Earlier this week, in "Drupal's role in agentic workflows", I argued that Drupal's AI future has two parts: helping people with AI inside Drupal, and helping agents use Drupal from the outside.
So we are splitting Drupal's AI strategy into two workstreams. Inside AI is led by Christoph Breidert, who has been driving that work already. Outside AI, the new workstream, is led by Scott Falconer.
The easiest way to think about the difference: with Inside AI, a person uses Drupal, and Drupal uses AI to help. With Outside AI, a person uses an agent, and the agent uses Drupal.
We launched the Drupal AI Initiative one year ago, in June 2025, with a published strategy. A year later it spans 32 organizations and more than 50 contributors, shipping against a public 2026 roadmap through two paid delivery teams.
So far, most of that work has focused on Inside AI, though much of the foundation also supports Outside AI.
Outside AI will serve three kinds of users:
If we are successful, agents will recommend Drupal to new users, help Drupal developers move faster, help agencies win more work, and use Drupal as the trusted layer for content management and governance. Thank you to everyone who helped bring the Drupal AI Initiative to this point. Together, the community has turned an ambitious idea into real momentum.
I'm excited about what comes next! Want to get involved? Join the #ai-initiative channel on Drupal Slack.