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A Website Should Do More Than Look Good. It Should Bring You Work.

We design and build from scratch, on whatever platform suits you, for any industry. The look is the part everybody talks about. The part that shows up in your bank account is how many people get to the end and actually do something.

Based in London, Ontario · designed and built in house · you own everything we make

Websites we have built

The Cullen Carpentry website
Cullen CarpentryCarpentry & contracting
The Blanca Beauty website
Blanca BeautyBeauty & nails
The Thorne Designs website
Thorne DesignsRenovations
The London City PM website
London City PMProperty management
The Arc Creative website
Arc CreativeMedia studio
The Home Highlight website
Home HighlightHoliday lighting
The Erika Friesen website
Erika FriesenInterior design
The Wanita Johnston website
Wanita JohnstonRealtor
The Harasym Developments website
Harasym DevelopmentsHome builder
The Emma V website
Emma VTattoo artist
The Arnsby Property website
Arnsby PropertyProperty management
The Rinehart Realty website
Rinehart RealtyRealtor

What we build for

A site has three jobs. We build for all three.

Most sites are built for one of these and quietly fail the other two. A beautiful one that nobody finds, a fast one that looks like a template, or a pretty one that never asks for the work. The three are not a trade off, they are the brief.

It looks like your brand

Drawn for your business rather than a theme with your logo dropped into it, and shot with your own photography where it counts. The site is the first thing most people meet you through, and looking like everybody else in your trade is a decision you can only make once.

It makes you money

One clear thing to do on every screen, the proof and the prices where somebody actually looks for them, and forms that arrive. Getting a visitor costs you something either way. What happens in the two minutes after they land is the part you can improve for free.

It loads fast and gets found

Built light so it opens quickly on a phone on bad signal, with the titles, structure and technical groundwork search engines read. Speed is a ranking factor and a patience factor at once, which is how a quick site ends up above a competitor's slow one.

The maths

What would a slightly better site be worth to you?

Put your own numbers in. Most sites we take over convert somewhere between one and three percent, and nudging that is a much cheaper job than doubling the traffic feeding it.

If the site converted better by20%

Your rate goes from 2.50% to 3.00%.

That is worth, a year$0

$0 a month, from 0 more customers.

Now
$0 a month
After
$0 a month

Even at five percent, the smallest step on that slider, it is $0 a year.

These are your numbers, not ours, and this is arithmetic rather than a forecast. We put it here because the size of the number surprises people, and because it is the honest way to work out whether a rebuild is worth doing at all. If your traffic is too low for it to add up, we would rather tell you that and talk about where the traffic comes from first.

Platforms

We build on whatever suits the job.

Not whatever we are quickest on. If you are already on something and it is working, we will build on it rather than charge you to move. If it is holding you back, we will say that instead.

Webflow

Our usual pick for a marketing site. Fast, properly designed rather than assembled, and you can edit the words yourself.

Shopify

Where we put anything selling products. Custom theme work, not a bought theme with your logo dropped into it.

WordPress

Sensible when there is a lot of content, an existing blog worth keeping, or a team already trained on it.

Squarespace

Fine for a small site with a small budget. We will tell you honestly when it is the right call and when it is a ceiling.

Wix

If you are already there and it is working, we will work in it. Moving for the sake of moving costs you money and rankings.

Hand coded

For anything the platforms cannot do. Booking flows, calculators, portals, and the odd site that just has to be faster than everyone else's.

And wired into whatever you already run on
StripeSquareMailchimpHubSpotGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerMeta

How it runs

Five or six weeks, and you see it the whole way.

  1. 01Week one

    We work out the job

    What you sell, who buys it, what they need to know before they will, and the one action the site exists to get. Everything after this is in service of that answer.

  2. 02Week two

    Structure, then words

    Page by page, in order, before anything is designed. Cheap to change at this stage and expensive to change later, which is the whole reason it comes first.

  3. 03Weeks three and four

    Design, and then build

    Designed from scratch for you, not adapted from a template. You see it on a real link on a real phone, and you get your say before a line of it is built.

  4. 04Launch, then after

    Live, measured, tuned

    Redirects, tracking and Search Console handled so nothing is lost on the way over. Then we watch what people actually do on it and fix what gets in their way.

What is included

If we quote it, it is included.

Nothing that quietly turns into an extra once you have signed.

Designed from nothing

No template, no theme with your logo dropped in. Every page drawn for your business, which is also why none of it fights you a year later.

Structure and words

What goes on each page and in what order, written with you. This is the part that moves the conversion rate, and it is the part most builds skip.

Built for a phone first

Because that is where most of your traffic is. Tested on real handsets, not just narrowed down in a browser window.

The search groundwork

Titles, structure, speed, sitemap, redirects off the old pages. Not a monthly SEO retainer, just the things that would be daft to launch without.

Tracking wired in

Analytics, events and the ad pixels, set up and checked, so you can see where people drop off instead of guessing at it.

Forms that actually arrive

Every enquiry tested end to end and delivered to the inbox and phone you actually check, with the spam filtered out. A form nobody is reading is a website quietly losing you work.

Photography and film

Shot in house by Arc Creative if you need it. A beautifully built site loaded with stock photos still looks like everybody else's.

Taught to you at the end

A walkthrough recorded for your team so you can change the words, prices and photos yourself without ringing us.

Yours, entirely

The domain, the hosting and the site are in your name. If we ever go separate ways you keep all of it, working, with nothing to unpick.

Before you ask

The questions we get every time.

Will the site actually rank on Google?

Every site we build is put together so it can: pages that load quickly, headings that say what the page is, and a structure a search engine can read. Getting a specific search to the top of the page is a separate piece of work with its own time in it, and that is on the SEO page.

What does a site cost?

Most of the sites we build land between $4,000 and $12,000, and where a job sits in that is mostly down to how many pages there are and whether it is selling products. A small local service site is at the bottom of it, a proper shop with a few hundred products is at the top. We quote the whole thing up front, once, and that number does not move unless you ask for something that was not in it.

How long does it take?

Five or six weeks for most builds, from the first call to going live. The part that decides it is almost never us - it is how quickly we get the photos, the prices and the answers we need from you. If you are quick, so are we.

Do I have to write all the words?

No. We write it, then you correct us on the things only you would know. That is a far better order than asking a busy person to produce copy from a blank page, and it is included rather than being an add on.

Can I edit it myself afterwards?

Yes, and we would rather you could. Words, prices, photos and new pages are all yours to change, and we record a walkthrough of your actual site at handover so somebody on your team can do it without a support ticket.

Will I lose my Google rankings?

This is the right thing to worry about, and it is where most rebuilds quietly go wrong. Every old page gets pointed at its new equivalent, the structure and titles carry over, and we watch Search Console for a month afterwards. Done properly a rebuild usually helps, because speed and structure are both things Google is reading anyway.

My site looks fine. Is it worth redoing?

Maybe not. Looking dated and converting badly are two different problems, and the second one is the expensive one. Run your numbers through the calculator above - if the figure it gives you is smaller than what a rebuild costs, we will tell you to leave it and spend the money somewhere it does more.

Do you work with businesses like mine?

Almost certainly. We have built for trades, home services, real estate, retail, ecommerce, clinics and studios. The industry changes the words and the photographs. What somebody needs in order to feel confident enough to get in touch is much the same everywhere.

Do you do the ads as well?

We do, and it is usually the better way round. A site built to convert and campaigns pointed at it, done by the same people, means nothing gets lost between two suppliers blaming each other. It is not a condition of anything though - plenty of the sites we build are the only work we do for that business.

Client Reviews

And what they say about working with us.

5.0 on Google100+ clients helped

Great service from the start to finish. I would definitely recommend anyone to try them out. Super happy with their services for going beyond and above!

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Denny V.

Launch & Found made launching my business in London, Ontario so much easier! They built a clean website, set up lead capture systems, and gave us practical tools that are already helping us book more jobs and grow.

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Franxx

Great experience overall. Super easy to work with, very responsive, and they really know what they are doing when it comes to websites and online ads. The content they created for us was high quality and delivered on time.

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Jerowe R.

Working with Launch and Found has been a fantastic experience. Their team delivered a professional website, effective paid ad campaigns, and engaging content that helped elevate our brand.

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Cody M.

Launch and Found did an amazing job creating our website for Thorne Designs. The site looks professional, runs smoothly, and truly represents our brand.

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Ryan T.

Launch and Found shot some content for me and I was very happy with the results. They are professional and talented at what they do. High recommend.

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Minh D.

Excellent service and attention to details. We are so satisfied with the service they provide and highly recommend it!

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Cha B.

Very professional, and an absolute pleasure to do business with! Website was very well thought out and easy to navigate.

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Jeff

Launch and Found was great to work with. Professional, creative, and really helpful with marketing and web design. Highly recommend.

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Isaiah P.

Great website, organized and very detailed. I love the background.

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Mark T.

Worked with them on a project. Very talented with high quality service and products. Check out the website to see their impressive work.

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L V.

Solid service, no issues working with the folks here.

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Hamilton N.

Great working with the LnF team!

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Edmund T.
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Ready for a website that brings you work?

Send us the site you have, or tell us you have not got one. We will come back with what we would build, what it would cost and how long it would take.