TYPO3 agency in Vienna —
accessible, GDPR-compliant, AI-accelerated.
For many years we have been building and maintaining successful TYPO3 websites for Austrian institutions, NGOs, associations and mid-sized companies. Designed for WCAG 2.1 AA, hosted in Austria or the EU, with AI-agent-assisted development at a pace that matches a 10-person team.
What a TYPO3 agency does for you — and what we add on top.
TYPO3 is the editorial system of choice for universities, corporations, public authorities, NGOs and mid-sized industry across Europe, especially in the DACH region. We support our clients’ portals across multiple major versions — from the first concept through ongoing maintenance and extension to major CMS upgrades.
TYPO3 development & extensions
New TYPO3 sites, site packages, custom content elements and extensions. Extbase/Fluid, modern frontends with Tailwind, Vite and Alpine. Site Sets instead of TypoScript templates.
Migration & version upgrades
Upgrades from TYPO3 10 / 11 / 12 to v14 LTS, including extension compatibility, deprecation fixes, template porting, database schema updates and editor training on the new backend.
Accessibility per EAA / BFSG 2025
WCAG 2.1 AA — technical audits, redesign of accessibility-critical elements, screen-reader testing, conformity statement under Austrian WZG / German BFSG. More on accessibility audits →
Maintenance, security & operations
TYPO3 security patches applied within 24 hours, performance monitoring, recurring health checks across multiple major versions. Commercial SLAs for mission-critical portals.
TYPO3 training
Editor training for TYPO3, tailored in-house workshops and onboarding for new teams. From the first login to news, container layouts and SEO. On-site in Vienna or remote.
The enterprise CMS trusted by public authorities, NGOs and half of the DAX.
More than half of DAX-listed companies, large public authorities, universities and NGOs across the DACH region have relied on TYPO3 for decades. The reasons: open-source, license-fee free, predictable in the long run, multi-language and multi-domain capable, highest security and quality standards, AI support, extremely extensible and scalable up to multi-tenant enterprise portals.
Arbeiter-Samariterbund, the Austrian Integration Fund, ministries and universities — clients with high demands on usability, security and scalability find a home with rockit and TYPO3.
Open-source instead of a five-figure licence fee. Your budget flows into functionality, not licences.
18 months of sprint releases plus 3 years of long-term support — guaranteed by the TYPO3 Association. You know today what you will pay in 2029.
One installation, any number of portals. Cleanly separated permissions. Federal organisation plus regional chapters, parent group plus subsidiary brands can run inside a single TYPO3 instance — without operating five parallel systems. That cuts cost and keeps things maintainable long-term.
Approval flows, workspaces, versioning, granular role and permission systems — all part of the TYPO3 core/standard.
Semantic HTML5, clean separation between content and layout, accessibility and SEO are anchored at the core — not bolted on afterwards. Extensions and add-ons fit seamlessly into the bigger picture.
These are the portals we look after — often for more than a decade.
A federal fund, a research society, a nationwide organisation, training centres — four very different scenarios with one common denominator: high demands on stability, accessibility and editor friendliness.
Arbeiter-Samariterbund Austria
Federal portal and regional chapters, maintained for many years across several TYPO3 major versions.
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Austrian Integration Fund
Portal for ÖIF, a fund of the Republic of Austria and federal partner in integration support.
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Christian Doppler Research Association
A research society at the intersection of academia and industry, with heavy editorial throughput.
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McDonald’s Del Frate
Franchise portal of the Del Frate group with multiple locations across Vienna and Lower Austria.
View case →Two people, AI agents at their back. Output of a 10-person team.
We work spec-driven and quality-focused: before any line of code there is a fully thought-through specification — decisions, architecture, test cases. Only then do we generate code with Claude Code agents, verify every step and integrate it into the existing codebase.
The result: features that take a classical agency weeks we deliver in days — without cutting quality, with tests, human code review and clean documentation.
Response time
Support requests answered within one working day, security-relevant TYPO3 minor updates rolled out and verified within a day.
rockit maintenance continuity
Some portals we have looked after across 4–5 major versions — without a system change.
Direct communication
German-speaking editor training, no offshore ticket queue.
No vendor lock-in
TYPO3 is open-source. Your code belongs to you. Any TYPO3 agency could take over.
Code that works today — and ten years from now.
We are certified TYPO3 integrators and work with the engineering practices that are standard in serious software houses. For a portal that you will run across three or four major versions, this pays off — maintenance hours stay predictable, instead of exploding year after year.
Certified TYPO3 integrators
Exam-certified, regular training and continuing education, direct line to the TYPO3 Association.
Spec-, test- and domain-driven design and development
Clean specs first, then unit tests, mostly based on a domain-driven coding model (as is standard in Extbase or Laravel) and after implementation E2E integration tests. That way bugs are caught while development continues.
Git and human code review for every line of code
Source control with code reviews, atomic commits, clear history. Every change is traceable — even seven years later.
Automated UI tests
Playwright safeguards visual stability after every deploy. If the header navigation breaks after an update, the system knows before your users do.
Data protection isn’t negotiable — it’s built in.
GDPR has been in force since 2018. We build TYPO3 sites that work without tracking pixels, Google Fonts or unchecked third-party embeds. If something does load, then only after explicit user consent — and cleanly documented in the cookie statement.
Matomo instead of Google Analytics
Self-hosted on Austrian servers, with IP anonymisation by default. No data leaves the EU. Full visibility into user behaviour on your website without any data-protection risk.
Legally correct cookie consent
When declined, tracking is genuinely not loaded — meaning third-party servers like Google are not contacted at all. We use the Cookieman extension for fine-grained, per-service control.
Two-click loading for third parties
YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud only load after explicit confirmation — until then we display locally stored preview images. Without user confirmation, no hidden data is sent to third parties here either.
Self-hosted fonts
Fonts live on your server, not on Google’s. No data leakage on every page view, fully GDPR-compliant — and faster as a side effect.
From the requirements workshop to a responsive go-live — and beyond.
Clear requirements at the start. Four clean sprints in the middle. A responsive end product. Plus maintenance beyond that.
Intro call
30 minutes, free of charge. You describe your current state, your goal and your constraints.
Requirements workshop
Brand clarity, target audiences, content hierarchy. We listen, we ask — and walk out of the workshop with a sharp picture of your requirements.
Design & concept
Concept, architecture proposal, FIGMA prototype for desktop/tablet/smartphone, fixed-price range. You see the finished website before the first line of code is written.
Sprint delivery
Two-week sprints with a runnable build at every checkpoint. Tailwind 4, semantic HTML5, performance-optimised. Editors can train along, we iterate.
Go-live
Roll-out of your finished responsive website on the server of your choice. Including a reproducible deployment workflow.
Operations & maintenance
Security patches, LTS upgrades, new features as needed — for years.
What decision-makers typically ask us.
What does a TYPO3 website cost?
Simple corporate sites start at around EUR 5,000, typical institutional portals fall between EUR 10,000 and 80,000. After an initial audit we name a fixed-price frame.
We are still on TYPO3 10 or 11. How does an upgrade to v14 work?
Under the hood, TYPO3 updates always have to run iteratively, step by step: v10 → v11 → v12 → v13 → v14 LTS. We check every extension in use for v14 compatibility, migrate templates to Site Sets, replace deprecations and deliver editor training on the new backend. Typical duration: 1–4 weeks depending on size.
Our previous TYPO3 agency no longer exists — can you take over?
Yes, regularly. We run an onboarding, a code and infrastructure audit, document the legacy site, take over hosting on request and bring the installation up to current security standards. TYPO3 is open-source — any professional TYPO3 agency can take over at any time.
Is the site WCAG (EAA / BFSG / WZG) accessible?
Accessibility is our default, not an add-on. We ship to WCAG 2.1 AA, test with screen readers (NVDA, VoiceOver) and produce the legally required accessibility statement. Existing sites we audit as a separate engagement.
Do we train our editors ourselves, or do you do it?
We train — in German or English, on-site in Vienna or remote. The typical format: two sessions of 90 minutes plus a short written guide for new editors. For existing clients we run refresher workshops at every version upgrade.
Why TYPO3 and not WordPress or Drupal?
In Europe, TYPO3 is the first choice for public authorities, NGOs and large companies with strict demands on permission and role systems, multilingualism, auditability and editorial workflows. WordPress is excellent for blogs and small sites but runs out of room with these requirements. See the “Why TYPO3?” section above.
30 minutes is enough to know whether we’re a fit.
No sales pitch. You walk us through where you are and where you want to go, we tell you honestly how we can help — or who would be a better fit.
Or write three sentences about your TYPO3 project — we reply within 24 hours.