Drupal Monthly Retainer Support provides continuous access to senior Drupal engineers who deeply understand your platform, architecture, and business goals.
Instead of reacting to incidents or negotiating scope for every change, you gain a stable, long-term technical partner focused on keeping your Drupal platform secure, performant, and evolving.
This model is ideal for organizations running business-critical Drupal platforms that require steady improvements, proactive maintenance, and trusted technical ownership over time.
Many Drupal platforms are supported through fragmented, ad hoc arrangements where knowledge is lost between vendors and work is constantly reprioritized.
This approach leads to growing technical debt, slower delivery, unpredictable costs, and increased operational risk—especially for platforms that evolve continuously.
Drupal Monthly Retainer Support replaces this instability with a consistent engineering relationship, enabling steady progress, reduced risk, and long-term platform health.
A fixed amount of Drupal engineering time is reserved exclusively for your platform every month.
Long-term engagement ensures architectural context and business logic are fully understood.
Maintenance, performance, and security issues are addressed before they become incidents.
Monthly priorities are adjusted collaboratively based on business needs.
Clear visibility into planned, active, and completed work.
Ongoing guidance supports smarter Drupal decisions, not just task execution.
Drupal Monthly Retainer Support provides a structured, proactive model for maintaining and evolving your Drupal platform. Rather than reacting to isolated issues, the service combines ongoing maintenance, incremental enhancement, performance optimization, and security hardening within a governed monthly framework. Technical debt is systematically reduced through controlled refactoring and modernization, while documentation and knowledge sharing ensure continuity across teams. The result is a stable, continuously improving platform aligned with long-term architectural integrity and upgrade readiness.
Ongoing updates to Drupal core and contributed modules ensure your platform remains secure, stable, and aligned with the latest best practices. We proactively monitor security advisories, test updates in controlled environments, and apply patches safely to minimize risk while maintaining platform integrity and long-term upgrade readiness.
Continuous delivery of small, focused improvements that compound over time. Instead of large disruptive releases, we introduce steady refinements to UX, functionality, and content workflows—keeping your platform evolving without operational friction or unnecessary downtime.
Regular performance tuning, caching optimization, and bottleneck analysis ensure your site remains fast and responsive under growing traffic demands. We monitor key metrics, refine infrastructure configurations, and eliminate inefficiencies to maintain enterprise-grade performance standards.
Preventive security updates and best-practice enforcement protect your Drupal platform against emerging threats. We apply structured patch management, configuration reviews, permission audits, and infrastructure hardening to reduce exposure and strengthen long-term resilience.
Structured refactoring keeps your codebase clean, maintainable, and ready for future upgrades. We identify legacy patterns, remove deprecated logic, improve architecture consistency, and modernize custom code to reduce risk and support sustainable growth.
Key decisions, architectural changes, and operational processes are clearly documented to ensure continuity and transparency. We provide structured knowledge sharing so your internal teams understand platform evolution, reducing onboarding time and dependency on tribal knowledge.
Our Monthly Retainer model provides predictable, long-term Drupal engineering capacity without the complexity of project-by-project contracting. Instead of reactive ticket handling, we operate through structured monthly planning cycles aligned with your strategic priorities. This approach ensures continuity, architectural consistency, and measurable progress across performance, security, and feature development. By maintaining direct collaboration with the same senior engineers over time, your platform benefits from accumulated knowledge, faster execution, and reduced operational overhead. The result is a stable, continuously improving Drupal ecosystem that evolves in step with your business goals.
[01]At the beginning of each month, we align on priorities, define realistic capacity, and agree on measurable outcomes. This structured planning ensures focus on high-impact initiatives while maintaining flexibility for urgent adjustments.
[02]Your backlog evolves continuously without repeated onboarding or re-explaining context. Because the same engineers stay engaged, tasks progress efficiently and knowledge accumulates over time.
[03]Work directly with senior Drupal engineers — no ticket queues, no unnecessary layers, no communication bottlenecks. Fast answers, clear decisions, and practical execution.
[04]Every month includes structured reporting covering completed tasks, performance improvements, risks identified, and next priorities. Full transparency into progress and delivered value.
[05]We minimize administrative friction and focus on execution. Lean collaboration, practical communication, and efficient workflows allow more time for building and improving your platform.
[06]The same engineers remain engaged with your platform long-term, ensuring architectural consistency, faster problem resolution, and steady technical evolution without constant handovers.
A monthly retainer model reduces operational uncertainty and shifts platform management from reactive firefighting to controlled evolution. Predictable budgeting replaces emergency spending, while structured maintenance lowers the risk of disruptive incidents. Continuous incremental improvements accelerate iteration without requiring repeated procurement or project cycles. By addressing technical debt early and consistently, organizations protect long-term scalability and reduce future re-platforming costs. For executive stakeholders, this approach transforms Drupal from a maintenance burden into a managed, strategic digital asset.
Proactive maintenance and structured oversight reduce unexpected outages, security exposure, and emergency interventions, leading to more predictable and stable platform behavior.
A fixed monthly engagement model eliminates surprise invoices and unplanned crisis spending, allowing leadership to forecast digital platform costs with greater accuracy.
Ongoing collaboration enables improvements to be delivered continuously without restarting procurement cycles or launching separate projects for incremental enhancements.
Legacy code, outdated dependencies, and architectural inconsistencies are addressed gradually, preventing accumulation of risk and reducing future modernization effort.
Your Drupal platform is managed as a long-term strategic asset, with documented decisions, governance controls, and sustained architectural alignment over time.
Organogenesis faced operational challenges managing multiple brand websites on outdated platforms, resulting in fragmented workflows, high maintenance costs, and limited scalability.
The transformation reduced time-to-deliver marketing updates by 20–25%, improved Lighthouse scores to ~90+, and delivered a scalable multi-brand foundation for long-term growth.
LSHTM required improvements to its existing Drupal platform to better manage and distribute complex research data, including support for third-party integrations and optimized performance.
The solution improved data accessibility, streamlined research workflows, and enhanced system performance, enabling LSHTM to manage complex datasets more efficiently.
“Oleksiy (PathToProject) has been a valuable developer resource over the past six months for us at LSHTM. This included coming on board to revive and complete a stalled Drupal upgrade project, as well as carrying out work to improve our site accessibility and functionality. I have found Oleksiy to be very knowledgeable and skilful and would happily work with him again in the future. ”
UNCCD operated four separate websites (two WordPress, two Drupal), leading to inconsistencies in design, content management, and user experience. A unified, scalable solution was needed to improve efficiency and usability.
The modernization effort resulted in a cohesive, user-friendly, and scalable website, improving content management efficiency and long-term digital sustainability.
“It was my pleasure working with Oleksiy (PathToProject) on a new Drupal website. He is a true full-stack developer—the ideal mix of DevOps expertise, deep front-end knowledge, and the structured thinking of a senior back-end developer. He is well-organized and never lets anything slip. Oleksiy understands what needs to be done before being asked and can manage a project independently with minimal involvement from clients, product managers, or business analysts. One of the best consultants I’ve worked with so far. ”
With Drupal 7 reaching end-of-life, Veolia needed to migrate its multisite platform to Drupal 10/11 while preserving region-specific content and multilingual capabilities across more than 200 sites.
The platform was modernized into a stable, scalable multisite foundation with improved performance, maintainability, and long-term upgrade readiness.
“As Dev Team Lead on my project for 10 months, Oleksiy (PathToProject) demonstrated excellent technical skills and the ability to handle complex Drupal projects. His full-stack expertise is highly valuable. ”
Oleksiy (PathToProject) has been a valuable developer resource over the past six months for us at LSHTM. This included coming on board to revive and complete a stalled Drupal upgrade project, as well as carrying out work to improve our site accessibility and functionality.
I have found Oleksiy to be very knowledgeable and skilful and would happily work with him again in the future.
It was my pleasure working with Oleksiy (PathToProject) on a new Drupal website. He is a true full-stack developer—the ideal mix of DevOps expertise, deep front-end knowledge, and the structured thinking of a senior back-end developer.
He is well-organized and never lets anything slip. Oleksiy understands what needs to be done before being asked and can manage a project independently with minimal involvement from clients, product managers, or business analysts.
One of the best consultants I’ve worked with so far.
Oleksiy (PathToProject) worked with me on a specific project over a period of three months. He took full ownership of the project and successfully led it to completion with minimal initial information.
His technical skills are unquestionably top-tier, and working with him was a pleasure. I would gladly collaborate with Oleksiy again at any opportunity.
Let’s define a Drupal monthly retainer that fits your platform, priorities, and growth plans.
