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Digital experience studio · since 2007

Proof, not promises.

We design and build accessible digital services for the public sector and the enterprise.

Recent & ongoing work

  • 1 of 600+

    New Mexico Department of Health · PDF remediation · 2026

    600+ PDFs remediated to WCAG 2.1 AA in one month

    Read the New Mexico case study

Trusted by global brands & public institutions

  • State of Ohio
  • New Mexico Department of Health
  • Honda Research Institute
  • UPS
  • Stanford University
  • PepsiCo
  • Bunge
  • Sigma
  • CEMEX

01What we do

Three practices. One standard: we prove it.

A senior studio team on every engagement, from the first workshop to years of support.

  • Accessibility & compliance

    Audits, document remediation, inclusive research and Title II readiness, run as engagements that end in evidence, not a report on a shelf. We have built to WCAG 2.1 AAA, remediated 600+ PDFs in one month and hold our own site to WCAG 2.2 AA.

    • Title II & Section 504 readiness
    • Accessibility audits
    • Document & PDF remediation
    • Inclusive research & plain language

    600+

    PDFs remediated to WCAG 2.1 AA in one month

    Explore Accessibility & compliance

  • Digital platforms

    Public-service websites, portals and intranets on the platform that fits you: a suite such as HCL DX or Liferay, or headless with Contentful or Payload. We have built portals since 2009, and we move you between platforms without losing what works.

    • HCL Digital Experience
    • Liferay DXP
    • Contentful
    • Payload
    • Public-service websites & portals
    • Intranets & employee portals
    • Platform migrations

    56

    engagements with the State of Ohio

    Explore Digital platforms

  • Run & evolve

    We keep running what we build: managed support, modernization in steps, and AI that does specific work with people deciding what ships. Honda Research Institute has worked with us since 2014, the State of Ohio since 2017.

    • HCL Digital Experience
    • Liferay DXP
    • IBM
    • AWS
    • Managed support
    • AI & content intelligence
    • Modernization

    230+

    engagements delivered

    Explore Run & evolve

02Accessibility

Our deepest work is making digital usable by everyone.

From research with people who have cognitive disabilities to certified documents at state scale.

  1. 2022

    Stanford University · AXESS

    The student and faculty portal, implemented with an accessible theme on Liferay DXP.

  2. 2025–26

    Tech4Me · Ohio OOD

    74 questions cut to 11, in plain language at WCAG 2.1 AAA. 1st place, Research for Social Good, 2026 Optimal Experience Awards.

  3. May 2026

    New Mexico Department of Health

    600+ PDFs remediated to WCAG 2.1 AA in one month: twice the 300 committed.

  4. 2026

    base22.com

    Held to WCAG 2.2 AA, with automated checks on every change.

Document remediation runs on Ockem Proof, the platform we built for it: every PDF checked, fixed and certified.

ockem.com/proof (opens in a new tab)

03Recent work

Work that’s running today.

Public services, portals and platforms, built and supported by Base22.

Featured

Public sector · 2025–2026

Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities

Tech4Me: helping Ohioans with disabilities find the technology that works for them

For an Ohioan with a disability, the right technology, from a screen reader to audio directions to the bus stop, can be what makes a job possible. Tech4Me is where they, their families and their counselors find it. We redesigned that journey with the people who take it: the questionnaire went from 45–60 minutes to 5–10, in plain language, and ends in a personal report that links every recommendation to the tools themselves.

5–10
minutes to complete, down from 45–60
11
questions, down from 74
3rd–6th
grade reading level, in plain language
Read the Tech4Me case study
1st place · Research for Social Good · 2026 Optimal Experience Awards
tech4me.ohio.gov
The Tech4Me homepage on desktop: “Discover Technology That Works for You”, with a button to take the Tech Survey
A Tech Survey question on a phone: “What tech do you use or could learn? (select all that apply)”, with a progress bar and pictured answers for iPhone or iPad, other phone or tablet, computer, smart watch, other device and “I don’t need any help”, plus Previous and Next buttons
  • jfs.ohio.gov
    Public sector

    Ohio Department of Job & Family Services

    2025–2026

    Job & Family Services: four clear starting points for Ohioans who need help, on the State’s new platform

    People come to jfs.ohio.gov at hard moments: after losing a job, when the food budget runs short, when a child support payment is late. In 2025–2026 we rebuilt the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services’ website on the State’s new Contentful platform around four starting points instead of a list of programs, and moved three related sites with it, keeping the forms, search and chatbots people rely on. It has just gone live.

    4
    JFS websites rebuilt on Contentful, live 2026

  • Schematic — client UI under NDA

    Higher Education

    Stanford University

    2021–2023

    Stanford AXESS: the student portal redesigned with the students who use it, and built to be accessible

    AXESS is where Stanford students enroll in classes, check their bills and financial aid, and where faculty and staff reach their own services. We redesigned it with students, teaching assistants and the university offices behind it in 2021–2022, and built it on Liferay with an accessible theme; it went live in August 2022, and its enrollment and calendar components were then remediated to WCAG 2.0 AA.

    AA
    WCAG 2.0 for Simple Enroll and My Calendar, validated through testing (2022–2023)

  • Schematic — client UI under NDA

    Manufacturing

    Vitro

    2024–today

    VitroHub: one employee portal for six businesses in 14 countries, in English and Spanish

    Vitro’s people work in six businesses and 14 countries, and they needed one place for company news, the tools they use every day and the resources that apply to them. We designed and built VitroHub on Liferay DXP in 2024: bilingual, with content targeted by business, country and location, and run by Vitro’s own authors. We have supported it since.

    14
    countries targeted from one portal
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04How we work

A proven approach, now with AI at every step.

Nineteen years of engagements, turned into playbooks and tools. AI speeds up each step; people own every decision.

  1. think.

    Workshops, research and a roadmap tied to outcomes.

    AI: research synthesis, content inventories

  2. design.

    Services designed with the people who use them.

    AI: plain-language drafts, alt text

  3. build.

    Suite or headless, accessible from the first commit.

    AI: code assistance, automated accessibility checks

  4. run.

    Support that keeps improving what’s live.

    AI: monitoring, content operations

  5. scale.

    New agencies, sites and regions on the same foundation.

    AI: migration and remediation at volume

  • AI drafts.

    Models do the first pass, at machine speed.

  • People decide.

    A named person signs off on anything published.

  • Everything leaves a trail.

    Every change can be audited.

Platforms we build on

  • HCL Digital Experience
  • Liferay
  • Contentful
  • Payload

05Clients

Trusted by global brands and public institutions.

50+
enterprise clients
230+
engagements delivered since 2009
18
recognitions for client work, 2011–2026
  • State of Ohio
  • Honda Research Institute
  • Sigma
  • InverCap
  • Penn Vet
  • Bunge
  • New Mexico Department of Health
  • Vitro
  • HCL Software
  • CNH Industrial
  • Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
  • A&W Food Services of Canada
  • UPS
  • Stanford University
  • PepsiCo
  • Stanford GSB
  • Sunglass Hut
  • Luxottica
  • Tec de Monterrey
  • Instituto Nuevo Amanecer (Voy x Todo)
  • Deloitte
  • KFC
  • Coppel
  • Nartex Labs
  • CEMEX
  • WPS Health Solutions
  • Tinker Federal Credit Union
  • American Quarter Horse Association
  • Aspirus Arise
  • Taco Bell
  • Honda
  • CHS Inc.

Partnerships that last

Engagement span · 2009–2026

  • State of Ohio

    2017–today · 56 engagements

  • Honda Research Institute

    2014–today · 9 engagements

  • InverCap

    2020–today · 3 engagements

  • Sigma

    2019–today · 4 engagements

  • UPS

    2009–2023 · 14 years

  • Bunge

    2015–today · 11 years

  • PepsiCo

    2015–2023 · 34 engagements

06Insights

What we’re learning.

  • Platforms & portals

    B2B portals: what dealer, franchisee and partner portals taught us

    A B2B portal is where a business partner does their job with you: orders parts, reads this week's bulletin, checks a claim. Lessons from portals we built and ran for CNH Industrial's dealers, A&W Canada's franchisees and a health plan's agents and providers.

    Article · 4 min read

  • AI & data

    We turned our old tools off last, not first

    In fourteen weeks we moved our company’s time, expenses and invoicing onto a platform we built ourselves. The day the old time tracker went quiet, nobody noticed. That was the plan.

    Article · 6 min read

All insights

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