ShipwrightDigital

Based in Nova Scotia, working remotely across Canada and the US

Websites, cloud, and custom software, built to last.

Websites and business email, AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure, custom web applications, and the integrations that hold them together, for businesses across the Maritimes. Honest assessments, realistic timelines, and code that works.

  • Flat quotesin writing, before any work starts
  • Hundreds of siteskept online, fast, and patched
  • 100k+ visits a monthto our own live sites

Built, launched, still running

Client sites and our own live products. Everything here is in production today, most of it on infrastructure we host and manage.

All selected work
Island Auto Glass & Trim on a desktop browser
Island Auto Glass & Trim on a phone

Island Auto Glass & Trim

A 30-year glass shop: windshields, ADAS calibration, and insurance direct billing, with a quote pipeline built to ring the phone.

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What clients say on Google

5.0 on Google from 3 reviews

  • Amazing work, always goes the extra mile.

    The Birch Street Homestead
  • Amazing work! Friendly, hassle free service. Highly recommend

    Jeremy L.
  • 10/10 recommend! Great service.

    Courtney L.
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The work we take on

Everything here starts with a free phone call and ends with a flat written quote. That's true for a two-page website and it's true for a six-month build.

Websites, Email & Hosting

A site that loads fast, shows up on Google, and doesn't fall over.

  • Designed for phones first, because that's where your customers are
  • Business email on your own domain, set up so it lands in inboxes
  • Hosted on AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure that we keep patched and monitored
From $600 to build, plus care from $120 a month See websites, email & hosting

Custom Software & Integrations

For the jobs where off-the-shelf software runs out.

  • Custom web applications, Twilio and API integrations, AI automations
  • Cloud architecture, cost optimization, and legacy migrations on AWS and Cloudflare
  • Emergency fixes and performance tuning when something's broken
Scoped and quoted per project See custom software & integrations

AI Automation Audit

Most owners suspect AI could save them time somewhere. This audit finds out where, and whether it's worth the money.

  • One conversation about how your business runs: quoting, intake, scheduling, bookkeeping
  • A short report ranking what's worth automating, what it costs, and what to skip. The plan is yours whether you build with us or with someone else
Flat fee, quoted up front See the AI automation audit

We measured Atlantic Canada’s small-business web

Every month our crawler checks 7,547 businesses across 24 communities, restaurants to roofers, and audits every website it finds. Where a competitor’s site is missing or broken, a fast, findable one wins the call.

Businesses tracked monthly
7,547
Have no website at all
30%
Existing sites failing mobile checks
12%
Share of businesses with no website, by industry
  1. Hair salons41%
  2. Electricians36%
  3. Auto repair shops36%
  4. Plumbers35%
  5. Roofing companies35%
  6. General contractors35%
  7. Accountants32%
  8. Dentists24%
  9. Landscapers21%
  10. Restaurants13%

Aggregates only, never individual businesses. Updated monthly.

What working with us looks like

  1. Tell us what's eating your week

    Fill in the short questionnaire on any service page, or just call. Bring whatever keeps not getting done, whether that's quoting, double bookings, or a website that hasn't changed since 2014.

  2. Get a flat quote

    Scope, price, and timeline in writing before any work starts. If we're not the right fit for the job, we'll say so and point you at who is.

  3. We build it. You run your business.

    We ship it, walk you through it, and keep it running under a care plan. Years later, you're still calling the same number, and it still gets answered.

A shipwright builds things meant to take weather

The work behind Shipwright Digital goes back fifteen years: health platforms, ERstat.ca, and the AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure behind hundreds of production websites. No account managers, no ticket queues, nothing outsourced.

The name is a standard we hold ourselves to. A shipwright's work has to survive years of weather with somebody's livelihood aboard, and websites and servers deserve the same seriousness. Ours are built to still be running a decade from now.

Based in Nova Scotia, working with businesses across Atlantic Canada and remote clients across Canada and the US.

Questions we get a lot

What does a website cost?

We quote a flat price in writing before any work starts, and that's what you pay. Small-business websites start at $600 to build, with hosting, business email, and care from $120 a month (plus HST). You'll know the exact number before you commit to anything.

Is AI useful for a small business, or is it hype?

Some of it is hype, and some of it is already saving small businesses real hours: drafting quotes, answering repeat questions, reading invoices into the books. Whether it would help your business is exactly what the audit answers, and if the answer is no, the report will say so.

Where are you based, and do you work remotely?

We're in Nova Scotia and work fully remotely: phone, email, and Google Meet cover everything this work needs. We take on clients across Atlantic Canada, and hosting, software, and integration clients anywhere in Canada or the US.

Who owns the website if I leave?

You do. The domain is registered in your name and the content is yours. If you ever want to move on, you get a complete copy of the site and we part on good terms.

Tell us what’s eating your week.

The call is free and takes 20 minutes. Worst case, you leave with a clearer picture of the problem.

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