Web development in Canada
Your website should bring you customers. Not compliments.
Bench Digital builds fast, mobile first websites for small businesses with one job: turning visitors into people who call, book and buy.
Start getting more leadsThe problem
Most small business websites leak customers every single day.
People find you, wait four seconds for the page to load, cannot find your phone number, and go to your competitor instead. You never even know it happened. Bench Digital exists to plug that leak.
Slow pages send people away
Most visitors abandon a site that takes more than a few seconds to load. Every second of delay is a customer walking out the door before you ever said hello.
No clear next step
If a visitor has to hunt for how to contact you, most will not bother. Every page we build points to one obvious action: call, book or send a message.
Broken on phones
The majority of your customers find you on a phone. A site designed for desktop first is a site that frustrates the majority of your buyers.
How it works
Plugging the leak takes four steps.
Free lead leak review
A 30 minute call about where your customers come from and where they drop off.
Design around one action
Every page points visitors toward the call, booking or quote that grows your business.
Build, speed test, launch
Mobile first, tuned against Google PageSpeed, live on your domain within weeks.
Keep improving
On the monthly plan, unlimited revisions keep your site converting as you grow.
Pricing
Three deals. Zero surprises.
Both get you a 5 page website built to generate leads. Pick the one that fits how you like to pay.
The Retainer
$200 covers a standard 5 page build. Larger sites, online booking or extra features are quoted upfront before you commit. Minimum 6 month term, then month to month.
- 5 page website built to convert visitors into leads
- Top speed with Google PageSpeed optimization
- Unlimited revisions, included, forever
- 24/7 direct access to Mathew for questions and updates
- Leave after 6 months: you keep your domain, we keep the design
The Lump Sum
Own it outright from day one.
- The same 5 page lead generating website
- Top speed and mobile first design
- Full ownership, design and all, from day one
- No monthly commitment and no on call support
- Future revisions billed at $150/hour, one hour minimum
The Custom Build
The sky is the limit. The quote comes first.
- Ecommerce, booking, web apps, whatever you can dream up
- Scoped and priced in writing before you commit
- Same Bench standard: fast, mobile first, built to convert
We are brand new. Here is why that works in your favour.
Bench Digital is young and honest about it. You will not find a wall of logos or a hundred five star reviews here, because we are still early. We could pad it out. Plenty do. We would rather earn it, one real client at a time.
What that means for you: founding clients get more attention, more hustle and better pricing than they would get anywhere else, because your result is the reputation we are building on. Our first client is proof of exactly that, and there is room for you next.
Become a founding client
Captured by Friends
Every studio has a first. Ours is Captured by Friends, Canada’s camcorder rental and wedding video editing brand. They ship a camcorder to your door, your people film the wedding weekend, and their team edits it into a film you keep forever.
We built and shipped their site, and we are proud they trusted a young studio to get it right. Go see the real thing.
About the founder
Hi, I am Mathew.
I started Bench Digital for one reason: too many small businesses in Canada are paying for websites that look fine and do nothing. Pretty brochures that never ring the phone.
Before Bench, I founded my own eCommerce brand and spent years in retail, tech support and web projects. I have been on your side of the counter. I know what it feels like to need customers this month, not someday.
So every site I build starts with the same question: where are you losing customers right now? Then I build the site that fixes it. Fast, mobile first, and pointed straight at your phone ringing more often.
Mathew Steenwinkel Founder, Bench Digital · Canmore, Alberta
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