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We're proud to share that platformOS has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Agencies of 2026 by 50Pros — a global platform that evaluates exceptional performance across strategy, results, innovation, and leadership. This recognition is the most recent in a long series of industry awards — and it means more because of who it celebrates.

50Pros specifically highlighted our AI-augmented tools for business owners and government agencies, the strength of our leadership team, the breadth of impact across industry verticals, and — most importantly — the growth achieved alongside our Channel Partners. This award belongs to the entire platformOS ecosystem.

From complex government platforms to white-label SaaS products, from community ecosystems to circular economy marketplace solutions — our platform is the backbone for ambitious ventures that solve meaningful problems. Thank you for building with us.

As we look ahead into 2026, this recognition reinforces what we already know: the best is still ahead of us. Welcome to the community — let's build it together.

platformOS was selected as one of the Top 50 innovators in the QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge — a program designed to identify solutions that help cities improve resilience, safety, and operational speed. platformOS qualified with its proven inspection and workflow automation capabilities deployed for government clients, including the Washington DC Department of Buildings.

Urban resilience is one of the defining challenges of the next decade. Cities need digital infrastructure that is flexible, interoperable, and built to serve citizens — not constrained by legacy vendor lock-in. platformOS delivers exactly that: government-grade security, cloud-agnostic deployment, and the flexibility to build any workflow the city needs.

From housing shortage solutions to building inspection systems, platformOS is proving that platform engineering isn't just for startups — it's essential infrastructure for the cities of tomorrow.

From May 22–23, 2025, the platformOS team joined the global ecosystem community at theNTWK Ecosystem Summit in Barcelona. Held at the iconic Port de Barcelona, the event brought together a remarkable mix: experienced industry leaders, fast-growing start-ups and scale-ups, inspiring keynote speakers, and motivated students — all united by a belief in the power of collaborative ecosystem thinking.

For platformOS, the Summit was a confirmation of direction. The conversations happening at the edges of the platform economy — circular models, AI-augmented workflows, channel ecosystems, government digitalization — are exactly the areas where platformOS is building capabilities and partnerships.

The most valuable thing about events like theNTWK Summit isn't the talks. It's the conversations in the hallways: the partnerships formed, the use cases discovered, the ideas that turn into products.

Looking forward to seeing more of our community partners at the next edition.

Building on the partnership with the University of Szeged, platformOS launched "Exploring PaaS for Dynamic Online Ventures" — a full university course designed to give students hands-on experience with modern platform-as-a-service development. The course has since been relaunched with expanded content and a broader student cohort.

Students work directly with platformOS to build real applications, learning the core architecture — GraphQL, Liquid, automated DevOps, multi-tenancy — through project-based coursework. For many, it's their first exposure to industry-grade PaaS, and the feedback has been consistently enthusiastic.
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The path from university student to platformOS intern to junior developer is a real one — several students from this program have gone on to work with platformOS partner agencies directly.*

This is how ecosystems grow: invest in the next generation, and they'll build the future of your platform.

Partnerhub® is a dedicated platform for managing channel partner relationships — connecting vendors, resellers, and affiliates in a structured, scalable digital environment. Cybernova Studio chose platformOS as the foundation because of its flexibility and native support for multi-sided network architectures.

The result is a purpose-built partner portal that handles onboarding, co-marketing workflows, deal registration, and performance tracking — all on a single, fully customizable platform. No patchwork of SaaS tools. No integration overhead. A single platform that does exactly what the business needs.

Partnerhub® is a great example of what's possible when you stop bending your product to fit a tool, and start building a tool that fits your product. That's the platformOS promise.

If you're working on a partner ecosystem or channel management solution, Cybernova's approach is worth studying closely.

SaaS had a brilliant run. But the same constraints that made it scalable — standardization, shared infrastructure, vendor-controlled roadmaps — are now its biggest liabilities. Businesses have outgrown the "one-size-fits-all" era. And the developers building these businesses are demanding more.

Platform engineering is the answer: building internal capabilities that give product teams self-service access to what they need, without creating bottlenecks or vendor dependencies. The future isn't choosing between SaaS and custom — it's Hybrid SaaS: starting with solid foundations and extending exactly where your business needs it.

"You don't own the code or control the schema!" — the hidden cost of SaaS that only becomes visible when you need to scale, pivot, or differentiate.

platformOS was designed for this transition. Composable, API-first, developer-extensible. It's SaaS when you want it — custom when you need it.

The platform engineering conversation has gotten complicated. Internal developer platforms, golden paths, paved roads, PaaS vs. IaaS — the terminology multiplies while the real question gets lost: how do your developers ship faster, and how do you reduce infrastructure burden?

platformOS cuts through the noise. Rather than asking your team to assemble a platform from dozens of tools, platformOS provides an opinionated, production-ready foundation: automated DevOps, built-in CI/CD, multi-tenancy, and cloud-agnostic deployment on AWS, GCP, or OCI. You get the benefits of a custom internal platform without the years of engineering investment to build one.

The real platform engineering debate shouldn't be about tooling. It should be about outcomes: developer velocity, deployment reliability, operational cost. On all three dimensions, platformOS wins.

HR Jetpack is a premier learning platform for HR professionals — offering 450+ live events annually, recognized as a Top SHRM Education Partner and Top 20 Professional Development Vendor. Behind this success is a fully custom Learning Management System built on platformOS through partner Platform Spaces.

The challenge: no off-the-shelf LMS met HR Jetpack's specific needs. Generic platforms forced students into rigid experiences. The solution was Spaces LMS — a purpose-built LMS with exactly the features HR Jetpack needed, and none it didn't.

Zoom integration means instructors create webinars directly in their HR Jetpack account. Attendance is tracked automatically. Admin overhead is eliminated. The platform serves HR professionals — it doesn't burden them.

DataOT is an Australian content automation platform built by a team with 20+ years of CMS experience. They've seen the pitfalls of WordPress (updates that break sites), the limitations of Shopify (locked-in eCommerce only), and the promise of a platform that just works. That platform is platformOS.

What makes DataOT special is its philosophy: designer-friendly, developer-focused, and built for SEO from the ground up. By extending platformOS with selectable layouts, dynamic views, and intuitive configuration tools, DataOT empowers non-technical users to manage complex sites without compromising design quality.

DataOT's insight: WordPress maintenance costs 3–5x the original build cost over two years. DataOT on platformOS eliminates that overhead while delivering blazing-fast, SEO-optimized sites out of the box.

This is the kind of partner innovation the platformOS ecosystem was designed to unlock.

platformOS's reach extends beyond the commercial world. The University of Szeged, one of Hungary's most prestigious institutions, partnered with platformOS to bring real-world platform engineering into their curriculum. The collaboration gave students direct access to an industry-grade PaaS for their coursework and projects.

This was more than a technology licensing deal — it was an investment in the next generation of platform engineers. Students learning on platformOS gain hands-on experience with GraphQL, Liquid, multi-tenancy architecture, and cloud-agnostic deployment: skills that are directly transferable to commercial projects.
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The course "Exploring PaaS for Dynamic Online Ventures" became a landmark initiative — a first-of-its-kind university program centered on PaaS-native development. It has since been relaunched with expanded content.*

The marketplace economy isn't a future prediction — it's already here. Platforms like Airbnb, UiPath's developer marketplaces, Intel's DevMesh community, and hundreds of niche vertical platforms are redefining how industries operate. platformOS has been at the center of many of these builds.

What makes platformOS uniquely suited to marketplace development? Multi-tenancy at the core. GraphQL-first API architecture. Flexible data modeling. Built-in community and transaction primitives. And managed infrastructure that scales without DevOps overhead.

In late 2022, platformOS kicked off one of its most ambitious community initiatives: the Golden Platform — a standardized, community-co-created framework of optimized best practices, starter kits, and reusable components for building on platformOS.

The goal was straightforward but powerful: reduce time-to-market for partners, increase consistency across projects, and lower the barrier for new developers joining the ecosystem. The Golden Platform crystallized into a family of purpose-built kits:

CodeKit — reduce build time and increase profitability.
DevOpsKit — fully managed infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or OCI.
UXKit — battle-tested UX research processes and Figma templates.
DocsKit — deploy award-winning documentation sites fast.
MobileKit — Flutter-based hybrid mobile app wrapper.

The Community Solution was identified as the first real-world product to launch from this framework. Partners are invited to contribute, adapt, and build on these foundations.

The DevRel Awards recognize excellence in developer relations — the practice of building genuine, lasting relationships between a platform and its developer community. Winning Best Ongoing Developer Experience signals that platformOS doesn't just impress developers at first contact — the experience gets better the longer you build on it.

From weekly Town Halls and responsive Slack support, to continuous documentation improvements driven by real community feedback, platformOS treats developer experience as a product — something to be designed, measured, and constantly iterated on. The award reflects that commitment.

"The community is awesome. From day one, it's been tight-knit, with quick feedback and real collaboration — our voice is heard." — platformOS partner

Great partners build great things — and the success of platformOS partners is a direct reflection of the platform's capabilities. Siteglide, a Master Partner of platformOS, was ranked #1 Best Digital Experience Platform (DXP) for Small Business. This milestone matters for the entire community: it's proof that building on platformOS enables partners to create genuinely market-leading products.

Siteglide's model is a perfect expression of what's possible with platformOS: a Hybrid SaaS offering that combines the convenience of SaaS with unlimited development potential. Guard-rails for clients who want simplicity; full customization for agencies who need power.

When our partners win, we all win. Siteglide's recognition as the #1 DXP for small business validates the Hybrid SaaS model we've built together on platformOS.

2022 was a landmark year. platformOS didn't just win one or two categories at the DevPortal Awards — they swept the board. The team won Best Accessible DevPortal, Best New DX Innovation, and Best DevPortal Beyond REST Platforms. Then came the crown: Best Overall SME DevPortal — the top prize for the entire awards.

This recognition reflected years of continuous investment in documentation quality, developer experience design, contribution infrastructure, and community building. The platform's documentation isn't an afterthought — it's a competitive product in its own right.

Winning "Best Overall" alongside three category awards confirmed what our partners have long known: platformOS documentation sets the standard for how developer portals should be built.

A huge thank you to every team member and community contributor who made this possible. Awards like this belong to the whole ecosystem.

The second Gala of DevPortal Awards 2021 delivered two more wins for platformOS: Best Editorial Experience in a DevPortal and Best Developer Portal for Alternatives to REST-APIs. Combined with Best Onboarding earlier in the year, platformOS became one of the most recognized developer portals in the world in a single awards cycle.

The editorial experience award recognizes how seamless it is to keep documentation current — through a CI/CD-driven docs-as-code workflow where contributors at any skill level can participate. The REST API alternatives award acknowledged platformOS's exceptional documentation for GraphQL and Liquid, two core technologies baked into the platform.

Out of 49 world-class developer portals nominated across 15 categories, the platformOS Developer Portal took home the Best Onboarding award at DevPortal Awards 2021. This was the first of what would become a series of industry recognitions — and it validated something the team had worked hard to build: an onboarding experience that removes friction and gets developers building in minutes.

Judges specifically highlighted that developers can set up a demo site in a single click after creating an account — no email validation required. That kind of zero-friction onboarding is rare, and it reflects a genuine commitment to developer experience.

The award is peer-reviewed by industry experts, making it one of the most credible recognitions in the developer portal space. This was just the beginning — platformOS went on to win three more categories that same year.

The way people buy, sell, and work was already shifting — and then 2020 accelerated everything. In this article, we explored how marketplace-driven models were reshaping not just eCommerce, but the very structure of employment and professional services.

Traditional eCommerce is giving way to connected ecosystems where buyers, sellers, service providers, and communities coexist on a single platform. The distinction between a "marketplace" and a "community" is dissolving. The winners are platforms that enable trust, discovery, and transaction — all in one place.

The gig economy isn't a trend. It's a structural shift. Platforms that can host complex, multi-sided interactions — not just transactions — will define the next decade of work and commerce.

platformOS was designed precisely for this future: multi-tenancy, marketplace primitives, community features, and developer freedom — all in a single managed PaaS.

At DevRelCon Earth 2020, the platformOS documentation team shared a transparent look behind the curtain: how do you build world-class developer documentation when your entire team is distributed across continents, and your contributors are a global open-source community?

The answer: intentional processes, an open contribution model, and a culture of radical transparency. platformOS adopted a docs-as-code workflow — meaning documentation lives in Git, follows developer workflows, and is continuously reviewed and improved like production code. Community members can fix a typo from the GitHub UI in two minutes, or contribute full guides using a CLI workflow.

The community isn't just the audience for the docs — they're co-authors. That shift in mindset changes everything about documentation quality and relevance.

This approach would later earn platformOS multiple DevPortal Awards. It all started with trusting the community enough to build with them, not just for them.

Every great platform has a founding story worth telling. platformOS was born in 2014 in San Francisco, California — founded by Adam Broadway after selling his previous company, Business Catalyst, to Adobe Systems in 2009. Immersed in the Bay Area's culture of relentless innovation, Adam set out to build something different: a platform that would truly empower developers and agencies to build enterprise-quality applications without the typical infrastructure burden.

The core belief driving platformOS from day one: developers shouldn't have to fight their platform. It should work for them — scalable, flexible, and built to last.

The chameleon-elephant logo isn't just branding. It's a philosophy — adaptability meets durability. Today, platformOS powers mission-critical applications across government, eCommerce, education, communities, and marketplaces worldwide. This is where it all started.