Vardot Becomes a Top Tier Drupal Certified Partner
How Vardot Earned Top Tier
The Drupal Certified Partner Program scores organizations by weighted contribution credits: issue fixes, code, case studies, and other work, weighted toward the parts of Drupal that need it most. Its six tiers run from Bronze at 150 credits to Top Tier at 12,000, with Diamond at 5,000 directly below, according to the Drupal Association.
Vardot's credits come from work across the Drupal stack. Over the past year, Drupal.org credits Vardot on 83 Drupal core issues and 66 issues in the Drupal AI module, plus hundreds more across Varbase and its components:
- Drupal core: fixes and improvements to the codebase every Drupal site runs on. Vardot also sponsors a Drupal core release manager.
- Drupal CMS: Vardot maintains and leads the Content Publishing track.
- Drupal AI: contributions across the AI module and AI Agents, including a developer assigned full-time to Drupal AI, as part of Vardot's Gold Sponsorship of the Drupal AI Initiative.
- Varbase: Vardot's open-source, AI-powered Drupal CMS, maintained in the open on Drupal.org.
- People: a Drupal Ambassador and six contributed-project maintainers on staff, three of them also mentors.
Vardot's contributed modules have been downloaded more than 250,000 times. The full record is public on Vardot's Drupal.org profile.
"You cannot buy a contribution history; you can only earn one over the years,"
Said Mohammed J. Razem, CEO of Vardot. For clients, he argues, that record matters because "an agency with core credits has patched the thing your platform runs on."
What Top Tier Means for Organizations on Drupal
For teams choosing a Drupal partner, the tier is a check they can verify on Drupal.org, not a claim on a sales deck. It shows three things:
- Fixes go upstream. Issues found on client platforms get solved in Drupal core and contributed modules, so clients aren't left carrying custom patches. The same approach runs through Vardot's Drupal support and maintenance.
- Early sight of what's next. Vardot engineers work on Drupal CMS and Drupal AI as they're built, and bring that knowledge to client roadmaps and Drupal AI projects.
- Long-term commitment. The tier is re-evaluated every year, so holding it takes sustained contribution, not a one-off push.
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Vardot will keep contributing at this level across Drupal core, Drupal CMS, Drupal AI, and Varbase. Planning a Drupal build, migration or support transition? Talk to Vardot.
About Vardot
Vardot is a global digital agency building enterprise open-source web platforms and AI-driven solutions on Drupal. Since 2011, Vardot has launched 200+ platforms for intergovernmental, nonprofit, higher education, media, and enterprise organizations. Vardot maintains Varbase, an AI-powered Drupal CMS, is a Gold Sponsor of the Drupal AI Initiative, and holds a 4.9/5 rating on Clutch.