Overview
Dropsolid AI offers an open Digital Experience Platform with integrated AI capabilities. The platform includes use cases such as Knowledge Navigator (internal AI assistant), Trusted Answers (public-facing AI search), and Content Command Centre, with two use cases in production at EU institutions.
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In the news
- The Dropsolid AI Enterprise podcast is about to start in 30 mins. Today's topic: Drupal Enterprise AI Summit on the 28 Sep in Rotterdam. 👉 Get access through the calendar here: https://bit.ly/4hatOqt
- Robert Smith was asked if The Cure were as excited as everyone else about being inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. His answer: "By the sounds of it, no." I think most European digital leaders would give me the same answer if I asked whether they were excited about the Enterprise AI Summit on September 28th aboard the SS Rotterdam. And they'd be wrong. This is the only event in Europe where digital leaders -- CDOs, CIOs, CMOs, Heads of Digital, Marketing and Technology -- can see actual AI deployments in production. Not
- Adobe just appointed a new CEO. He previously led their Digital Experience division, which he renamed to Customer Experience Orchestration, historically one of Adobe's least profitable business lines. That's not a coincidence. That's a signal about where the next decade of enterprise software value will be created. Here's my read on what it means. AI doesn't make digital experiences less relevant. It makes them more important and significantly harder to get right. Because modern digital experiences now require more than a
- The most expensive digital platform is the one you have to rebuild too soon. So what is the return on a platform that is still delivering value nearly a decade after launch. And can continue evolving into the next one? Yesterday, Dominique De Cooman shared that Dropsolid is now listed among Drupal’s top-tier Certified Partners. One of two in Europe. It prompted me to explain why Drupal matters to us: not just for what organisations need today, but for the AI capabilities they will need tomorrow. In September 2017, the Barbican
- Open source is the gateway to true sovereignty." That was Dropsolid founder Dominique De Cooman closing the AI Governance Forum 2026, and it isn't a marketing line. It's the bet the company was built on. The argument is practical, not sentimental. If the vendors underpinning your stack are themselves built on open foundations, you retain real options. You're not locked into a single company's roadmap, pricing decisions, or continued goodwill. Even smaller companies can build defensible technology by building on and contributing
- For the past few years, AI has felt effectively free. Generous token allowances. Subsidised access. Providers competing hard for market share ... Several panelists at the AI Governance Forum 2026 made the same point from different angles: that phase is ending, and almost nobody has budgeted for what comes next. Jan Smedts flagged the one nobody talks about. Around a hundred billion dollars has gone into building the infrastructure behind today's AI systems. At some point that gets recovered. And as perceived risk around AI
- The most useful ten minutes of the AI Governance Forum 2026 were the ten minutes where two panelists openly disagreed. Cyril Guilloret says the vulnerabilities were already there. AI hasn't invented new categories of weakness. It's accelerated how fast the existing ones get found. Test continuously instead of occasionally. Patch faster. The risk changed in speed, not in kind. Roeland Delrue says the scale is unprecedented. Most organisations still run monthly patching cycles. Against AI-assisted attackers, that cadence is already
- 93% of Europe's technology stack is non-European. Of the small remainder, most sits in telecom. On infrastructure specifically, Europe's presence is close to negligible. Jan Smedts opened with that number at the AI Governance Forum 2026 (hosted by Dropsolid and Beltug), then rejected both reactions people usually have to it. Sovereignty isn't a political buzzword. And it isn't about building digital walls and going it alone. It's about knowing where your dependencies sit, and having a real alternative for the ones that matter. The
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