Built for Government. Better for everyone.
Most government websites fail in the same places. Accessibility gets bolted on at the end, editorial tools frustrate the people using them every day, and hosting struggles the moment a major announcement or policy lands.
We work the other way around. District CMS, our Drupal accelerator, is designed specifically for government websites and the people who rely on them. Accessibility, UX, structured content and performance are built in from the start, not layered on later.
District CMS.
District CMS packages a decade of government Drupal into a managed accelerator. You get pre-built paragraph components, a design system already integrated with the editorial layer, layout-builder defaults, and content workflows shaped by the people who actually publish on the system.
The platform is accessible the moment you turn it on. The first month is spent tuning content and policies rather than rebuilding the foundations every other agency rebuilds from scratch.
What every government website should deliver.
District CMS, day one.
A Drupal accelerator built specifically for government. You start with a working, accessible platform.
From there, your team tunes content and policies instead of rebuilding the basics from scratch.
GovCMS, done well.
Delivery is shaped around the realities of SaaS and PaaS environments, while still improving the experience for editors, citizens and internal teams.
Accessible to every citizen.
Every component meets WCAG 2.2 AA from the moment it lands on the page.
Screen readers, keyboards, plain English. Everyone gets the same experience.
A platform editors enjoy.
The people publishing every day get a system shaped around them.
Clear workflows, structured content and a layout builder that makes sense without a manual.
Reliable when news lands.
Hosted in Australia, with the headroom for a policy launch, a ministerial announcement, or a quiet Tuesday.
The site stays up when traffic spikes and stays fast the rest of the time.
Compliance, handled.
We map every build to the government security standards. Your team focuses on the content and the citizens. We carry the detail.
How a website delivery runs.
Discover.
We start with the people using the site and the people running it. Their reality shapes everything that follows.
Design.
Components and pages are designed inside our pattern library. Accessibility is part of the design, not a step at the end.
Build.
Drupal, District CMS or GovCMS, whichever fits. Migration runs alongside the build, so launch is not a scramble.
Validate.
Accessibility, performance and security checks happen before go-live. Editor training lands in the same window.
Operate.
The team who built the site stays with it. The same people you worked with during delivery answer the phone after launch.
What every government build ships with.
Accessibility conformance report against WCAG 2.2 AA on every component before launch.
Content migration from your existing CMS, with parity testing on real content in pre-production.
Hosting AWS Sydney with auto-scaling, automated backups and no single point of failure.
Editor training and documentation for the teams who run the site every day.
Security posture aligned to the ISM, Essential Eight ML2.
Ongoing support retainer with defined SLAs, security patching and content publishing assistance.
Performance budget targeting sub-two-second page loads under government-scale spike traffic.