Specbee: Doing More for Clients, for Less

For most organizations, the pain point is not the CMS. It is the budget. A fixed amount gets set aside each year, and then a surge in traffic or an ambitious new idea throws the whole plan off. Many teams also lack the in-house expertise to maintain a system like Drupal the way best practice demands.

In this video, Jim Barnthouse, chief revenue officer at Drupal agency Specbee, explains how Acquia Source changes that equation. Hosting, maintenance, and migrations come bundled into one package, at one price, set for the year, which solves the budget problem outright. Maintenance and upgrades are fully vetted and handled, not left as a box to check.

Source also brings teams together. Instead of routing every request through development, a marketer can describe the component they need, an image on the left, bullet points on the right, and ask the site to build it, on brand and within governance, in minutes.

Jim is candid about the fear that AI replaces jobs. Specbee has not let go of a single person. Instead, the team retrains developers to build with AI, taking on work that used to be too slow and too expensive to justify. Projects clients could never afford before are suddenly within reach, and the time saved even makes room for the UX research teams usually skip.

Watch the full story to see how Source puts the power of the website into the client's hands, and moves the agency's value to where it matters most.