Alley

Alley is a company that specializes in creating digital solutions for publishers, offering a range of services including analytics, development, maintenance & support, and UX design. They provide tailored solutions for organizations through products like Helperbot, a Scrum assistant designed for distributed and co-located teams that integrates with Slack and Jira for effort estimation and rating tasks. Alley is proud to be a WordPress VIP Gold Agency Partner and has developed Lede, an adaptable technology platform for publishers.

Alley has worked on significant projects for clients such as Science News, Hachette Book Group, New York Post, Colorado Public Radio, and the National Science Foundation. They modernized the Science News site by migrating it from Drupal to WordPress and improving editorial workflows. For the New York Post, Alley handled one of the largest content migrations in the history of WordPress and implemented a new web publishing system to enhance editorial workflow and site performance. They revamped the Kauffman FastTrac site to support aspiring entrepreneurs with a user-friendly platform and redesigned the Hachette Book Group site to improve user experience and integrate e-commerce functionality. Additionally, Alley developed a headless site for Colorado Public Radio with a persistent audio player and improved user flow, and built a custom application for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics to enhance data exploration and visualization.