A software studio in North Vancouver. We build our own software and custom websites for local business — hand-coded, fast on a phone, and shot with photo and video we make ourselves.
A phone and a laptop, both running one of our custom-built websites.
Why it matters
Same words, same services, same prices. Only the design changed — and that alone decides whether someone believes you can do the job.
Custom-built sites for restaurants, studios, clinics, and venues around the North Shore. We shoot the photos and video ourselves, write the copy, and hand you something that loads fast and reads well on a phone.
Our Services
Hand-coded from scratch. No template, no page builder.
A shoot day at your business. Nothing stock.
Hosting, edits, and someone to call when it breaks.
Web design for local business
Custom-built sites for restaurants, studios, clinics, and venues around the North Shore. We shoot the photos and video ourselves, write the copy, and hand you something that loads fast and reads well on a phone.
Hand-coded from scratch. No template, no page builder.
A shoot day at your business. Nothing stock.
Hosting, edits, and someone to call when it breaks.
This one looks like a template with somebody's name dropped into it. Same business, either way.
Before and after
Both versions are running live below — not screenshots. Drag the handle, flip between them, or shrink it to a phone.
This site — built in-house
The comparison above runs both versions of a client site live, side by side, from our own servers. The booking flows, the photography, the page you are reading: all of it is the same work we do for clients, which is why it is here rather than in a screenshot.
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We come to you, shoot the space, and edit it. No stock images of somebody else's business. North Shore and Vancouver area only — we shoot it ourselves, so we can't take it further out than that.
Written from scratch, so the site does what your business actually needs instead of what a page builder allows.
Most of your customers are on a mid-range phone on a bad connection. That's the case we build for.
Proper titles, structured data, and a Google Business profile that matches — so you show up when someone nearby searches.
Three packages, one number each — and every piece priced on its own below, so you can see exactly what the bundle is worth.
$4,199
one time
The website, done properly — for a business that already has its photography and just needs the site.
No care plan included — add one from below whenever you like, or run it yourself.
$6,599
one time
The build plus the content. We shoot the photos and video ourselves, wire in the booking system you already use, and stay on for the first three months.
$9,299
one time
Everything in Signature at full scale — and if you don't have a booking system, we build you one.
What the bundled pieces cost when they aren't part of a package — the same numbers we used to price the packages.
$550 / half day
$950 / full day
The shoot covers the North Shore and the Vancouver area only. We shoot everything ourselves, so anywhere further out isn't something we can take on — those projects are build-only, and we'll help you get usable photography sorted another way.
quoted
Booking systems, payment flows, member areas, software nobody's heard of — the out-of-the-ordinary requests. Each one is scoped on a call and quoted as a single fixed number before any work starts.
Month to month, no contract, switch tiers or stop whenever you like. Signature includes three months of any tier; Full Coverage includes six.
$95 / month
The site stays up, current, and yours to not think about.
$165 / month
The plan for being found, not just being up.
$245 / month
The site works your front desk while you work.
Hosting and deployment are handled on our end — there's nothing for you to set up, no control panel to log into, and no separate hosting bill to manage.
Already own your domain? It transfers across at no cost and stays yours. Don't have one, or want a new one? We'll register it at cost plus a small fee — in your name, not ours.
You own it, we just run it. The domain is in your name, and the code and every photo and video we shoot are assigned to you on final payment — you get the repository. Hosting sits on our side purely so there's nothing for you to administer. Walk away whenever you like and we hand it all over and help you move it. Nothing of yours is ever held hostage.
Based in North Vancouver, BC. No hourly billing and no surprises — the package price, or the quoted number for custom work, is the number you pay. You have it in writing before anything starts.
What happens next
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Twenty minutes on what your business does and where the current site loses people.
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We come by and shoot the space, the staff, and whatever makes you worth visiting.
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Two to four weeks. You see it on a real URL as it comes together, not at the end.
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Domain pointed, analytics on, and a walkthrough so you know how to update it.
If yours isn't here, email us and we'll answer it straight.
Three packages. Essentials is $4,199 — a custom site up to six pages with a contact form. Signature is $6,599 — up to eight pages, a photo and video shoot at your business, one booking system or connected service wired in, and three months of care plan included. Full Coverage is $9,299 — up to twelve pages, the shoot, a booking tool set up and built for you, up to three integrations, and six months of care plan. On their own, a shoot is $550 for a half day or $950 for a full day, and care plans run $95–245 a month. No hourly billing and no surprises: you get the exact number in writing before anything starts.
Three tiers, month to month, no contract. Care Essential at $95 a month covers hosting, SSL, backups, uptime monitoring, an hour of content edits, and someone to call when something breaks. Care Plus at $165 adds ongoing local search work — SEO and visibility in AI answers — a second hour of edits, and analytics with a monthly note on what moved. Full Care at $245 adds an AI assistant on your site, trained on your hours, prices, services and policies, handling up to 200 conversations a month, plus same-day response when something needs fixing. Switch tiers or stop whenever you like.
Signature includes wiring in one system you already use — booking, ordering, a connected service — styled to match the site rather than bolted on. Full Coverage covers up to three, plus a booking tool set up and built for your business. Anything genuinely out of the ordinary is scoped on a call and quoted as a single fixed number before any work starts, so you always know the cost up front.
No. Hosting and deployment are handled on our end — nothing for you to set up, no control panel, no separate hosting bill. If you already own your domain it transfers across at no cost and stays yours. If you don't have one, or want a different one, we'll register it for you at cost plus a small fee. Either way it's registered in your name, so you own it outright and can take it elsewhere whenever you like.
Yes — you own it, we just run it. The domain is registered in your name, not ours, so it's your asset from day one. The code and every photo and video we shoot is assigned to you on final payment, and you get the repository. Hosting is the one thing that sits on our infrastructure, purely so there's nothing for you to administer. If you ever want to leave, we hand over the code and help you point the domain wherever you like — there's no lock-in and nothing of yours is held hostage. The only thing you'd lose by leaving is us doing the work.
The site keeps existing — it's yours — but it stops being hosted by us, since that's what the plan pays for. We'd give you notice, hand over the repository, and either help you move it to your own hosting or point the domain at whatever you choose next. Nothing gets deleted and nothing gets switched off without warning.
For the build, location doesn't matter — that works wherever you are. The photo and video package is the exception: we shoot it ourselves, so it's limited to the North Shore and the Vancouver area. Further out than that we'll do the site build and help you get decent photography sorted another way.
About three weeks from the first call to launch. A week of that is waiting on you for content and a decision or two, so it moves as fast as you do.
Yes. The code, the photos, the video, the domain — all yours, and you can take it elsewhere whenever you want. The care plan is a convenience, not a hostage situation.
That's usually the case. We archive the old one so you can see them side by side, then point your existing domain at the new build when you're happy. Nothing goes dark in between.
You can, and for some businesses that's genuinely the right answer. What you give up is speed, the ability to do anything the template didn't anticipate, and a site that doesn't look like the three other businesses on your street.
Every one. We come to you for a few hours and shoot the space, the staff, and whatever makes it worth visiting. Stock photography is the fastest way to look like you're hiding something.
Start here
What you do, what your site does now, and what you wish it did. We'll come back with what we'd change and what it would cost.
A quote, not a range
One number for the build, itemised, before anything starts.
A look at your current site
What's costing you enquiries, specifically, with the pages named.
No obligation
If it isn't worth doing we'll say so. We'd rather not build the wrong thing.
Or just email us — info@lumework.ca