I design and build fast, custom websites and the booking and quoting tools behind them — no theme, no page builder. Once yours is paid for, it's yours to keep. While I host it, I check it every minute, and if something I built stops working, I fix it at no charge.
Free. No obligation. About 2 minutes.
Someone already interested in your business — a referral, a Google listing — hits a dead end with nowhere to click through to. A great reputation only carries so far without a place to land.
If your website only works while you keep paying a page builder, you're renting access to that platform. That can limit what you can change or take with you. I build a custom replacement around your business, with a permanent licence to keep using it once paid for—even if you change hosts.
Most projects start as a website. As your business grows, the same foundation can grow into the systems that run more of it — quoting, booking, and the small tools that save you real time.
Custom marketing websites, designed and built around your business from a blank page — not a theme.
Booking, quoting, forms, and the third-party tools your business already runs on, connected into your site.
Reducing the manual, repetitive admin work — lead routing, notifications, and workflows that used to take your time.
Secure content dashboards built around your business, with safeguards that help you update your site without breaking its layout. Calculators and client workflows can be added as needed.
Once it is paid for, your domain, content, data and branding are yours, and the site comes with a permanent, royalty-free licence — no ongoing fee for the right to use it.
I check every site I host every minute, and every certificate and domain renewal daily. If yours goes down, I know within minutes — not when a customer tells you.
No purchased theme, no fragile plugins. If something I built stops working as agreed, I fix it at no charge for as long as I host your site.
No account manager and no handoff. The person who answers your email is the person who builds the site.
I reply the same day, on days I am working.
Based in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island. The work travels — the Island, BC, and outside it.
Not mockups — live sites built for real businesses, each with the custom functionality that business actually needed.
A custom site for an 18+ FiveM roleplay community — built around the three things that actually persuade someone to apply: the rules in full, the charge index, and a courthouse that sits.
A brochure site for a veteran-owned, three-generation family firewood business — built around the kiln-drying process that sets their wood apart, and real local trust.
A custom site for a Nanaimo car audio and 12V install shop — built around posted pricing, real install photography, and inquiries that arrive ready to quote.
A custom web application for a regional childcare center — built around program discovery, fee transparency, and enrollment.
A website move, not a redesign — a Port Alberni bookkeeping practice’s existing site, rebuilt page for page in code and taken off GoDaddy’s Website Builder with every link and inbox intact.
Unedited, and attributed to the person who said it — not a carousel of first names.
“We run a FiveM roleplay community and our website had been sitting untouched since 2023. I knew it needed work but I didn't know how much until Drew went through it — the Discord invite was dead so there was literally no way for anyone to join us, a link in the main menu was broken, and half the site was still default template content. He rebuilt the whole thing properly instead of patching it. What stood out was the stuff he flagged that I hadn't asked about: our domain was about to expire and the DNS wasn't set up where any of us thought it was. He told me immediately rather than letting it become a problem. He asks questions, gets the details right, and doesn't put things live until they've actually been checked, and his customer portal is super easy to manage invoices and payments. 10/10!”
“Acuity Web Labs did an excellent job redesigning our website. They made the entire process smooth and helped us get the new site launched much faster than we expected. The finished website looks great, performs better, and gives our business a much more professional online presence. We highly recommend their team!”
“I would highly recommend Acuity for your web development needs. We are a non-profit organization and Drew went above and beyond to provide us with a website that not only met but surpassed our needs. He was very knowledgeable and very reasonable about what we were paying for and offered a payment plan that fit the needs of our budget. If you want your website to run efficiently and get you on the map, Drew is your guy!”
Every Acuity site starts from a blank page and is built around how your customers find you and get in touch.
I don't use templates. I hand-build fast websites around your business and brand, designed to work beautifully on any phone.
I structure your pages so search engines can find, understand, and index your business, so people searching for what you do can find you too.
Looks right and loads quickly on a phone, tablet, or laptop — most of your visitors will be on their phone.
Every site includes a protected contact form, so inquiries land in your inbox with a name, an email and a message — something you can reply to, invoice from and keep. A social media DM is none of those things.
I check every site I host every minute, so if it goes down I hear about it, not just your customers. I handle the hosting and security setup for you. Managed Hosting is $30/month, billed separately on every plan and on an upfront build. It is not bundled into any plan price. Acuity Care comes with the Foundation, Growth and Business plans, and is optional otherwise.
One person, accountable for the whole project — you never have to coordinate with a separate hosting company or another freelancer. I manage the hosting and deployment for you.
From a simple professional presence to custom business software — choose what sounds closest to what you need.
A focused custom one-page site — a professional presence without unnecessary complexity.
A complete five-page small-business website — dedicated pages for services, about and contact, on the shared architecture every later page plugs into.
A website with customer-facing tools — estimators, calculators, booking, and smart lead forms.
A website plus custom admin tools — editable content, dashboards, and business workflows.
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See complete pricing, Subscription Plans, Managed Hosting, Acuity Care, and optional services.
Drew
Founder, Acuity Web Labs
I'm based in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island, and I work with businesses wherever they are — on the Island, across BC, and well outside it. Not outsourced, not a call center, not an account manager relaying your request to a developer three time zones away. I work directly with a limited number of businesses at a time, backed by real, hands-on web development experience. When your busy season spikes demand or something changes your capacity, you're talking to me — the person who actually built your site — not filing a ticket.
This is the coastline the work gets done on — not a stock photo library.
It depends on what you need, but pricing starts at $1,000 for a single page and scales up from there. If you'd rather not pay that upfront, Subscription Plans get you a professional website from $88/month instead — no large payment to start. Use the Get Started tool above for an instant, no-obligation estimate in about 2 minutes, or see the full breakdown on the Pricing page.
The same website you'd pay for upfront, spread across a fixed term instead. All four website types are available monthly: Starter at $88/month for 12 months, Foundation from $242/month for 24 months, Growth from $346/month for 36 months, Business from $584/month for 36 months. Because the terms differ, compare the total rather than the monthly figure — $1,056, $5,808, $12,456, $21,024 respectively, in Canadian dollars before tax. Managed Hosting is billed separately at $30/month, the same as on an upfront build, and Foundation, Growth, Business include full Acuity Care for the whole term — while I'm financing the website, I look after it. There's no upfront website-build payment. Once the term is paid in full the website is yours and the monthly plan payment stops — hosting continues at $30/month if you keep it with me, plus Managed Database Infrastructure from $45/month if your site needs it, and Acuity Care becomes optional from there.
Every site is built with search in mind — an SEO-ready foundation of clean, semantic code, proper page titles, and local schema markup so search engines can read your business correctly, with your site structured and ready to connect with your Google Business Profile. No one can guarantee rankings, and SEO is an ongoing process rather than a one-time switch, but the technical groundwork is built in from day one, not bolted on later.
Once paid in full, your domain, content, data, branding and design are yours. The website code and custom tools are licensed to your business, not sold: you get a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, host, maintain and change them. The licence is not tied to my hosting and can pass with a sale of your business. A separate company needs its own licence; you may not resell, sublicense, white-label or copy the software for another business. On a Subscription Plan, website payments stop when your initial term is paid. Hosting, monitoring, support and my code warranty last only while I host your site; they end if you leave. Moving hosts may break some tools until a developer reconnects them.
Yes — every site I host runs on Managed Hosting, a flat $30/month (hosting, SSL, DNS, uptime monitoring, and your domain connection). Acuity Care sits on top of that, and whether it is optional depends on how you're paying: optional if you bought the website upfront, priced by tier from $89 to $199/month (a one-page Starter site has no Care plan; its updates are billed as needed) — but included at no extra charge for the whole term on a Foundation, Growth, Business Subscription Plan, and optional again once that term is paid in full. Care covers small changes to what is already there at no extra charge; larger work is billed to members at the Care Member Rate of $95/hour, and without Care it is available anytime at $125/hour. The Pricing page has the full breakdown of every tier and rate.
Every website tier has two payment options: 50% to start and 50% at launch, or a monthly Subscription Plan from $88/month. I scope Growth and Business projects before quoting either option.
No coding or special software needed on your end. Business-tier clients can log into their own admin panel and edit content anytime. For everyone else, Acuity Care covers small changes to what is already there — text edits, swapping a photo, updating your hours or your prices — simply done, with no invoice and nothing to count. There is nothing to spend down and nothing that resets. On a Subscription Plan Care is included rather than optional, looking after five pages and your form on Foundation; your pages and your customer tool on Growth; your pages, admin area and data on Business. Starter includes no Acuity Care, so changes there are billed as needed. Without Care, the same updates are still available anytime at $125/hour, no subscription required. Nothing is unlimited: anything that adds a page, a new design, or new functionality is scoped and quoted before I start, so it stays fair for both of us.
Growth (starting at $7,000) adds customer-facing interactive functionality to your site — things like quote calculators, service selection tools, or booking integrations that generate leads for you. Business (starting at $13,000) adds tools for managing your own site — an admin panel to edit pages, services, and content without calling a developer. Both are scoped around your specific business, not a fixed feature list.
Yes. Acuity is based on the West Coast of British Columbia, but I can work remotely with businesses anywhere. Local clients benefit from having someone nearby, but the design, development, review, and launch process works just as well remotely.
It depends on scope, but your consultation call includes a realistic timeline for your specific project before any work begins.
