What I build
Three kinds of job
Most work starts as one of these. Plenty of it ends up being all three, because the website is rarely the thing actually costing you the time.
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01
Websites
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.
Hand-built, not assembled from a template and a page builder. That's why they load in under a second on a phone on rural data, and why there's no monthly platform fee buried underneath.
- Written around your actual business, not a template with your logo dropped in
- Tested at phone width before desktop, because that's where your customers are
- Found on Google for your town and your trade, with the listing details matching
- A form that's tested, and that you'll know about the moment it stops working
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02
Booking & quoting tools
Let people see a price, pick a slot and book themselves, instead of you answering the same three questions every evening.
This is usually the part that pays for itself. The question people ring up to ask is almost always one a page can answer, and the ones who get an answer at nine at night are the ones who book.
- A live price that moves as they pick options, with the discounts applied for them
- Real availability, so a full groom shows two slots a day and a nail trim shows ten
- The enquiry arrives with everything you need to quote it, not just a name
- Rules you set once — minimum jobs, travel areas, lead times, closed days
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03
Small business automation
Order tracking, shipping, job boards, invoicing that chases itself. The jobs you do twice because the first system doesn't talk to the second.
This is the work I came from. Fifteen years of watching good businesses run on a whiteboard and somebody's memory, and watching what it costs when one of them fails on a Friday.
- The double entry removed — one place to type it, everywhere else reads from there
- Dates worked out backwards from the deadline, including supplier lead times
- A job board that can't book two crews into the same slot
- Invoices and reminders that go out without you remembering to send them
Most websites don't fail on the day they launch. They fail eighteen months later, when the hours are wrong, the form has quietly stopped sending, and the person who built it has stopped answering.
So looking after it is a real part of what I do, not an afterthought. It's a monthly arrangement, it's optional, and you can stop it whenever you like — the site is yours either way.
- Hosting, the domain renewal and the certificate — all of it off your desk
- Changes done for you: hours, prices, a new photo, a staff change, a service added
- The contact form tested every month, so it never quietly stops reaching you
- Backups, updates and uptime watched, so a problem is mine to notice first
- Your Google listing and the site's details kept matching, which is most of local search
- A short note each month on what came in and what I changed
How it works
Four steps, no surprises
A conversation
Twenty minutes on what your week looks like and where the time goes. No charge, and no pitch at the end of it.
A fixed price
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.
I build it
You see it part-built, not just at the end. Changes while it's in progress are easier than changes after.
It's yours
Live on your own domain, in your name, with the files handed over. No contract holding you anywhere.
What does it cost?
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.
Looking after it afterwards is a separate monthly arrangement, and it's optional. That price goes in writing too.
How long does it take?
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.
Do I actually own it?
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.
That's true whether or not you keep me on to look after it.
What happens when I need something changed?
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, that's the monthly arrangement. It stays optional, and you can stop it whenever.
Do you only do websites?
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.
Where do you work?
Across the North Okanagan — Vernon, Coldstream, Armstrong, Enderby, Lumby, Lake Country — and out to Kelowna and Kamloops. 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.
No cost, no pitch, no obligation.
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.
Takes about two minutes, and it's how I work out whether I'd actually be useful to you.