Blackline Studio · Vancouver
Blackline
Websites and internal software for businesses whose current one is quietly costing them work.
What we do
Three things,
done thoroughly
001
Digital presence audits
Before anything is designed, we measure what a search engine actually sees: title tags, structure, speed, schema, and every place your name appears wrong. Evidence and real URLs, not adjectives. Fixed fee. If the audit finds you do not need us, it says so.
002
Websites
Static, fast, and structured so search engines can read them. No page builder, no theme to fight, nothing that decays into a monthly hostage fee. Every old address redirected on launch day, so the visibility you already have survives the move.
003
Internal software
The scheduling, billing and reporting a business actually runs on. Built once, owned outright, and shaped around how the work is really done rather than how software vendors imagine it.
Method
Eight stages.
Each one has a gate.
Every stage takes a defined input, produces one document, and stops at a gate. Nothing moves forward until the gate is cleared, which is why projects here do not quietly drift for a month.
01
Scout
What you have, what your competitors have, where the gap is.
02
Audit
Measured findings with evidence. Fixed fee, no obligation.
03
Intake
The questions that decide the build, asked once, properly.
04
Brief
One page: sitemap, keyword map, scope, and a single approver.
05
Design
Two directions. You pick one. Then the full page set.
06
Build
The site, the content migration, and a redirect for every old address.
07
Launch
Cutover, resubmission, and fourteen days of monitoring.
08
Retainer
Monthly updates and a plain report on what moved.
No gate, no work.
Start here
Begin with the audit
Every engagement starts the same way, with a fixed-fee audit of what you already have. You get the findings whether or not you go further, and if they say your money is better spent elsewhere, they say so plainly.
sloane@blacklinestudio.io