Toyota Research Institute (TRI) leads advanced research in artificial intelligence, robotics, and next-generation mobility. With teams distributed across the U.S., TRI needed systems that support how their teams actually work.
Cultural Fit & Partnership Philosophy
Long-term partnerships like this one don’t happen by accident. The fit comes from a shared way of thinking: Toyota Research Institute (TRI) approaches every problem with engineering rigor, and so do we, with the added ability to translate that rigor into brand, communication, and systems that serve the mission rather than complicate it.
Team Depth & Cross-discipline Capability
Marker Seven brings senior practitioners who operate at the intersection of enterprise technology and sophisticated brand communication. Our people have the depth to engage TRI’s engineers, researchers, and leadership credibly, and the craft to translate that complexity into communications that work in the real world.
Cloud Architecture & AWS Engineering
The TRI platform runs on a fully enterprise-grade AWS environment provisioned and version-controlled on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Terraform automation, meaning the entire stack is defined as code and can be rebuilt from scratch in minutes. We use custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) baked with the full application configuration, paired with Auto Scaling Groups that respond dynamically to traffic. When an instance fails or demand spikes, the platform recovers automatically, fully configured, and serving traffic without manual intervention. This is what it means to build for an organization that cannot afford downtime.
Monitoring, Alerting & Operational Resilience
We don't wait for something to break. Using AWS CloudWatch canary monitoring, continuous synthetic checks are implemented against the live environment, verifying that critical paths are functional and responses are always within threshold. Always verifying critical paths and response thresholds. When something deviates, even before it surfaces to users, the alerting pipeline fires, our team triages immediately, and we resolve before most issues become incidents. This is the operational standard we hold ourselves to for an organization like TRI.
CMS Engineering & Platform Maintenance
The TRI website is built on Drupal, chosen for its security architecture, flexibility, and capacity to support complex content models at scale. We maintain an active development cadence covering core and module updates, custom component development, and continuous improvements to the content editing experience. Our release process is structured, tested, and coordinated with TRI’s internal teams before any change reaches production. This is a living platform, and we treat it that way.
Partnership Value & Differentiation
There are many agencies that can build a website. Very few can hold the brand, the infrastructure, the security posture, and the institutional knowledge of an organization like TRI, simultaneously, reliably, over years. We built TRI’s platform to enterprise standards, and we maintain it with the same rigor. That combination of technical depth and genuine brand understanding is rare. It is what makes a long-term partnership like this one work.
Security Integration & Change Management
Security isn't a gate at the end of a release, it's built into how we work. Every infrastructure change, platform update, and integration follows a structured change management process that includes pre-deployment security reviews, documented change history, and coordination with the client's security function from the start. For TRI, that means active participation in their internal audit cycles and full transparency within their governance model. This isn't a custom arrangement for one client. It's the standard we hold every engagement to.
What We Delivered
