DOGHOUSE FACTORY

Lift and shift entire websites. In weeks, not months

Factory analyses your current website, including its content, structure and functionality. Automation lifts it onto modern Drupal, while our team ensures the quality.

How Factory works
Weeks
TO MIGRATE, NOT MONTHS
Automated
THE MECHANICAL WORK, END TO END
Less risk
YOUR WEBSITE IS THE SPEC
Every URL
MAPPED, REDIRECTED OR RETIRED
THE DIFFERENCE

Rebuild outcomes, without the rebuild timeline.

A traditional rebuild starts from a blank page and rediscovers everything your website already knows.
Factory treats the existing website as the specification.

TRADITIONAL REBUILD 6–18 MONTHS
DISCOVERY
DESIGN
BUILD
MIGRATE
QA
DOGHOUSE FACTORY MIGRATION WEEKS
ANALYSE
MAP
MIGRATE
VERIFY
LIVE
Your time and budget, reallocated to what matters.
WHY IT MATTERS

Before a website can be migrated, it needs to be understood.

Factory creates a structured view of your existing website, including its content, URLs, templates, components, metadata, media and visible functionality. This forms the foundation for estimating, planning and delivering the migration. 

Where content and functionality can be migrated predictably, Factory automates the work. Where refinement or interpretation is needed, our team reviews and validates the result.

1UNDERSTAND
/Full-site crawl & content inventory
2EXTRACT & MAP
/Content type & field mapping
3ASSURE
/Accessibility review
THE PROCESS

How Factory works.

01
Discover
We review the existing platform, website estate, organisational requirements and technical constraints, establishing what can migrate directly, what should improve, and what should be retired or rebuilt.
02
Analyse
Factory combines crawling, structured analysis and specialised models to identify content types, page patterns, components, metadata, links and functionality. The website becomes a structured migration picture, not an unknown collection of pages.
03
Map
Existing content and functionality is mapped to the target Drupal content model, components and integrations. Our team reviews the output and resolves exceptions, inconsistencies and areas requiring improvement.
04
Migrate
Content, media and metadata are extracted, transformed and loaded. Suitable functionality and presentation patterns are replicated, adapted or replaced with more maintainable Drupal components.
05
Improve
Migration is the opportunity to improve accessibility, content structure, navigation, search, performance and editorial usability, prioritised by budget, risk and need.
06
Validate
We test migrated content, URLs, redirects, components and integrations. Automated output is never assumed publication-ready without human review and quality assurance.
07
Launch
Deployment, redirect activation, monitoring and post-launch remediation. The resulting website can be handed over, or managed through Doghouse SaaS.
THE TECHNOLOGY

Smaller models, working with larger models.

Factory doesn't rely on a single model for every task. Specialised smaller models are trained or configured for focused work such as classification, tagging, pattern recognition and mapping, and they process high volumes efficiently. Larger language models support tasks needing broader context, interpretation or transformation.

Applying the right technology to each part of the migration reduces processing cost and keeps the workflow controllable. 

TASK ROUTING
content classification SMALL MODEL
metadata tagging SMALL MODEL
component pattern matching SMALL MODEL
contextual interpretation LARGE MODEL
complex transformation LARGE MODEL
RULES · VALIDATION · HUMAN REVIEW
WHERE YOU LAND

Three migration outcomes.

FULLY MANAGEDRECOMMENDED

Doghouse SaaS

Doghouse hosts, improves and maintains your platform as an ongoing managed service.  Everything stays current, secure and supported.

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PORTABLE

Standard Drupal

A portable Drupal implementation you can host and manage anywhere. Doghouse completes the migration and hands over a standard Drupal website, with optional ongoing maintenance and support available.

GOVERNMENT

GovCMS ready Drupal

Built for Australian government organisations requiring GovCMS alignment. Content, components and implementation are prepared for the appropriate GovCMS delivery model and ongoing governance requirements.

WEBSITE SCAN

See what your migration involves.

1
Scan. Verify your email and we crawl your public website.
2
Review. Complexity, content estate and accessibility snapshot.
3
Quote. Receive a fixed-price estimate and delivery timeframe.
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