Born from a belief in digital freedom.
Dropsolid started with two founders and a clear ambition: to combine digital expertise with open-source technology and build a platform that organizations could truly control.
What began with Drupal projects evolved into cloud infrastructure, digital experience technology and AI. Each step built on the same long-term approach to technology and business.
Building on open source since 2013.
Dropsolid was founded on March 28, 2013, by Steven Pepermans and Dominique De Cooman. Having worked together as consultants, they combined their experience in digital strategy, UX and Drupal to build a company focused on open-source digital experiences.
Their ambition went beyond delivering customer projects. From the outset, the business plan included developing proprietary platform capabilities built on open-source technology, with a long-term approach to growth.
From customer projects to platform technology
Dropsolid began with Drupal development, consultancy and training. Working alongside customers such as Boerenbond, Soudal and UZA helped us build expertise while addressing increasingly complex digital needs.
Within five years, the team grew from two to 65 people. In 2017, we established a dedicated R&D team and accelerated development of our cloud platform. Initiatives such as Cooldrops demonstrated how reusable technology could support both smaller businesses and larger organizations.
From CMS to Digital Experience Platform
Dropsolid Experience Cloud evolved from a Drupal-based cloud platform for DevOps, hosting and website operations into a full Digital Experience Platform (DXP). By integrating open-source technologies such as Mautic for marketing automation and Apache Unomi for customer data management, Dropsolid expanded beyond content management to offer a more integrated digital experience platform.
The platform was developed to make advanced digital capabilities accessible to organizations of different sizes, without compromising their independence or control over their technology.
As the technology matured, Experience Cloud evolved into Dropsolid Experience Platform, extending beyond cloud hosting to support more flexible deployment options, including hybrid and on-premises environments.
The Digital Experience Company
Dropsolid is uniquely positioned as an independent player, with its foundations in its values and strengths in digital experience strategy and technology. Because we remained focused on our capabilities, our company is one company and one team with everyone on the same page. We bring services and products that deliver more value for money and customer satisfaction in speed and agility than silo group companies.
Our multidisciplinary teams deliver strategy, UX, design, development, managed services, platform capabilities, consulting and training to a wide range of verticals. We know our clients and we know their business and ecosystems. Our clients are loyal to us because we are focused on their business. We can truly connect by being one company and one team that not only comes up with the winning strategy, but also executes and supports the solutions with high quality.
Bringing Drupal into the AI era
Drupal's structured content, permissions and workflows have long made it suitable for complex digital platforms. Today, those capabilities also provide a strong foundation for AI applications that need access to enterprise information within defined governance rules.
In 2025, Dropsolid became one of five founding companies of the Drupal AI Initiative, contributing expertise and resources to accelerate open-source AI development.
That same year, we established Dropsolid AI alongside Dropsolid Solutions, giving our platform technology and enterprise services dedicated room to develop.
Two specialized companies. One shared foundation.
Today, Dropsolid operates through two specialized businesses, building on more than a decade of experience in Drupal, open-source technology and digital experiences.
Dropsolid Solutions helps organizations design, build and operate complex digital platforms, combining strategy, UX, engineering and managed services.
Dropsolid AI develops open platform technology that brings together Drupal infrastructure, governance and AI-powered capabilities, with a focus on European digital sovereignty.
Both continue the original ambition to build open technology that gives organizations more control over their digital future.
Milestones
Our growth has been backed by continued investment in technology, security and the open-source community. In 2024, we achieved ISO 27001 certification and became a Platinum Drupal Partner.
Our contributions to Drupal continued to grow, taking us from Diamond Partner in 2025 to Top Tier in 2026, the highest level of Drupal's Certified Partner Program. In parallel, Dropsolid AI received a €603,540 VLAIO innovation grant to support research into sovereign AI agents.
Each milestone represents a different part of our development: technical expertise, security management, contributions to open source and investment in the next generation of digital experiences.
See what we're building today
From complex Drupal platforms to digital experiences powered by AI, explore how we put our expertise into practice for organizations across different sectors.
