Why WordPress instead of SharePoint or Confluence?

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. BuddyBoss and BuddyPress were built for engagement rather than document storage, so recognition, activity and frontline delivery are native rather than bolted on. How far you can customize is the other difference.

How do you handle SSO with our identity provider?

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.

Can it handle 5,000 employees?

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.

What about data residency and security?

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.

How do you handle frontline employees without corporate email?

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.

What does an intranet engagement cost?

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.

Industry Internal portals

Internal portals and intranets that employees actually use.

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.

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20+ SSO integrations shipped since 2019

Why this industry

SharePoint shipped. Nobody opened it.

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.

HR and internal comms teams

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 people open because the work is there, not because they were told to.

Knowledge ops and internal documentation teams

Engineering wikis, sales playbooks, customer success runbooks, onboarding documentation. Searchable, editable, version-controlled, and integrated with the tools the team already uses.

Search that returns the document rather than a list of maybes.

Distributed and remote-first companies

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.

Field service and frontline workforces

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 built for a phone on a shift, not a desk.

BuddyBoss and BuddyPress for internal communities

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.

An intranet people use without being reminded to.

SSO with corporate identity providers

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.

Knowledge bases with search that works

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 ranks by what people actually open.

Employee directory and people pages

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.

A directory people search to find a person, not an org chart.

Mobile-first frontline portals

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.

Access that works from a shared device and from a personal phone.

Integration with the corporate stack

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.

enterprise intranets shipped since 2019

BuddyBoss and BuddyPress, with corporate SSO and knowledge base integration.

What it costs

What an intranet costs depends on how many systems it has to stand in front of.

An intranet is judged by whether people can find things and get in without friction. Both of those are integration problems more than design problems.

What moves the number

How many people, and how many are frontline Desk staff on corporate laptops and frontline workers on their own phones are two different products sharing one back end.
Single sign-on Connecting to a corporate identity provider is a fixed piece of work with a fixed set of surprises. It is rarely skippable.
Where the people data lives An employee directory is easy when HR is the source of truth and hard when three systems disagree about who works here.
Search that actually works Search across documents, pages and people is the difference between an intranet people use and one they do not, and it is engineering, not configuration.
How many corporate systems attach Each integration is scoped by the other end. Modern APIs are quick, legacy systems are not.

Rolling out a knowledge base on an intranet that already works is a contained piece of work, not a portal project.

Rough idea to delivery

You send the details What you want built, roughly, plus budget range and timing. The form asks for all of it
Within 4 business hours We read it and reply. Nothing is scheduled before we know what it is about
Then the call Free discovery, booked once there is enough on the table to make it worth your hour
Within 48 hours of the call A written fixed-price quote you approve before anything starts

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Quick enquiry

Intranet that people avoid?

Tell us how many people should be using it and how many actually do. The gap between those numbers is usually the brief.

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Why WordPress instead of SharePoint or Confluence?

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. BuddyBoss and BuddyPress were built for engagement rather than document storage, so recognition, activity and frontline delivery are native rather than bolted on. How far you can customize is the other difference.
How do you handle SSO with our identity provider?

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.
Can it handle 5,000 employees?

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.
What about data residency and security?

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.
How do you handle frontline employees without corporate email?

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.
What does an intranet engagement cost?

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.