Work · Case study
One platform, many countries, and a new microsite that takes days, not quarters.
01 / Challenge
Firms selling assurance and compliance services against standards like ISAE, SOC, PS 951 and C5 had no unified way to present them across markets and languages. Content changes needed a developer, discoverability for the standards themselves was weak, and structure and messaging drifted between countries — so each new market started from a blank page.
02 / Approach
A shared Drupal base distribution carries the architecture, and each site inherits it. Content types for services, case studies, courses, FAQs and resources are defined once; navigation patterns including mega menus are reusable; and region-specific theming sits over shared base components so a market can look like itself without forking the platform.
SEO was built into the platform rather than added per site. Metatags, redirects and sitemaps ship with the base, alongside analytics and tag management, so a new microsite is discoverable on the day it launches instead of after someone remembers to configure it.
Development is configuration-driven and version-controlled, with DDEV giving every developer the same environment as production. That is what makes a small team — one to three Drupal developers with part-time QA and DevOps shared across sites — able to run a multi-site estate at all.
03 / Outcome
shared content types
base distribution, many sites
New assurance and compliance landing pages and microsites launch faster because the platform arrives with the structure, the SEO layer and the lead forms already in place. Non-technical teams create and manage pages and campaigns independently, which removed most routine developer involvement, and caching with asset aggregation improved load times across the estate.