Most small businesses don't need a marketing company. They need someone to work out what's eating the week, and build something that handles it. That's the job. You deal with me start to finish — the person who builds it is the person who answers the phone.
Not mockups. Working tools you can click through — pick options, watch the price move, book a slot. Have a go at them.
Someone answers four questions about their place — type of clean, bedrooms, bathrooms, how often — and the price updates as they go. Regular visits discount automatically. Then they pick a day and it's booked.
The owner stops quoting by text at nine at night. The customer stops waiting until Tuesday to find out what it costs.
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"What's my home worth" is the most searched thing in real estate, and most agents answer it with a contact form. This one answers it. Six questions about the house, then a price range with the comparable sales that justify it.
The seller gets a real number instead of a brush-off. The agent gets a name, an email and an address — which is the entire point of the exercise.
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Pick a service and the next fortnight redraws with real availability for that appointment length — a full groom shows one or two slots a day, a nail trim shows a dozen. Closed days are closed. Pick a time and it's taken.
No more "when's your next opening?" messages at eleven at night, and the scarcity does its own selling.
Built for demonstration
Seven day columns. Tap what you need on each one — group walk, solo walk, trail, drop-in, overnight — and the weekly and monthly totals update live. Four or more visits triggers the regular-client discount on its own.
No "contact us for pricing". The customer builds the thing they want and sees what it costs while they do it.
Built for demonstration
So that's where it gets designed. Not shrunk down afterwards and hoped for.
Text you can read without pinching, buttons big enough to hit with a thumb, and nothing running off the side of the screen. Every site I build gets tested at phone width before it goes anywhere near a desktop.
Check any of them on your own phone right now — that's rather the point.
Sidekick Quote is a quoting and production system for a cabinet shop. It's the kind of thing I build when the real bottleneck is further inside the business.
Built for a fictional shop so I could show it. The same thinking works for any business where materials, labour and dates have to line up.
Most work starts as one of these. Plenty of it ends up being all three.
A site that loads fast, works on a phone, and has a contact form that genuinely reaches you. Your content, your domain, and yours to keep.
Let people see a price, pick a slot and book themselves, instead of you answering the same three questions every evening.
Order tracking, shipping, job boards, invoicing that chases itself. The jobs you do twice because the first system doesn't talk to the second.
Twenty minutes on what your week looks like and where the time goes. No charge, and no pitch at the end of it.
A number in writing, with what's in it and what isn't. If I think the job isn't worth doing, I'll say so.
You see it part-built, not just at the end. Changes while it's in progress are easier than changes after.
Live on your own domain, in your name, with the files handed over. No contract holding you anywhere.
I'm Justin. I build small business automation — order tracking, shipping systems, quoting tools — and the websites they sit behind.
Time on the shop floor in millwork, then years on the sales and customer service side of distribution. I've spent a long while watching good businesses run on sticky notes, a whiteboard and somebody's memory, and watching what it costs them when one of those three fails.
So when you tell me what's going wrong, I don't need it translated. And because it's just me, the person who builds it is the person who answers the phone when it breaks.
I'd rather have three local businesses I can point at than a price list. So the next three are on me — I want the portfolio and the honest feedback, and that's the whole trade.
Takes about two minutes. It's how I work out whether I'd actually be useful to you.
It depends on the job, and I'd rather look at it than guess at a number. What I can promise is a fixed price in writing before anything starts, with what's included and what isn't — not an hourly rate that drifts.
Right now the first three builds are free, so the honest answer might be nothing.
A straightforward website is usually two to three weeks from our first conversation. Something with a booking or quoting tool in it is more like four to six.
I do this alongside a day job, so I'm honest about timelines up front rather than promising a week and disappearing.
Yes. The domain is in your name, the site is on your hosting, and you get the files. If you want to take it elsewhere next year, you take it elsewhere — there's nothing holding it hostage.
Message me and I'll do it. Small changes — hours, prices, a new photo, a staff change — are usually same-day.
If you'd rather not think about hosting, renewals and whether your form still works, I can look after all of that for a small monthly fee. That's optional, and it stays optional.
No, and the website is usually the least interesting part. The work that saves people real time is the automation behind it — order tracking, quoting, scheduling, invoicing, the job board that stops living on a whiteboard.
If you've got a job you do twice because two systems don't talk to each other, that's the conversation I want to have.
Because I'd rather show someone a thing I built than talk about what I could build. Three real projects I can point at is worth more to me right now than three invoices.
After those three, I charge like anybody else.
Across the Okanagan — Vernon, Armstrong, Enderby, Lumby, Kelowna and everywhere in between. I'm based in Falkland.
Most of the work happens remotely, but I'll happily come and sit in your shop for an hour if that's what it takes to understand the job.
Tell me what's eating your week. If I can help, I'll tell you how. If I can't, I'll tell you that too — and probably who can.
Tell me about your business