# Industries > We build for regulated and mission-driven industries: government, pharmaceutical, nonprofit, academic, enterprise, travel and startups. Source: https://lastdoorsolutions.com/industries ## Government ### Federal compliance is the job. We build and maintain US government websites: federal offices, commissions, and committee sites. Every page meets Section 508 accessibility standards. Every CMS is designed so non-technical government staff can publish content without developer assistance. Every deployment follows the security requirements the office sets, on the office's patch schedule. The compliance requirements are non-negotiable. The content is politically sensitive, meaning zero tolerance for errors or unauthorized changes. And the CMS must be simple enough that government staff can publish a press release without filing a support ticket. We build on our block theme architecture with visual regression testing, so updates to one site do not break another. We handle PHP upgrades, security patches and accessibility audits on federal timelines. Our admin interfaces strip WordPress down to essential functions, with custom content types that enforce the site's structure automatically. **Key capabilities:** - Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 AA compliance - CMS for non-technical staff (custom admin interfaces, simplified publishing) - Visual regression testing (Playwright) across all .gov properties - PHP upgrades and security patches on federal schedules - Content governance workflows for politically sensitive material **Proof:** 6+ .gov websites built and maintained. No failed accessibility audit on the sites we maintain. Multi-year maintenance relationships across all properties. PHP 8 upgrades completed across all government sites. **Example work:** US government office websites with constituent services, legislative tracking, and media resources. Federal commission site managing decades of policy publications and hearing records. House committee sites with ethics oversight and budget documentation. ## Pharmaceutical & Biotech ### 10+ pharmaceutical brands. Zero regulatory compliance incidents in 25+ engagements. Pharmaceutical marketing teams work under rules most web teams never meet. Every page must pass medical, legal, and regulatory (MLR) review. Content for healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients must be kept separate, with different websites, navigation, disclaimers, and URLs. Update cycles follow regulatory submissions, not marketing calendars. We build and maintain the full digital ecosystem for pharmaceutical brands: HCP portals, patient websites, formulary toolkits, instiller toolkits, medical device microsites, and HTML email campaigns. Our CMS architecture separates approved regulatory content from design and layout changes. Staging environments give marketing teams a preview before anything hits production. Quarterly update cycles run on schedule with defined scope and deliverables. This is continuous pharmaceutical web operations rather than project work. We work across multiple brands simultaneously, maintaining HCP/patient separation, regulatory content workflows, and quarterly update cadences for each. A single phase on one brand was approved at 250 hours, reflecting the depth of regulatory content and interactive elements involved. **Key capabilities:** - HCP/patient content separation (distinct sites per audience) - Regulatory review workflow integration (MLR-approved content only) - Quarterly update cycles aligned with regulatory submissions - Formulary toolkits and instiller guides - Medical device microsites - Pharma-compliant HTML email campaigns **Proof:** 10+ pharmaceutical brands across 25+ project engagements. Multi-year continuous engagement with multiple pharma companies. Zero regulatory compliance incidents across those engagements. Quarterly update cycles maintained on schedule. Single-phase projects of 250+ hours in scope. **Example work:** Full digital ecosystem for a specialty gastroenterology brand (HCP, patient, formulary kit, clinical program microsite, provider locator). A pre-launch brand with HCP/patient separation and a Day 0 site. A neurology brand with caregiver email campaigns. Fertility treatment portals with quarterly content updates. Medical device microsites with ongoing maintenance. ## Nonprofits & Advocacy ### 20+ national nonprofits. Accessibility is the baseline. National nonprofits manage content, advocacy, rules, and fundraising at once. Their websites serve donors, policymakers, media, program participants, and the public. Content is detailed, sensitive, and frequently updated. Donations must be easy and follow the rules, and for organizations receiving federal funding, accessibility is a legal requirement. We build nonprofit websites on our block theme architecture. Each site gets its own child theme for visual customization, but shares a core foundation with built-in accessibility, performance, and SEO. Donation integration runs through Bloomerang, custom payment portals, and Postmark for transactional email. We have migrated organizations from WordPress to Payload CMS. We have built learning management system (LMS) and SCORM integrations for educational nonprofits, and searchable libraries of policy briefs, legal resources and research. **Key capabilities:** - WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility across all properties - Donation integration (Bloomerang, custom payment portals, Postmark) - Resource hubs and searchable content libraries - LMS / SCORM integration for educational programming - Payload CMS migration (headless, TypeScript-native) - Multi-stakeholder content governance - Campaign site deployment **Proof:** 20+ national nonprofits. Multi-year maintenance relationships. No failed accessibility audit on the sites we maintain. Donation platform integration. LMS/SCORM integration for online education delivery. PHP 8 upgrades completed across all maintained properties. Payload CMS migrations delivered. **Example work:** Full redesign for a national legal advocacy organization with a resource hub and action fund. Advocacy organization with PAC separation and donation infrastructure. Research nonprofit with a headless CMS migration. Interfaith organization with LMS/SCORM integration. Conservation, medical association, social justice, and university supporter sites. ## Academic & Research ### Research portals for institutions that publish. Academic and research institutions have different needs than commercial organizations. Their websites must present complex research findings in accessible formats. Registry platforms must handle participant enrollment and data management. Content spans decades and must remain findable and citable. The audience includes researchers, media, funding bodies, and the general public. We built the web portal for the UK's largest adult twin registry, run by the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology at King's College London. The site handles twin registration, research publication, and public engagement for a registry that has contributed to hundreds of peer-reviewed studies. We also built the website for the British Gut Project, a citizen science study of the gut microbiome. This work requires understanding how research institutions operate: long publication cycles, multi-investigator content governance, grant-funded timelines, and the need to make dense scientific content accessible to non-specialist audiences. **Key capabilities:** - Research portal design and development - Participant registry platforms - Data-driven content architecture - Multi-stakeholder content governance (researchers, communications, leadership) - Accessible presentation of scientific data - Long-term content architecture spanning decades of research **Proof:** Built the web portal for the UK's largest adult twin registry. The website for the British Gut Project. Direct relationships with UK academic institutions. **Example work:** Twin research registry platform with participant enrollment, research publications, and public engagement. Citizen science research project website. Academic department portals with publication management and team directories. ## Enterprise & SaaS ### One platform, 8+ years. We have maintained one enterprise data platform for 8+ years. The backend uses .NET 8.0, Clean Architecture, and domain-driven design. The frontend uses React 19 on an enterprise design system. Azure hosts the infrastructure, with Entity Framework Core, Finbuckle for multi-tenancy, and JWT/OIDC for authentication. The codebase has changed for 8+ years without a major rewrite. Clean Architecture and domain-driven design (DDD) are there to prevent the "rewrite everything" moment. A designer from our leadership team is embedded on the product, responsible for product strategy, UX architecture and design system governance. We also build internal tools and SaaS products. Our Orkest platform (Laravel + React + InertiaJS) handles orchestration and operational tooling, with AI capabilities. We build custom dashboards, analytics platforms, and workflow automation. For enterprise teams, we bring the full stack: architecture, development, design systems, CI/CD, and long-term product ownership. **Key capabilities:** - .NET 8.0 / C# with Clean Architecture and DDD - Multi-tenant architecture (Finbuckle) - Enterprise design system implementation - React 19 + TypeScript frontend with Storybook - Azure DevOps CI/CD with staged deployments - Long-term product ownership (not staff augmentation) **Proof:** 8-year enterprise platform partnership (ongoing). Clean Architecture codebase maintained without major rewrites. Enterprise design system. Multi-tenant platform serving isolated business units. Automated CI/CD. **Example work:** Enterprise data platform with multi-tenancy, role-based access, and complex data interfaces. SaaS orchestration platform. Custom analytics dashboards. Design system implementation with Storybook component documentation. DevOps pipeline with automated testing and staged deployments. ## Travel & Hospitality ### 60+ travel sites. No two alike. We have built 60+ adventure and hospitality sites. Each is built around how that operator works: ACF blocks where editors want blocks, full site editing where they want the theme in their own hands, or WordPress and WooCommerce customized end to end where the business is selling. We do not reuse a theme between operators. Every build carries our own plugins: a Himalayan Bank payment gateway for direct booking, a departure manager for seasonal pricing, a trip filter by destination, duration, difficulty, altitude and price, and a site search tuned for trip content. The plugins are ours, so we fix a booking fault in code we own and answer an advisory across the portfolio the same day. The process holds the quality: what we ask before we design, how we model trip content, how we test a booking flow against a real season, and how we write down a brand voice before anyone writes a page. Our content team runs content and SEO across the portfolio: 30+ brand voices, 7,500 to 20,000 words per site per month, programmatic SEO and LLM SEO. [See the full travel portfolio](/industries/travel). **Key capabilities:** - A design and a build per operator: ACF blocks, full site editing, or WordPress and WooCommerce customized end to end - TravelBase, our product for solo guides and early-stage travel startups - Custom payment gateway (Himalayan Bank + WooCommerce) - Trip booking, departure management, seasonal pricing - SEO at scale (60+ sites, programmatic SEO, LLM SEO) - Content operations (30+ brand voices, 7,500-20,000 words/site/month) - Next.js migration for select properties **Proof:** 60+ travel and hospitality sites, each designed and built for that operator. 4 custom WordPress plugins (payment gateway, trip filter, departure manager, site search). 30+ documented brand voice profiles. Next.js migrations in progress for select sites. **Example work:** Full-service adventure travel platforms with booking, payments, and departure management. Expedition company sites with high-altitude trip management. Wildlife safari and river rafting platforms. Hotel and hospitality properties. Film production location services. Wellness and spiritual travel sites. ## Startups & Product Companies ### We join your GitHub, attend your standups, and ship your product. We work with startups as engineers on your team: same GitHub org, same tools, same codebase, same pull request workflow. The only difference is the time zone, and that works in your favor. Our highest-profile startup engagement is with a $52M venture-backed consumer IoT company. We are embedded in their 16-person engineering team, contributing .NET backend services, infrastructure and DevOps for an IoT product in active consumer use across thousands of connected devices. Startups get senior engineers at a fraction of US hiring costs, without the ramp-up time of a traditional vendor engagement. We understand startup pace: continuous deployment, rapid iteration, shipping over planning. We also bring the engineering discipline that keeps technical debt from slowing them down as they scale. **Key capabilities:** - Embedded engineering (join your GitHub org, PR-based workflow) - .NET / C# backend services and infrastructure - IoT product engineering (ESP32, device telemetry, cloud backends) - Startup-pace development with tested, reviewed code - Full-stack capability (React, Next.js, Laravel, Python) - Architecture advice at CTO level **Proof:** Embedded in a $52M venture-backed startup's engineering team. Contributing to a product with thousands of connected devices in consumer use. Multi-year engagement with growing scope. **Example work:** Backend services and infrastructure for a smart home IoT product. Real-time device telemetry processing. Keycloak SSO integration. Email and notification services for IoT insights reports. Deployment automation and service monitoring.