About Black Squid
One builder. One platform. No agency in between.
Black Squid is operated by Velesco Inc., a registered Ontario company, doing business as Black Squid. We build and maintain websites for Canadian small businesses using a self-updating platform we built and run ourselves.
Why this beats a traditional agency
Agencies scale by adding people. We scale by adding automation.
A typical web agency grows by hiring more account managers and more developers, then pricing accordingly. Black Squid grows by improving the platform every client's site runs on — which means the price stays flat and the person you talk to never changes.
No handoffs
A traditional agency passes you between a salesperson, an account manager, a designer, and a developer. Here, the person who quotes your project is the person who builds it and the person who answers your support email.
No retainer bloat
Agencies price in the overhead of that whole chain of people. A flat monthly platform fee replaces it — you are not subsidizing a project-management layer you never asked for.
Direct access
Questions get answered by the builder, not relayed through a client-services inbox. Changes get made by the person who understands exactly how your site is built.
A platform, not just a person
The automation behind Black Squid — self-updating pages, monthly SEO content, backups — means your site keeps improving even when nobody is actively working on it that week.
Talk to us directly
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Velesco Inc., operating as Black Squid
Ontario, Canada
