First-everThe 2027 State of DOAP Survey is open.Take the survey

v0 for prompt-to-app building, on Vercel’s front-end cloud.

Collecting interest
The DOAP Score

How well Vercel supports the people who look after it

AI-generated estimate89/100 · LeadingTop tier
  1. Protect91
  2. Change100
  3. Observe79
  4. Governance82
  5. Documentation97
  6. Data76
  7. Integrate85
  8. Support92
  9. Agents100
  10. Security83

The synopsis

AI-generated draft
  • ProtectLeading91

    Backup and restore is a first-class part of Vercel, with the controls the practice needs.

  • ChangeLeading100

    Code management, staging and rollback is a first-class part of Vercel, with the controls the practice needs.

  • ObserveOptimizing79

    Vercel supports schema monitoring and change visibility well enough to measure and tune it; much of it is self-service.

  • GovernanceOptimizing82

    Vercel supports users, authentication and access control well enough to measure and tune it; much of it is self-service.

  • DocumentationLeading97

    Documentation in the platform and across teams is a first-class part of Vercel, with the controls the practice needs.

  • DataOptimizing76

    Vercel supports data cleansing, hygiene and integrity well enough to measure and tune it; much of it is self-service.

  • IntegrateLeading85

    Integrations and how they are secured is a first-class part of Vercel, with the controls the practice needs.

  • SupportLeading92

    Support from the platform and to end users is a first-class part of Vercel, with the controls the practice needs.

  • AgentsLeading100

    Using AI in the job, and managing it inside the platform is a first-class part of Vercel, with the controls the practice needs.

  • SecurityOptimizing83

    Vercel supports access, secrets, audit and compliance well enough to measure and tune it; much of it is self-service.

This is an estimate until the survey closes. After that, it is the score from everyone who answered for Vercel, labeled survey-generated and published with its report.

Steering committee and working groups

Three bodies, seats open.

The people who run Vercel’s part of the Alliance: a steering committee of five that makes the decisions, a certification working group that writes the exam, and an ops working group that looks after the community.

  • Platform Steering Committee5 per platform

    Everything specific to one platform. Reports to the Board.

    Seats open
  • Platform Certification Working GroupPer platform

    The deep experts. Drafts platform-specific questions and scoring for the Committee to approve.

    Seats open
  • Platform Ops Working GroupUncapped

    Content and moderation within the platform’s community.

    Seats open
Express interest in a seatSee the committee roles →The join form asks where you would serve.

Vercel has not joined as a participating platform member. It is here because the people who use it registered for it.

Launching 2027

Join for Vercel.

Every name on the join form counts toward the twenty Vercel needs to open, and toward seating its steering committee.

  1. Sep 2026 · nowFounding members join

    Gathering initial interest: your name on the join form, and the first survey open, for every platform.

  2. Q1 2027First survey opens

    The industry report, the rubric published with it, and the first benchmark.

  3. Summer 2027The Alliance forms

    Three platforms at twenty, steering committees seated, the benefit corporation filed.

  4. AfterCertification opens

    The exam follows the nine domains the survey measures.