Mobile Design Platform Backend: Headless CMS · Secure File Delivery · OAuth-Protected API
Built the headless backend system powering Belgard Design Studio’s mobile companion applications, enabling secure project collaboration, file storage, and cloud synchronization across field and desktop workflows.
The platform used Drupal as a headless system of record rather than a traditional website CMS. Mobile clients interacted with a purpose-built REST API while Drupal managed authentication, roles, structured content, media relationships, and private file storage.
This architecture gave Belgard a secure coordination layer between field sales, design production, and customer-facing review.
Belgard Design Studio is a contractor-facing design platform for outdoor living projects. Contractors use it to document customer properties, collaborate with Belgard designers, and present realistic design concepts that help homeowners move from idea to approval. The system combines desktop design tools, mobile applications, and cloud infrastructure to support project creation, visualization, and client engagement.
The backend handled the secure project data layer behind that workflow. It stored property details, contractor and designer assignments, project status, private notes and comments, uploaded site photos, sketches, renderings, flythroughs, and presentation assets.
The value of the system was not just storage. It connected the moment of sale, standing on-site with a homeowner, to the design team’s production workflow and back to the customer through the app. That reduced handoff friction, improved project accuracy, and gave Belgard better structured insight into its contractor-driven sales pipeline.