Assoc.dev builds Drupal 11 platforms where Canvas, recipes and one design system of single-directory components run dozens of sites from one codebase. AI agents build pages there over MCP with exactly the permissions a human editor has, and every step they take leaves a trace.
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01 / Services
4 pillars, 1 platform
Drupal 11 with Canvas for visual page building, recipes for repeatable site setup, and a design system of single-directory components your editors lay out themselves.
Drupal AI integrations, agents that build and edit Canvas pages over MCP as an editor would, content assistants, semantic search over your own content, translation, and accessibility and SEO checks before anything goes live.
Dozens of sites from one codebase and one design system. Each site gets its own database and its own configuration, applied by a recipe rather than copied by hand.
Hosting on Hetzner provisioned with Ansible, security updates, monitoring, and a remote dashboard that shows every site's version and health in one place.
02 / Agent trace
sample run · clinic-north
The agent asks Canvas which components exist, drafts the page, places them, and stops where your editors would stop: at the permission to publish.
Run the full sample on the platform page09:41:02agentcanvas_list_componentsas content_editorok · 62 components09:41:04agentcanvas_create_page"Spring open day"ok · draft09:41:06agentcanvas_add_componenthero_bannerok · slot content09:41:08agentcanvas_add_componentevent_scheduleok · slot content09:41:11agentcanvas_publish_auto_savesdenied · role lacks "publish content"09:43:20humanM. Okafor (editor)approved + published03 / Permissions
Drupal permissions · Canvas auto-save · content moderation · revisions
04 / Fleet
figures from the sample fleet
A recipe installs the modules a kind of site needs and imports its configuration. The fortieth clinic site starts from the same tested setup as the first.
| site | recipe | state | deployed |
|---|---|---|---|
| clinic-north | assoc_clinic | agent working | 09:12 |
| faculty-science | assoc_faculty | deploying | now |
| research-portal | assoc_docs | update queued | yesterday |
| summer-school | assoc_event | nominal | 09:12 |
05 / Care
monthly retainer
Hosting in Germany. Hetzner servers, provisioned and rebuilt with Ansible, so no server is a snowflake.
Security updates. Core and contrib advisories applied across the whole fleet in one release window.
Monitoring. Uptime, cron, queues, backups and certificate expiry, checked for every site.
A remote dashboard. One view of every site's version, pending updates and health.
2 sites wait for a core security update
Scheduled for today's 14:00 window · sample alert
06 / Engagement
3 stages, each one optional
07 / Work
sample case studies
Forty-one clinic sites had drifted apart over eight years. One clinic recipe, one component library and the Canvas agent let the web team publish landing pages without opening a ticket.
Semantic search with cited sources over the press's own archive. Every answer links the three passages it came from.
search exits to a page, not a dead end: 71%
Automated translation drafts each changed timetable page overnight. A native speaker approves it before 07:00, or the previous version stays up.
6 languages · human approval on every page
08 / Fit
read before you book
We say no early, so neither of us spends a month finding out.
Rhea Achterberg
platform lead · sample
Tomasz Nowicki
AI and MCP integration · sample
A 45-minute call with two of our engineers. We look at your sites, how your editors work, and where AI would help and where it would not.
Prefer email? Write to review@assoc.dev.