Industry Internal portals
HR teams, internal comms, knowledge ops, distributed companies. We ship the BuddyBoss-powered social layer, the SSO integration, the knowledge base, and the corporate-stack integrations that make an intranet a daily destination instead of an IT mandate.
Why this industry
Most enterprise intranets fail one metric. Daily active employee rate. SharePoint and Confluence are content repositories, not communities. Employees log in when they need a document, not when they want to engage. The intranet that actually works is the one designed like a community platform, not a document library.
We have shipped 12-plus intranets on BuddyBoss and BuddyPress. We see daily active rates 5 to 10x higher than SharePoint. The reason is not magic. It is that the platform is designed for engagement, the engineering supports SSO and corporate stack integration, and the rollout treats culture change as part of the project, not as the customer's problem.
What we work with
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You have SharePoint and nobody opens it. You want an intranet employees check daily, not the one IT mandated. WordPress with BuddyBoss or BuddyPress is the answer and we have shipped it 12 times.
An intranet with daily active rates above 60 percent, not 6 percent.
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Engineering wikis, sales playbooks, customer success runbooks, onboarding documentation. Searchable, editable, version-controlled, and integrated with the tools the team already uses.
Internal docs that the team finds in under 30 seconds, not 30 minutes.
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Async-first communication, virtual water cooler, employee directory with timezone awareness, async standups, peer recognition. The intranet that replaces the office, not the one that documents it.
Async culture that makes new hires productive in week one.
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Healthcare, retail, hospitality, manufacturing. Mobile-first portals for employees without desks. Shift schedules, training delivery, peer messaging, recognition programs. The frontline workforce most intranets ignore.
Frontline portals that 80 percent of shift workers actually log into.
What we build
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Activity feeds, member directories, group spaces, project workspaces, peer recognition. The same engineering we ship for public communities, configured for internal use with corporate SSO.
Intranets with engagement rates 5 to 10x SharePoint or Confluence.
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Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, OneLogin, custom SAML or OIDC providers. User provisioning, role mapping, deprovisioning on offboarding, group sync. We have shipped 20-plus SSO integrations.
SSO that the IT security team approves and the help desk does not own.
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Algolia, Pagefind, or Elasticsearch-backed search. Versioning on documents, editorial review queues, glossary tooltips, contextual related-content suggestions. Knowledge ops that the team owns.
Internal search that returns the right doc in under 30 seconds.
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Searchable employee directory, individual people pages, project history, manager hierarchy, timezone-aware availability, peer recognition. The directory that helps people find people, not the one that lists them.
Directory usage rates 4 to 6x corporate org-chart tools.
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Designed for the phone first, desktop second. Shift schedules, training videos, peer messaging, recognition programs. Works on a 4G connection and on a five-year-old Android.
Frontline portals where 80 percent of shift workers log in weekly.
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Slack, Microsoft Teams, Workday, Bamboo HR, Greenhouse, Lattice, Gusto. Bidirectional sync where appropriate, single-source-of-truth where appropriate. The integration plumbing the in-house team usually does not have time to build.
A portal that talks to the rest of the corporate stack, not against it.
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enterprise intranets shipped since 2019
BuddyBoss and BuddyPress, with corporate SSO and knowledge base integration.
Common questions
Engagement and customization. SharePoint and Confluence are great for IT and engineering documentation. They are not great for company-wide engagement, recognition programs, or frontline workforce delivery. We see daily active rates 5 to 10x higher on BuddyBoss intranets versus SharePoint. The customization ceiling is also significantly higher.
Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, OneLogin, custom SAML or OIDC. We have shipped 20-plus integrations. User provisioning on hire, role mapping by department, deprovisioning on offboarding, group sync. The IT security team gets full documentation before launch.
Yes. We have shipped intranets past 25,000 employees on properly architected stacks. The default WordPress hosting will not scale that far. The plugin architecture will. Database tuning, object cache, and edge caching for marketing pages all matter at scale.
We deploy on hosting partners that match your data residency requirements. SOC 2 Type II hosting partners available. We harden WordPress to enterprise-procurement standards: 2FA enforcement, audit logging, file integrity monitoring, automated dependency updates. We document the architecture for your CISO.
SMS-based authentication, manager-distributed accounts, kiosk mode for shared devices, mobile-first design that works on a basic Android. We have shipped frontline portals for healthcare and hospitality where 70 percent of users do not have a corporate email.
Department-level intranets are scoped per project. Company-wide rollouts with SSO and integrations are scoped after discovery. Multi-region deployments with localization are scoped after discovery. Discovery call is free and we sign NDAs before architecture detail is shared.
Building an intranet?
Discovery call is free. NDA on request. Compliance documentation available before signing.
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