Organization Summary
Meet Dead North
Dead North is a Minneapolis studio focused on Drupal maintenance, upgrades, and rescues β sites we didn't build, whoever built them. The practice maintains Enhanced Taxonomy Manager (ETM), running on 97+ production sites per drupal.org's usage counter, and Enhanced Menu Manager (EMM). One senior engineer, Drupal versions 5 through 11 since 2013, published pricing for maintenance programs ($350β$1,200/mo) and fixed-price upgrade assessments.
Drupal Contributions
Contributed modules, actively maintained: Enhanced Taxonomy Manager (https://www.drupal.org/project/etm) β a replacement for core's taxonomy UI built for vocabularies up to 100,000+ terms, currently reporting 97 production installs via drupal.org usage statistics. Enhanced Menu Manager (https://www.drupal.org/project/emm). Both authored and maintained by Dane Petersen (https://www.drupal.org/u/thronedigital), including ongoing issue-queue support, releases, and Drupal 10/11 compatibility work.
Community & support: Active on drupal.org since 2013 across Drupal versions 5 through 11. Issue-queue support for both maintained modules.
Marketing contributions: Regular technical Drupal writing at https://deadnorth.io/notes/ (upgrade methodology, migration practices), and a free community resource at https://deadnorth.io/drupal-7-census β a live, auto-updating aggregation of drupal.org's public core-usage data tracking the Drupal 7 long tail.