Landing Pages
High-converting pages that load in under a second, look sharp on every phone, and are ready for A/B tests, ads, and SEO from day one.
from $1,500 CAD
Available for new projects · Canada & USA
Custom Web Development
That Drives Business Growth
Full-cycle web development studio building high-performing landing pages, corporate websites, scalable e-commerce stores, backend APIs, AI chatbots, and third-party API integrations — using Laravel, Vue, and a modern stack to help your business launch and scale quickly
- Lighthouse 90+ guaranteed
- Mobile-first by default
- OWASP Top 10 baseline
- Same-day response
- Senior engineers only
What we do
Custom Web Development Services
Custom Web Development Services
for Your Business
From a one-page launch site to a full e-commerce platform — we design, build, and support websites that load fast, rank well, and turn visitors into customers. Fixed quotes in CAD, no hourly surprises, no offshore handoff.
Corporate Websites
Credible, multi-page sites with easy content editing, English + French support, and a design system that grows with your company.
from $4,000 CADE-Commerce Development
Custom online stores with secure Canadian payment gateways, real-time inventory, and the speed to keep cart abandonment low even on Black Friday traffic.
from $8,000 CADWeb APIs & Integrations
Connect your website to CRMs, payments, accounting, and mobile apps. Secure, documented, and built to handle millions of requests without breaking.
from $3,000 CADAI Chatbots & Automation
Smart assistants trained on your own content — answer customer questions, capture leads, and qualify sales 24/7 while your team sleeps.
from $2,500 CADReal-time Web Apps
Live dashboards, booking systems, collaboration tools, and notification platforms — everything updates instantly, no refresh button required.
from $10,000 CADBlogs & Content Platforms
Publishing tools your editorial team will actually enjoy — clean writing experience, built-in SEO, fast pages Google loves to rank.
from $3,000 CADSEO & Managed Hosting
Technical SEO audits, on-page optimisation, and managed Canadian hosting — so your site stays fast, secure, and visible in Google search.
from $400 CAD / mo
How we work
From Idea to Launch
From Idea to Launch
in Five Steps
A transparent, milestone-driven process so you always know what's happening, what's next, and when.
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01
Discovery
Kickoff call, requirements analysis, and a written brief. You walk away with a fixed scope and estimate.
~ 1 week -
02
Design & Architecture
Wireframes, system architecture, tech-stack decisions — reviewed and signed off before any code is written.
1 – 2 weeks -
03
Build
Iterative development with weekly demos. Staging environment from day one — progress is visible in real time.
2 – 12 weeks -
04
Launch
Cross-browser QA, deployment, DNS, monitoring, analytics — a polished, production-ready handover.
3 – 5 days -
05
Warranty & Growth
30-day post-launch warranty included by default — bugs we ship, we fix. Beyond that, optional monthly retainers cover security patches, monitoring, and iteration driven by real user data.
30 days + ongoing
Why us
Built Different,
Built Different,
By Design
Four reasons Canadian founders pick Emicode over freelancers, generic agencies, or offshore shops.
Senior engineers only
No juniors hidden behind a project manager. Every line is written by engineers with 7+ years on the stack.
Fixed, transparent pricing
No hourly surprises. We quote a fixed price after discovery and stick to it — scope changes are estimated upfront.
Future-proof stack
Built on the same foundations as Wikipedia, Etsy, and MailChimp — chosen so your site still runs, ranks, and scales five years from launch.
End-to-end ownership
Design, code, hosting, security, SEO — one accountable team. No five vendors to coordinate, no held-hostage assets.
How We Compare
The Honest
The Honest
Tradeoffs
We built Emicode the way we'd want to be hired. A small team of professionals with broad, hands-on experience across industries, working remotely so the price stays honest — focused on one thing: outcomes that genuinely move your business.
Emicode
Fixed CAD pricing. Senior experts only. Canadian-based company.
- Fixed CAD quote — overruns are on us
- Small senior team, accountable end to end
- Design, code, SEO, and ops under one roof
- 30 days post-launch support included by default
- Code, hosting, accounts — yours from day one
Best whenThe result has to move your business — and the price has to make sense
Solo Freelancer
Cheapest hourly rate, single point of failure.
- Hourly — final cost unknown until the invoice
- One person, start to finish — no backup if slammed
- Strong in their niche, gaps elsewhere
- Direct, no middleman
- Post-launch support is case by case
- Code and accounts usually yours
Best whenThe job is small and well-defined
Offshore Agency
Lowest sticker price, hidden coordination tax.
- Lowest upfront — change orders add up later
- Salesperson up front, junior bench behind
- Broad on paper
- Time-zone lag, language gap
- After launch: new contract, new SOW
- Ownership often tangled
Best whenYou have time to manage it closely
Talk directly to the project manager
30 minutes to talk through what you need. You'll leave knowing exactly where things stand.
Tech stack
A Modern Stack,
A Modern Stack,
Built to Last
Every layer is chosen for a reason — speed, security, longevity, and total cost of ownership. You get the same engineering proven by Wikipedia, Etsy, and MailChimp, tuned for your project.
Backend
A rock-solid foundation that scales from your first hundred customers to your first million. Built on the same engine that runs Wikipedia and Etsy.
- Under the hood:
- PHP 8.5+
- Laravel 13+
- Horizon
- Sanctum
- Spatie
- Cashier (Stripe)
- Scout
Frontend
App-like interactivity without sacrificing search rankings. Pages feel instant, work great on every device, and Google rewards the speed with higher positions.
- Under the hood:
- Vue 3+
- Vite 7+
- SCSS
- Tailwind 4+
- Alpine.js 3+
- HTML5 API
- SVG
- PWA
Data & Storage
Your data is the business. We engineer storage and search so queries stay fast as you grow, and backups are verified — not just scheduled.
- Under the hood:
- MySQL 9.7+
- Redis 8+
- ElasticSearch 9+
- S3 / R2
Real-time & Notifications
Live updates that arrive the moment they happen — new orders, chat messages, dashboard changes — without users hitting refresh or burning mobile data.
- Under the hood:
- Reverb 1+
- WebSockets
- RabbitMQ 4+
- Kafka 4+
- SSE
Hosting & Security
Global CDN keeps your site fast for visitors anywhere. DDoS protection, daily verified backups, and automatic deploys mean fewer 3 a.m. surprises.
- Under the hood:
- Cloudflare
- Nginx
- Forge
- GitHub Actions
- Ubuntu LTS
AI & Integrations
Real AI features baked into the product — not a chat bubble bolted on. Connected to the payments, SMS, mapping, and CRM tools your business already uses.
- Under the hood:
- Anthropic
- OpenAI
- Twilio
- Maps
Portfolio
Selected Work
Corporate
Aimex Foods
A custom-designed B2B site for a food importer and distributor, with an owner's admin panel to manage contact requests, automated lead routing between sales reps, and a blog CMS.
E-Commerce
BUYMYARTS
A two-sided wall-art marketplace with buyer and seller accounts, a custom admin CMS, and Stripe, S3, and Google integrations — built to scale from launch.
Client feedback
What Canadian Founders
What Canadian Founders
Say After Launch
Real words from the people who paid the invoices — verified reviews from our Google Business profile.
Had a great experience working with this team. Our website had several bugs that were affecting checkout, and they tracked down every one quickly. They've also been handling our ongoing maintenance, and the site has been working smoothly since. Responsive, clear communication, would recommend.
Reviews from Google
Team
Meet the Senior Engineers
Meet the Senior Engineers
Behind Your Project
You talk to the people who actually do the work. No account managers, no junior pools, no telephone game between sales and engineering.
We started Emicode after a decade of watching small businesses get burned by offshore agencies that overpromise, freelancers who disappear mid-project, and "full-service" shops that quietly subcontract everything. We work the opposite way: fewer hands, full ownership, written guarantees — and our names go on every line of code we ship.
- 8+ years managing web projects
- 40+ deliveries across Canada and EU
Your direct line from kickoff to launch. I live in your time zone, so when a decision is needed, you don't wait until tomorrow. Brief in plain language — I translate it into a written scope, fixed quote, and weekly demo cadence.
What I work on day-to-day
- Running kickoff calls and writing the technical brief
- Owning scope, timeline, and budget — and flagging risks early
- Reviewing every milestone before it reaches you
- Weekly status updates and demo recordings
- 10+ years on Laravel and PHP
- 60+ production projects shipped
The single engineer behind every line of code. I own architecture, build, deployment, and DevOps end-to-end. No handoffs, no lost context, no blame between layers — when something works (or breaks), there's one name on it.
What I work on day-to-day
- Designing system architecture and the data model
- Writing Laravel backend, Vue frontend, and integrations
- Provisioning servers, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring
- Performance, security audits, and post-launch fixes
AI agent that never sleeps — monitoring your website around the clock
Every project we ship gets watched by an automated AI agent — uptime, errors, performance, every deploy. Think of it as an employee who never sleeps. It catches problems before your customers do, and the fix is often underway before you've seen the notification.
Get in touch
Start a Project
Tell us about your project and we'll get back to you the same day with a free consultation and a rough estimate. No commitment required.
Your information is private. We never share your data with third parties.
FAQ
Common Questions
Timelines depend on scope. End-to-end (kickoff through launch), a landing page typically takes 3–5 weeks; a corporate website 6–10 weeks; a custom e-commerce or API platform 3–5 months. That includes discovery, design sign-off, build, QA, and deployment — we provide a detailed schedule after the initial consultation.
Absolutely. While our primary market is Canada, we work with clients across the USA and internationally. All our processes are fully remote-friendly — we use async communication, shared project boards, and regular video check-ins to keep everyone aligned regardless of timezone.
Our core stack is PHP 8.5 with Laravel on the backend, Vue 3 on the frontend, MySQL 9.7 LTS, Redis, and REST/WebSocket APIs. We run projects on Linux VPS environments and integrate with AI APIs, payment gateways, and third-party services as needed.
No — that reputation is locked to the WordPress era and stopped being accurate around 2015. Modern PHP (8.5+) ships strict types, JIT compilation, readonly classes, enums, property hooks, and asymmetric visibility, with a static-analysis ecosystem (PhpStan, Psalm) competitive with TypeScript strict mode. Wikipedia, MediaWiki, Etsy, MailChimp, WordPress.com, and Tumblr run it at scale today. We picked PHP because for the kind of full-stack web apps we build, it's faster to ship, faster to run, and cheaper to host than the trend-of-the-month alternatives.
Yes. Every project includes a 30-day post-launch support period at no charge. Beyond that, we offer monthly retainer packages covering bug fixes, security patches, performance monitoring, and feature additions. Many of our clients stay with us for ongoing development and hosting management.
Yes. We regularly perform code audits, refactoring, and feature additions on projects we didn't start. We'll audit your codebase first, identify any risks, and give you an honest assessment before committing. If it's a Laravel or Vue 3 project, we'll feel right at home.
We do. We can provision and manage Linux VPS environments (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS), set up Nginx, configure SSL, create CI/CD pipelines, and monitor your server 24/7. We can host your project for you, or work with your existing infrastructure.
Yes. We'd rather build a long-term relationship than win a single invoice, so in most cases there's room to talk — especially if the scope is flexible, the timeline works for both sides, or it's the start of ongoing work. The best way to find out where your project lands is a quick discovery call.
Custom, hand-coded — no page builders or off-the-shelf templates. That's what makes your website fast and unique. You also own the code at the end. And when it's done, you own the code outright. That last part matters more than it sounds. A lot of 'websites' are really rentals: built on a platform you pay for monthly, and the day you stop paying — or the company folds, or you just want to leave — the site goes with them. You were renting the whole time and didn't know it.
Design comes before code. We start with a wireframe to agree on structure, then move to full visual design. You review and sign off on the design before a single line of code is written — so there are no expensive surprises once the build starts.