// about charged labs
Drupal and WordPress quietly power a huge share of the internet. Over the last decade the frontend world got fast, composable, and genuinely good to work in. CMS theming mostly stayed where it was. Charged Labs is built to close that gap.
01 / Why we exist
After fifteen years building Drupal and WordPress sites, you stop blaming yourself for the friction.
Every convenience the JavaScript ecosystem takes for granted — a local environment that starts in seconds, a component library you actually want to reach for, deploys that don’t need a runbook — was missing or bolted on after the fact.
Charged Labs is the answer to that, built by someone who shipped in this ecosystem long enough to know exactly where it hurts. Not a rewrite of the CMS. A modern layer on top of the platforms that already run real sites for real organizations.
02 / What we believe
The age of a platform says nothing about the experience of building on it. A mature, battle-tested CMS and a fast, modern workflow are not a tradeoff you should have to make.
No hosting lock-in, no proprietary runtime you can’t walk away from. Charged Cloud is a control plane: your compute, your data, your exit.
Charged compiles Tailwind at runtime in PHP. Theming a site shouldn’t mean standing up a separate JavaScript build chain just to ship a utility class.
Components are light-DOM web components, not logic trapped inside one framework’s lifecycle. They work in Twig, in blocks, and in whatever ships next.
You inherit and override a real base theme. You don’t copy a starter kit and quietly inherit its bugs forever, with no clean path back to upstream.
No venture capital, no growth-at-all-costs roadmap. Charged Labs answers to the developers who use it. That constraint is a feature.
03 / The lineup
The open-source Drupal base theme. The foundation everything else builds on.
drupal.org / mikostel
A premium, light-DOM component library for teams that ship on a deadline.
component library
A desktop app for local Drupal development. FrankenPHP, MariaDB, and Caddy, set up for you.
macOS · Windows · Linux
A deployment control plane. You keep your own compute; it coordinates the pipeline.
in development
An Elite-author ThemeForest theme, and the proof that better tooling sells itself.
850+ sites shipped
04 / Who’s behind it
Founder, Charged Labs
Fifteen years in the Drupal and WordPress ecosystem, a Staff-level frontend background at companies like Flipgrid and Parsley Health, and an Elite ThemeForest author behind one of the platform’s top-selling themes. Charged Labs is what happens when one person who has spent a career inside this ecosystem decides to build the tools it always deserved, and ships them.
What’s next
Built in the open. Built to last.
No venture capital, no growth-at-all-costs roadmap. Charged Labs answers to the developers who use it — and ships the tools they’ve been waiting for.