Black Squid

Web development for trades and small businesses

Websites for trades, small businesses and professional firms

Modern, fast websites that update themselves. 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.

Live in 7 days. 30-day money-back guarantee.

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 your website before you pay a cent

Tell us about your business. We build your site. You decide.

  1. Step 1

    Enter your email

    We send you a secure link. No password, no credit card.

  2. Step 2

    Tell us about your business

    Services, how far you travel, a few photos. About 5 minutes.

  3. Step 3

    Get your demo

    Your site lands in your inbox within a few hours.

  4. Step 4

    Love it? Make it live

    Only then do you subscribe. Hosting, updates and support included, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Get my free demo

One demo per business. Demos stay up for 30 days.

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 contracts

Cancel any time, no fee, and your data exports free. After 48 months you can take a static copy of your site with you, or sooner with a buyout of the months left.

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 ($199 setup, then $50/mo) puts a fast, modern site on Google and sends new leads straight to your inbox. Core ($199 setup, then $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 $2,400, 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