Dropsolid is nu Top Tier Drupal Certified Partner

Dropsolid behoort nu tot de Top Tier van Drupal, een groep van momenteel slechts zeven partners wereldwijd.

Dropsolid is now officially listed at the highest level of the Drupal Certified Partner Program: Top Tier.

We are proud of the badge. But we are even prouder of what it measures.

Top Tier is not a label a company gives itself. The Drupal Certified Partner Program assesses organisations every year on their contribution to Drupal and the community.

The highest level requires at least 12,000 weighted contribution credits per year, alongside the other requirements of the programme. Dropsolid's current profile counts more than 13,000. At the time of publication, only seven organisations are listed as Top Tier. Dropsolid is one of only two headquartered in the European Union.

This status does not replace client references, quality of delivery or trust. It is, however, public proof of how deep our contribution goes and how strongly we are committed to Drupal for the long term. For a company building its future on Drupal, that means a great deal.

Drupal AI is central to that story

Our role as co-founder of the Drupal AI Initiative, and our sustained work within it, form an important part of the story behind this milestone.

It started in April 2025 at Drupal Developer Days in Leuven, where Frederik Wouters, Head of Innovation at Dropsolid, brought the right people together at the right moment. In June, Acquia, Dropsolid, 1xINTERNET, FreelyGive and Salsa Digital officially launched the initiative as the five founding partner companies.

Dominique De Cooman took on the fundraising and business alignment. Niels Aers later shaped the product direction together with Dr. Christoph Breidert of 1xINTERNET. Frederik kept helping build communication and outreach, while colleagues across Dropsolid freed up engineering capacity, product thinking, market insight and time for delivery.

Open source at its best

By October 2025, the initiative had already gathered $1 million in financial commitments and full-time contributors, in barely five months. Dries called it the largest fundraising effort in Drupal's history. Dominique led that effort, helping turn the community's ambition into lasting product and engineering capacity.

This was never an achievement of Dropsolid alone. Jamie Abrahams's original vision, the strategic guidance of Dries Buytaert, the leadership of the other founding partners and the work of contributors from across the community all made it possible. Meanwhile, the initiative has grown to more than 30 partner organisations, and into what Dries calls the largest collaboration between companies in the history of the Drupal community.

The collaboration has delivered far more than plans. The work now includes agent infrastructure that is not tied to one provider, guardrails, observability, context control, AI-assisted content reviews, semantic search and direct answers based on Drupal content. Dropsolid also helps shape the direction for AI Search, and brings lessons from real implementations back to the open ecosystem.

That is open source at its best: organisations that compete in the market work together on the shared foundation that makes the whole ecosystem stronger.

The platform behind this commitment

In July 2025, we founded Dropsolid AI, a new platform company alongside Dropsolid Solutions, the original enterprise services company. We did not take this step to distance ourselves from Drupal. We did it to give both sides of what enterprise Drupal needs today the focus to grow.

Dropsolid AI builds and operates the platform layer: developer tools, managed hosting in the EU within Dropsolid's ISO 27001-certified ISMS, governance across your entire web landscape, edge security and open AI orchestration for Drupal. It supports practical applications such as smart content processes, Trusted Answers, Knowledge Navigator and free choice of AI model.

Dropsolid Solutions provides the experienced enterprise team: strategy, architecture, UX, Drupal engineering, integration, migration, and long-term application support and evolution. Together they form one aligned offering, split across two focused companies: an open European platform, operated by Dropsolid, and an experienced organisation for enterprise projects.

That commitment is backed by concrete investment. In May 2026, Dropsolid AI raised €2.5 million through a mix of private investment, crowdfunding and credit lines. In August, VLAIO awarded €603,540 in innovation support for a two-year, €1.7 million R&D programme on sovereign AI agents for businesses.

The funding, the VLAIO support and the Top Tier recognition are different milestones, awarded for different reasons. Strategically, however, they point in the same direction: continued investment in open technology, practical AI and European digital sovereignty.

From contribution to value for the client

Top Tier only has meaning if the contribution behind it creates value that goes beyond the badge.

For organisations with an ambitious Drupal landscape, it means access to people who do not simply follow the upstream roadmap, but actively help shape it. It means a platform team that understands how hosting, security, governance, content and AI fit together. It means an enterprise team that can handle complex, multilingual, regulated and integrated environments. And it means a path to AI that builds on the content, permissions and workflows organisations already trust.

A home for Drupal in Europe

We do not believe clients should have to give up control to get these capabilities. Code, content and data must remain portable. The choice of AI model must remain open. Integrations and exit scenarios must be documented. European hosting must go hand in hand with European accountability.

That is why our next campaign is called A Home for Drupal in Europe.

A home for Drupal is not simply the place where Drupal is hosted. It is the place where Drupal is built, protected, evolved and made smart.

That can be platform-only, where an organisation's existing team or agency simply stays. It can be co-delivery, where Dropsolid adds platform architecture, specialist capacity or Drupal AI. Or it can be end-to-end, where Dropsolid Solutions and Dropsolid AI take responsibility together.

The principle stays the same: Keep your Drupal. Keep your team. Strengthen the foundation.

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Top Tier raises the bar

Drupal belongs to the global community. We are building one European home for organisations that want to benefit from that community, with continuity of their platform, protection and practical preparation for AI.

Today we celebrate Frederik, Dominique, Niels and every colleague who contributed, the other founding partners, the Drupal Association, the leadership and delivery teams of Drupal AI, and the wider community of contributors.

Top Tier raises the standard we must keep meeting. Recognition follows contribution, and it is our responsibility to keep contributing.

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