Canvas Readiness Review
An inventory of what your site is built from, a migration path to Drupal Canvas and single-directory components, and a costed roadmap you can take to a board.
[FIXED FEE]
Drupal & AI consultancy · Hedge End, Hampshire
Senior capability.
Two days a week.
An arch is a pile of stones until the last one goes in. The keystone doesn't carry the building — it makes every other stone load-bearing.
Your team, your CMS, your content are already there. Two days a week is the smallest thing that turns them into something that holds weight.
Seven stones. One keystone.
01 / The problem
You have a website, a small team, and nobody senior enough to decide what happens next.
Drupal moved under you
Drupal CMS 2.0 shipped in January with Canvas as the default editor and a new component system. Nobody has told you what that means for the site you already have.
Everyone is selling you AI
Every vendor has an AI module and a demo. None of them will tell you which parts you shouldn't switch on, or who is accountable when it gets something wrong.
The people who built it have gone
The agency moved on, the developer left, and the documentation was always going to be written next sprint. You own a system nobody can explain.
A full-time hire isn't the answer
You don't have five days a week of this work, or the budget line for a head. You have two days a week of decisions that keep getting postponed.
02 / How we start
Three fixed-price pieces of work. No discovery call required to find out the price.
Inherited Site Rescue
For the site whose builders have gone. I stabilise it, document how it actually works, and hand control back to your team in writing.
[FIXED FEE]
AI in the CMS
One governed use case, delivered end to end, with the policy wrapper around it — so you can show how the decision was made, not just that the feature works.
[FIXED FEE]
Each one ends with a roadmap that needs somebody to deliver it. That is usually where the two days a week begins.
03 / Who you get
I've taken organisations through two technology shifts already. This is the third.
3G in telecoms. E-commerce across global consumer brands. Now AI. The technology is always the easy part — the hard part is the people who have to run it on Monday morning.
30 years
Digital delivery across telecoms, global consumer brands, UK public sector and CMS product management.
Built, not briefed
A nine-agent brand intelligence platform and an AI film production company, both built and delivered. I'm not learning this on your budget.
Under the bonnet
Six months of machine learning, Python and dashboard build at the University of Portsmouth. I can read the model, not just the marketing.
04 / Proof
Work that stood up.
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Hampshire County Council
Delivered the DfT-funded My Journey programme — public sector digital delivery under real scrutiny, with the reporting and governance that funding brings. [ONE OUTCOME LINE]
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Le Creuset & Kenwood
E-commerce across 25 markets for Le Creuset and 50 countries for Kenwood — multi-territory content operations where governance is the whole job. [ONE OUTCOME LINE]
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The Bump Company
Seller-side technical migration through an acquisition: redirect mapping, account transfer, legacy Drupal infrastructure diagnosed and retired without losing the traffic. [ONE OUTCOME LINE]
05 / Terms
Plain terms, published, so nobody wastes a meeting.
Two days a week, three-month minimum
Named days, agreed up front. Remote, with days on site as needed
Monthly in arrears, [PAYMENT TERMS]
Retained rate on request. Project work quoted fixed
The retained rate is lower than the project rate because the commitment is what buys the discount. You get a named person on a known day, not a ticket queue.
The keystone
Tell me what you've got and what's stuck.
Thirty minutes, no charge, no deck. If I'm not the right answer I'll say so and tell you what is.