BRAND, GOVERNANCE AND AUTONOMY
Comillas transforms its digital ecosystem.
From 16,218 pages to a website that finally represents it. Universidad Pontificia de Comillas needed to come across as innovative, rigorous and distinctive in each of its schools — and it got there in 12 months, ahead of schedule.
WHO IS COMILLAS?
A pioneering university that needed a website to match.
Universidad Pontificia de Comillas combines more than a century of academic tradition with a genuine commitment to innovation.
Under its umbrella brand sit faculties with names of their own — ICADE, ICAI — each with its logo, its colour and its audience.
For Comillas, its digital presence has to hold that complexity: give every unit fair visibility, keep brand coherence and be a real tool in the communications team's hands.
THE CHALLENGE
A digital presence with plenty of room to grow.
The Comillas team identified four priorities that would shape the project.
An outdated image
The previous platform projected an image that did not reflect the institution's values. In the team's own words: "the old website smelled of mothballs."
Dependence on IT
Everything had to go through IT or communications before being published. With a large editorial team spread across the whole institution, that bottleneck was unsustainable.
Content overflow
The site had piled up 16,218 pages with visual inconsistencies that disoriented visitors, prospective students above all.
Sub-brands without coherence
ICADE, ICAI and the other faculties had strong identities the website could not handle without breaking the coherence of the whole.
WHAT CHANGED
In numbers, and in how the team works.
After rolling out Griddo, Comillas gained internal productivity and brand coherence across its whole ecosystem.
Plus technical performance that works in favour of recruitment, not against it.
Performance index
85%
Reduction in load times
80%
Fewer pages (from 16,218 to 3,894)
75%
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
What Comillas says about Griddo.
GRIDDO AS THE SOLUTION
One platform, 3,894 pages and a team that works with autonomy.
Comillas chose Griddo as its centralised DXP to transform its web presence.
The project ran for 12 months and was delivered ahead of schedule.
Centralised ecosystem management
Griddo made it possible to consolidate 16,218 pages into 3,894 — a 75% reduction — unifying the whole digital presence under one platform with coherence guaranteed.
Editorial team autonomy
More than 200 people across the institution can publish without depending on IT, with the brand manual built into the platform. How that access is structured — roles, permissions, approval flows — is each institution's call, according to its governance model.
Wired into the heart of Comillas
Programme registry data is shown directly in Griddo, with no manual updates across several sites and no risk of mismatches. AWS infrastructure with FTR certification and 8 live integrations from a single environment.
We don't have to be monitoring the coherence, the narrative because Griddo already provides it.
EMBEDDED DESIGN SYSTEM
A design system built for Comillas alone.
Griddo's Embedded Design System solved the sub-brand challenge natively: 47 modules with a colour system that varies by unit.
Each faculty keeps its identity. Comillas keeps the coherence of the whole.
The Comillas DS is published as Brand Personalis — a living BrandSite, open to every editor, that updates itself whenever the design system evolves.
The brand manual stops being a document you have to go and look up: it is built into the platform, and there is no way around it.
LIVE AUTHOR EXPERIENCE + EMBEDDED DESIGN SYSTEM
Edit, see the result, publish. That easy.
Griddo's architecture was designed for the autonomy of the Comillas communications team.
Any editor sees changes in real time before publishing.
No surprises. No waiting.
- A true preview before publishing. Live Author Experience shows exactly how the page will look on a student's device.
- Brand protected by default. The Embedded Design System guarantees consistency without manual reviews — across Comillas and every sub-brand.
- No tickets, no waiting. The team publishes whenever it wants, without depending on anyone.
MULTISITE + GOVERNANCE
A whole ecosystem. One place to manage it.
Each faculty keeps its identity. All of them share the same way of working.
Griddo unified the Comillas ecosystem under one platform: ICADE, ICAI and the rest of the faculties. No duplicated content, no jumping between tools, and no loss of coherence when a department updates its own section.
COLLABORATION + OPTIMIZATION
A faster, better-positioned website from day one.
Secuoyas handled the design and front-end development, improving the navigation architecture with a clear content hierarchy that reduces cognitive load, and optimising for outstanding Core Web Vitals.
According to Search Console, 85% of URLs improved, and LCP settled at 1.8 seconds. Prospective students find information fast, and Google notices.
YOUR UNIVERSITY IS NEXT
The new Comillas website is a strategic lever.
Yours can be one too.
A platform that holds the brand together, spreads the work out and lets the communications team get on with its job.
You can too
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