Black Squid

Web development for trades and small businesses

Websites for trades, small businesses and professional firms

Modern, fast websites that update themselves. Live in about a week, one flat monthly price, no contracts. Your site keeps working after we ship it: it updates itself and gets new SEO content every month, automatically.

Like what you see? We build yours, you approve it before it goes live. The checkup tells you what's wrong with the site you have.

How it works

See a working demo first. Then we build yours.

No mockups, no wireframes to imagine your way through. Every trade has a complete, working demo you can click through on your own phone. Like it, we agree a price, build your site on your real business details, and you approve it before it goes live.

01

See the demo

Pick your trade in the portfolio. It is a complete, working site with real pages, a gallery, a chat assistant and a back office, not a picture of one.

02

We build yours

Once the price is agreed, a short kickoff call, then your site: your services, your town, your photos and branding, on a working link in about a week.

03

You approve, it goes live

You click through it exactly as a customer would, on your own phone and laptop. When you say so, we point your domain at it.

Why business owners pick us

Built to remove the usual web-agency headaches.

Flat, transparent price

One monthly number. No surprise invoices, no hourly clock, no change-order fees for routine updates.

Real human support

You email or call one person — the one who actually built your site — not a ticket queue.

No lock-in

Leave whenever you want. You keep a full copy of your site and every byte of your data.

It works while you work

Self-updating pages and a steady drip of local SEO articles keep your site moving without you touching it.

Under the hood

Built on the same infrastructure the biggest sites on the internet run on.

  • Deployed on the Cloudflare global edge network
  • Sub-second page loads from 300+ locations
  • Modern server-rendered stack, not a page builder
  • Automatic backups of your site and your data

Pricing

Three plans. One flat price each. Cancel anytime.

Start ($50/mo) puts a fast, modern site on Google and sends new leads straight to your inbox. Core ($150/mo) adds a full CRM, an AI chat assistant, and online quotes & invoices.Grow ($250/mo) chases your quotes and invoices for you, and layers on an AI quote builder, DocuSeal document signing, and a monthly SEO article — all for a fraction of what agencies charge. Prefer to own your site outright? A one-time build starts at $4,000, then just $25/mo for hosting and maintenance.

Community

We build websites for local teams, free.

Our first was the Carleton Place Water Dragons swim club, a volunteer-run, not-for-profit club. Their new site went live at cpwd.ca in October 2026.

We built and host the Carleton Place Water Dragons' website. cpwd.ca

Running a volunteer club or team? Talk to us

Ready to see what yours could look like?

Pick your trade in the portfolio and click through a working demo. Like what you see? We build yours once the price is agreed, and you approve it before it goes live.

See a demo for your tradeTalk to us