Capability across your digital estate
Your whole estate,
operated as one.
Every engagement starts where you need it: one domain, one platform, one problem. Assembly brings an estate-wide lens to it. We build and operate web applications, experience platforms, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms, so work in any one of them is done with an understanding of the others, and of where your estate needs to go. The infrastructure work understands the applications it carries. The platform work understands the data behind it.
Web Applications, Digital Experience Platforms, Cloud Infrastructure, and Data & AI. The work that matters most usually lives where these meet, not inside any one of them.
Building the future of digital estates
Capability where it lives.
Our practitioners have deep expertise in specific disciplines and broad experience across the estate. They understand how decisions in one area affect the others, so solutions are designed with the whole estate in mind. Below, each is shown with the kinds of programs we run and the technologies involved.
Domain 01
Web Applications
Modernize the business apps your business runs on, without turning them off. Functional software: applications that carry business logic, integrate with the systems that run the business, and produce outcomes where correctness and uptime are the point. The work happens inside the live system. No cutover weekend. No parallel systems to reconcile.
Domain 02
Digital Experience Platforms
One platform strategy for your entire web estate. The technology platforms behind customer-facing websites, portals, and content ecosystems: the architecture, governance, and delivery model that let multiple teams, agencies, and brands build on one foundation without breaking it. Assembly builds the experiences and the platform they run on.
Domain 03
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud is a foundation, not a destination. Architecture, migration, and operations on Microsoft Azure, built for the applications it carries: modern platform services over virtual machines at cloud prices, the foundation defined as code, and DevSecOps in the pipeline rather than review at the end. Build the foundation first, consolidated governance, shared security, integrated identity, and migration happens faster, cheaper, and at lower risk.
Domain 04
Data & AI
Production AI runs on a trusted data foundation. The intelligence layer of the estate: data from operational systems consolidated into a single trusted layer, connected through governed integrations to the applications and platforms that produce it, and held to the standard AI workloads and compliance review require. Build the foundation, and AI ships embedded into the systems the business already runs, with results reliable enough to deploy at production scale.
Where the domains converge
The estate is what holds them together.
These domains are the major components of a modern digital estate. The estate is how a client experiences the work. When technology leadership inherits an environment that has accumulated across acquisitions, technology shifts, and re-orgs, the program that fixes it cannot live inside one domain.
The work spans Cloud Infrastructure (the foundation), Web Applications (what runs on it), Digital Experience Platforms (what customers see), and Data & AI (what makes the rest accountable). Run as one engagement rather than four sequential ones, with teams making decisions through the lens of the entire estate rather than optimizing individual domains in isolation.
Assembly takes ownership of what happens between the domains: the dependencies, the sequencing, and the decisions in one area that create risk in another. That is where estate modernization succeeds or stalls.
Security, identity, and governance run through all of it, engineered from the foundation rather than retrofitted at the end. That is the difference between an estate that audits cleanly and one that does not.
That is what Assembly was built to do. The four domains are not four separate practices that happen to share a name. They are four facets of the same firm.
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The platforms our work runs on.
Across our four domains, these are the platforms we engineer with day to day. We recommend the right stack for your environment rather than defaulting to a single vendor.
Microsoft
Azure · Data · AI
Sitecore
Digital Experience Platforms
Databricks
Data & AI
Contentful
Composable content
Certifications & compliance
Credentials that clear procurement and security review on day one.
Certified
SOC 2 Type II
Annual third-party audit of security, availability, and confidentiality controls. Work is also grounded in CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS, and the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework as part of engagement delivery. See our SOC 2 program →
Partner
Microsoft Solutions Partner
Recognized across Digital and App Innovation, Data and AI, and Infrastructure. 20 years of practice on the Microsoft stack, delivering on Azure since the platform emerged. See our Microsoft practice →
Across every domain
Built into every engagement, not bolted on at the end.
Operational excellence, security, and automation are engineered into every estate we build. They aren't separate workstreams. They are part of how modern platforms are designed from day one.
OPERATIONS & OBSERVABILITY
Built to operate.
Monitoring, logging, diagnostics, alerting, deployment strategies, and operational visibility are designed into the platform from the beginning. The goal is not simply delivering software. The goal is delivering systems that can be operated, supported, and evolved long after launch.
SECURITY & DEVSECOPS
Shifted left by design.
Security spans applications, cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and operations. Secure coding practices, vulnerability management, policy enforcement, secrets management, identity, and infrastructure security are integrated throughout delivery rather than assessed after the fact.
AUTOMATION & DELIVERY
Automated wherever possible.
Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, environment provisioning, and deployment automation reduce risk while increasing delivery speed. Repetition becomes automation so teams can focus on solving business problems rather than managing manual processes.
Impact stories
Our work in practice across the estate.
A look at how the four domains show up in real engagements, from single-capability programs to portfolios that span the estate.
Global automotive OEM
Multi-brand DXP foundation across dozens of properties
A shared experience foundation across dozens of websites and customer-facing properties. Multiple distinct brands evolve on a common platform while preserving brand independence. The same shared component library accelerates delivery across every property in the ecosystem.
Global asset management firm
Building a centralized digital estate for a 70+ property enterprise.
A centralized digital experience platform supporting all 70+ digital properties through a unified platform, with reusable components and themed templates, a governed design system, and enterprise-grade hosting with Canadian data residency compliance.
Securities regulator
Consolidating a securities regulator's public web estate onto a governed Azure foundation.
A provincial securities regulator is moving its public-facing website portfolio off a fragmented, multi-vendor stack onto its own Azure tenant. Assembly was selected to run the migration and operate the estate, with a multi-year consolidation horizon to follow.
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