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yourbusiness.caOnlineReportChangesBackupsSettings

Website report · September

Sep 1 – Sep 30, 2026 · sent to you on Oct 1

September 2026

Uptime99.98%8 minutes down, Sep 14

Mobile page speed96Up from 91 in August

SSL certificate61 daysRenews automatically

Backups30 of 30Last one 2:00 am today

VisitsDaily, September

2,174+18% on August

Sep 1Sep 8Sep 15Sep 22Sep 30

Changes this month5

Holiday hours added to the contact pageSep 3Content
New staff photo on AboutSep 12Content
Booking form now sends a text confirmationSep 20Feature
Security updates applied — 4Sep 24Maintenance
Broken link to the old menu PDF fixedSep 27Fix

Device health

Device healthEvery machine checks in every few minutes. Patches install overnight.

Synced 2 min ago

23Devices managed

20Up to date

1Restart pending

2Need attention

All devices23Needs attention2Windows17Mac4Mobile2

DeviceOperating systemLast check-inPatchesEncrypted

Front deskfrontdesk-01Windows 11 24H22 min agoUp to date

Office manager laptopom-laptopWindows 11 24H24 min agoUp to date

Bookkeepingbooks-01macOS 15.66 min agoUp to date

Reception PCreception-02Windows 11 24H29 min agoRestart pending

Shop laptop 2shop-laptop-2Windows 11 23H21 hr ago41 days behind

Yard tabletyard-ipadiPadOS 18.612 min agoUp to date

Boardroomboardroom-pcWindows 11 24H218 min agoUp to date

Spare laptopspare-03Windows 11 24H23 days agoOffline 3 days

Showing 8 of 23Next patch window tonight, 1:00 am

9:39

VESupportFront desk printerResolved

Reception · 9:31 am

Front desk printer says offline again. Nobody touched it.

Valley Edge · 9:38 am

It picked up a new address after the power blip. Fixed it remotely and pinned it so it stays put. Try printing now.

Reception · 9:39 am

Printing. Thank you!

Fixed scope, in writing
Domain and hosting in your name
Support the same business day
No build fee

Pick your problem. We build it and run it.

AI and automation

The inbox, the spreadsheet, the same copy-paste every Monday.

Automated, with a person checking what matters.

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Inbox — office@yourbusiness.ca

Compose

Inbox7

Quotes3

Invoices2

Bookings

Needs you1

Overnight runFinished 6:41 amReplies drafted2Filed to a job2Calendar changes2

Inbox7 since you left

Homeowner, Cherry Creek11:04 pm

Quote for a back deck, about 12 × 16

Quote request · reply drafted

Accounting software11:31 pm

New bill from Supplier — $1,842.60

Invoice · filed to job 2214

Customer, Beaver Creek12:15 am

Could someone come Thursday morning?

Booking · added to calendar

Supplier1:02 am

Order 5531 — cedar delayed to Friday

Delay · job 2214 moved

Customer, Sproat Lake5:48 am

Any chance of 15% off if we pay up front?

Discount request · held for you

Homeowner, Port Alberni6:10 am

Gutters on a two-storey house

Quote request · reply drafted

Accounting software6:40 am

Invoice 2209 has been paid

Payment · matched to job 2209

Quotes

Quote for a back deck, about 12 × 16

Homeowner, Cherry Creekto office@yourbusiness.ca

Tue 11:04 pm

Hi there — we’re looking to replace the old deck off the back of the house. Roughly 12 by 16 feet, about three feet off the ground, cedar if possible. Photos attached. Would you be able to give us a rough price and come out to measure?

yard-1.jpgyard-2.jpg

Draft — waiting for your OKDrafted 11:04 pm

Thanks for the photos. A cedar deck that size and height usually comes in between $9,800 and $11,400, depending on the stairs and railing.

I can come by to measure Thursday at 8 am or Friday at 2 pm — which suits you better?

SendEditPrice from your 2026 rate sheet

Websites

The site that still says 2019 in the footer.

Rebuilt and kept running. $350/month.

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Search resultsyourbusiness.caSearch type: WebDate: Last 3 months

Total clicks1,128

Total impressions38.8K

Average CTR2.9%

Average position9.4

ClicksClicksImpressionsImpressions

QueriesPagesCountriesDevicesDates

Searches you were found for	Clicks	Impressions	Position
furnace repair near me	214	5,120	3.2
furnace repair port alberni	167	1,240	1.4
heating contractor	96	4,870	7.8
heat pump installation port alberni	81	960	2.1
furnace not turning on	58	3,410	11.6
emergency furnace repair	44	1,690	5.3

Business ProfileSeptember · Maps and Search

Calls38+9

Direction requests71+14

Website clicks54+11

Apps and MVPs

The idea that has lived in a doc for a year.

Shipped as a first version you can click.

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10:52

Tuesday, October 6

Today1 of 4 done

8:00 amDone

Furnace service412 Johnston Rd

10:30 amOn site

Hot water tank swapCherry Creek Rd

1:15 pmNext

Heat pump estimateBeaver Creek Rd

3:30 pmLater

Thermostat replacementSproat Lake Rd

TodayMapPartsMe

Job 2214 · 10:30 amHot water tank swap

On site · 22 min

CustomerHomeownerCherry Creek Rd

Notes from the office

Side gate, the dog is friendly. Tank is in the crawlspace — bring the short dolly.

Parts on the truck50 gal gas tank×1Expansion tank×1¾" flex connectors×2

Checklist3 of 5

Gas and water shut offOld tank drained and removedNew 50 gal tank set and connectedLeak and venting checkShow homeowner the shut-off valve

Add photos3

Customer signature

Close job

Same work. None of the layers.

Bigger firms carry account teams, sales staff and approval chains, and you pay for every layer. We run without them, so your money goes into the work.

The usual way

How we work

An account manager between you and the work

You talk to the people building it

A discovery workshop before anything moves

A written quote after one call

A slide deck of what it might look like

A working link early, so you react to the real thing

A ticket number when something breaks

An answer from someone who already knows your setup

Overhead built into the price

You pay for the work

We measure everything. These are this page's own numbers.

Weight, requests, paint time and contrast, read off a real browser on the last build.

page weight, uncompressed261.4 KB

requests5

third-party requests0

first contentful paint104 ms

automated checks21

design tokens157

pages38

raster images4

chromium · 1440×900 · cold cache · unthrottled loopback · median of 5 loads · measured 2026-10-05 UTC · this page only, not any other site

Fast, and nothing breaks. Every change runs the checks.

Layout at five widths, measured contrast, two browser engines. Fail one and the change doesn't go out, however small it is.

21checks

Before a change goes live.

The same run for a one-word edit and a new page.

Build6sChecks2m 32sPreview6sExample durations · Oct 4

Every page is legalgate:schema every page manifest is legal against the contract0.07s
Design tokens onlygate:tokens no Tailwind escape hatches — every value comes from @theme0.03s
No thin or duplicate pagesgate:thin no page is another page with the nouns changed0.04s
Sitemap matches the pagesgate:sitemap the sitemap and the pages agree about what is indexable0.01s
Accessibilitygate:a11y the deterministic accessibility checks, with no second dependency0.02s
Titles, canonicals, one H1gate:meta no two pages compete for one query; every page states what it is0.01s
Analytics and outside hostsgate:analytics each tag on every page or no page; every off-site host authorised11.6s
Layout at five widthsgate:layout no overflow, no clipped section, no heading hidden under the header14.6s
Text contrastgate:contrast every painted text run clears its floor against the ground it sits on2.6s
Safari (WebKit) rendergate:webkit every text run paints something in WebKit, and no request 4xx/5xx1m 59s
+11 more checks

Five widths1440 down to 360. Every width measured.
Two enginesChrome and Safari, because your customers use both.
Every editA one-word fix runs the same checks as a launch.

Launch day is the start.

We run what we build. Updates, fixes and a straight answer whenever you ask.

No handovers

You talk to the people who built it. No account manager in the middle and no ticket queue.

Replies within one business day
Anything broken gets fixed free and never counts as a change
Your domain and your site stay in your name

Nothing to build?

We also look after the computers, printers, networks and software you already run, on a managed agreement of their own.

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When it breaks, someone reads the code. Not a support script.

A real fix from this site. One wrong identifier was rejecting every contact form message and blaming the visitor for a box they had already ticked.

api/contact.js+2 −1


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      const token = String(body.turnstileToken ?? '');

    
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      +
      // the widget posts this NAME, not the one we were reading

    
      104
      +
      const token = String(body['cf-turnstile-response'] ?? '');

    
      105
       
      if (!token) {

    
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        return json(400, { error: 'Please complete…' });

    
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      }

Found by readingFive automated checks passed it. Reading the request caught it.
Written downThe reason sits above the line, so nobody undoes it later.
Yours to keepThe repository is in your name. Any developer can pick it up.

The people who quote it build it. Then they keep it running.

Custom-built means engineered. Not dragged together in a page builder.

Every size, colour and space has a name, and a one-off value fails the build. That's why page forty still matches page one.

AaInter

Agtext · 18.61:1

Agtext-2 · 13.55:1

Agtext-muted · 6.50:1

Agtext-faint-on-bg · 5.13:1

accent-3 · 9.66:1

accent-2 · 5.30:1

accent · 3.23:1

Edge400

Edge510

Edge590

xs · 6px

sm · 8px

md · 12px

lg · 16px

xl · 24px

8px

16px

24px

32px

48px

Tell us what's stuck.

A stale site, a system nobody owns, the task that eats your Monday. You'll hear what fixing it takes and what it costs.

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