 2027.
• American Medical Association (AMA): WordPress-to-Drupal consolidation and migration with accessibility and SEO remediation.
• IRONMAN: Governance-first DXP consolidation and multi-brand Drupal platform program.
• University of East London: Composable DXP and conversion-led Drupal migration.
• PADI: Drupal-led digital overhaul including brand consolidation, CRO, and enterprise integrations.
• County of Riverside: Public-sector multi-site modernization on Drupal.
• Doctors Without Borders / MSF: Migration and transformation projects.

Community Contributions

We contribute code, people, and time to make Drupal stronger, not as a side activity, but as a core part of how we operate.

• Code & Maintenance. We maintain 104 projects on Drupal.org, contribute actively to the issue queue, and have accumulated 390+ core commits over our history with Drupal.
• Drupal AI & Canvas. As a Drupal AI Gold Sponsor, we have dedicated engineers contributing to the Drupal AI initiative and Drupal Canvas, helping keep Drupal production-ready for AI-powered use cases.
• Events & Sprints. We sponsor and speak at DrupalCons, DrupalCamps, and community events globally. We run contribution sprints and train new contributors. Upcoming: DrupalCon Chicago 2026 and LocalGov Drupal Camp 2026.
• Publishing & Learning. Technical how-tos, case studies, and tutorials published on our Team Blog and Drupal.org, sharing patterns from real engagements with the broader community.
• Leadership. Piyush Poddar, Director of Sales & Partnerships, serves on the Drupal Association Board. Axelerant is a founding member of the Drupal India Association.

Client Quote

We don’t often see this level of detail and rigor. Together, we’ve been able to deliver complex Drupal projects very quickly. — Sam Zimmerman, Blue State

Brands You’ll Recognize

IRONMAN · Kohler · American Medical Association · PADI · University of East London

County of Riverside · Doctors Without Borders / MSF · Union Coop · Race Forward

Legacy.com · Xponential Fitness · Blue State · Condé Nast

Red Hat · Stanford University · The United Nations

Diamond Drupal Certified Partner · 2025 Acquia Partner of the Year · Drupal AI Gold Sponsor · Premium Supporting Partner, Drupal Association