Drupal for Media & Publishers
Give every editorial team the speed to publish, grow its audience, and turn more readers into subscribers.
Turn Readers Into Subscribers
"The team was responsive throughout UAT and quick to address feedback and bug reports."
Editorial Operations
Newsroom AI
Tag every story automatically
Natural language processing reads each article and assigns topics and categories as it publishes.
- Keywords extracted from every article
- Tags mapped to your categories
- Older content remapped to new categories
Draft with editor approval
Suggested headlines, summaries, social posts, and metadata that editors review before anything publishes.
- Headline and summary suggestions
- SEO metadata drafts
- Alt text generated on image upload
Learn more: Varbase
Search years of reporting
Readers and journalists find relevant stories across your archive, with answers that cite the original articles.
- Keyword and semantic search combined
- One search across every title in your network
- Answers drawn only from your published content
Learn more: Drupal + AI
Get cited in AI answers
Help ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini find and cite your reporting accurately.
- GEO citation audit
- Schema package and llms.txt
- Citation monitoring
Learn more: AI Discoverability
Control how AI is used
Your team decides who can use AI and on which content, and every action is logged.
- Role-based AI access
- Sensitive content types excluded
- Audit log of prompt, model, and reviewer
- Choice of AI provider
Learn more: Drupal + AI
Agents your editors review
AI agents handle routine platform checks and content routing, and your team reviews the results.
- SEO, accessibility, and privacy scans
- Content routing by topic, language, and region
- Landing page drafts from a brief, ready for review
Learn more: Drupal + AI
How We Help
From auditing your current site to moving your archive and supporting every release after launch.
Multiple Platforms. One CMS.
AI Powered Enterprise CMS
Editorial workflows, flexible page layouts, and AI assistance built into Drupal, so your team spends less time on setup and more on stories.
- Role-based editorial workflows
- Layout Builder for landing pages
- Media library for video, audio, and images
- Multilingual SEO
- AI drafts with editorial approval
Our Latest Work
Cook Political Report: An Acquia Award-Finalist Digital Strategy for U.S. Election Analysis
500 new subscribers in one month after the redesign.
News from 25 affiliates tagged and published automatically.
A redesigned site with the channel streaming in real-time.
Perspectives
How to manage multiple websites without spreadsheets
Managing multiple websites takes more than spreadsheets. Learn the six-step governance approach Vardot uses across hundreds of sites: one inventory, named owners, a written standard, connected code, continuous checks, and tracked evidence, plus how Auditray runs it on any CMS.
Healthcare CMS: Fix or Replace for Section 504 Compliance?
HHS moved the Section 504 web accessibility deadline to May 11, 2027. This guide shows when to fix or replace a healthcare website CMS, where accessibility risk sits, and how Varbase, Vardot’s Drupal distribution, builds accessible authoring into the platform from day one.
Agents Need a Trust Layer. Your Drupal Site May Already Have One
AI agents need enforced limits, human review, and an audit record before they act on a website. Drupal core already provides roles, content moderation, revisions, and structured fields. This article explains where those controls stop, when to keep agents off a site, and a six-point readiness check.
