They find you on Google.
One hundred people a month look for exactly what you sell, close to home.
Empire Inc — Whitby, Ontario
Every street has a dark shop.
Yours does not have to be one.
Websites & customer systems for local business
Impossible to miss.
We find exactly where local businesses lose customers online, then we fix it. Websites starting from $149.
The truth
Most local businesses do not have a marketing problem. They have a leak problem. Customers find you, then slip away through a slow site, missing reviews, and phones nobody answers. Marketing pours water in. We fix the bucket.
A typical month, before us
100
potential customers
start the month
The drain, live
100 left
Your site crawls on their phone.
Sixty leave before the page finishes loading. They do not wait. Nobody waits.
No reviews. No easy way to reach you.
Thirty more pick the competitor with proof on the page and a phone that gets answered.
Four walk through your door.
Four. Out of a hundred who were ready to buy.
We plug every leak.
Fast site. Real reviews on autopilot. Every call answered. That is the whole job.
Fix my leaksWhat we do
Pick a weapon.
01
Websites
Loads before they leave
from $149
02
AI Receptionist
Every call answered, 24/7
free pilot
03
The Customer Machine
Site + reviews + calls, one system
custom quote
04
Headshots
Studio-grade, from your photos
CA$39
05
Product Photos
AI enhancement, shelf-ready
from CA$99
06
Immersive 3D Websites
Real depth, right in the browser
from $1,099
Proof, not promises
Invisible to openfor business.
“They built the store, the site, the whole front of the business. We just make the product.” — Mr Burke
A Whitby supplement brand went from no storefront at all to a live store, a cinematic site, and customers checking out. The whole front of the business, built end to end.
AI makes the motion, taste makes the choice. AI has no taste, it has patterns. What you are looking at is the difference: generated fast, then directed line by line against a standard until it stopped looking generated. Full story: the full case study.
Every fix starts as a drawing.
We audit where your customers leak out, then draw the fix before a single page exists.
Then we raise the walls.
You watch it happen on a private preview. Nothing goes live until it looks like money.
Then it opens for business.
Site live, reviews running, every call answered. You own everything, outright.
Proof of craft
Watch one go up.
One house, one camera, every stage. Structure first, surface second, nothing faked — the same order we bring to a storefront, a site, a whole front of business.
- 01The lot
- 02The pour
- 03The frame
- 04The skin
- 05The finish
Finished. Lit. Open for business.
Yours starts the same way, with a drawing. The audit is free, the quote is in writing, and you own everything we build.
Get my free auditAI Receptionist
24/7
Every call answered.
Every job booked.
Live demo — your front desk
IDLE
Demo call — our receptionist agent performing its live booking script, with a simulated caller. No real customer, no real business.
- 01Answers in your name, day and night
- 02Books jobs straight into your calendar
- 03Takes messages and flags the urgent ones
- 04Sends you a summary after every call
A missed call costs a local business real money: most callers who hit voicemail never leave a message, they just call the next name on the list.
Free 2-week pilot. No card. Your price in writing before anything starts.
Get the receptionistPriced in the open
Pick your rung.Every price in writing.
Websites
Website Setupstarting from $149
Standard Build$499
Custom Build$1,099
Blog add-on$250
Immersive 3D Buildfrom $1,099
3D, on top of any build
3D product viewer — up to 5 products, in the browserfrom $499
Glasses mode — true 3D with red/cyan glasses$250 add-on
Care, after launch
Care plan — Basic$79/mo
Care plan — Standard$149/mo
Care plan — Premium$249/mo
Plus — care, content & priority$129/mo
More ways in
AI Receptionistfree 2-week pilot
Headshots — 12 delivered, 3 finalsCA$39
AI product-photo enhancement — 5 photosfrom CA$99
The Customer Machinecustom quote
Not sure which rung fits? Book a free 30-minute call — we will price it in writing.
3D builds are scoped and priced in writing before work starts. Typical delivery runs 2 to 4 weeks from sign-off.
How it works
Four steps.No surprises.
We find the leaks
A free audit of your site, reviews and phones. You see exactly where customers slip away.
You get a plain quote
One price, in writing, before we touch anything. No hourly billing, no mystery line items.
We build it
Private preview first. You approve the look before the world sees it.
You own everything
Site, content, accounts. Yours outright, no lock-in, no hostage fees.
Then it compounds
Reviews grow, calls get answered, the site pays rent. Start at step 01
Straight answers
Asked often.
Because a tight, fast, single-offer site is honest work at that price, and local businesses deserve an entry point that is not a trap. Bigger builds are priced by scope: $499 standard, $1,099 custom, always in writing first.
Most setups are live inside a week. You see a private preview before anything goes public, and nothing launches until you approve the look.
Yes. Site, content and accounts are yours outright. Care plans are month to month; leave whenever you like and take everything with you.
Yes. The audit is free and it is yours to keep, whether you hire us or not. Most owners find at least one leak worth fixing in the first five minutes.
We are based in Whitby and work across Durham Region and Toronto. The work is remote by design; the standards are local.
Empire Inc in Whitby builds business websites starting from $149 for a basic setup. A standard build is $499 and a custom build is $1,099. A blog add-on is $250, and care plans run $79, $149 or $249 a month.
An AI receptionist answers your business calls 24/7, takes messages and books appointments so no call is missed. Empire Inc offers a free 2-week pilot with no card required. Paid plans: Founding $247/month for the first 5 clients, Essential $297/month, Managed $497/month, Partner $1,497/month. Setup is C$750, charged on signing.
Yes. Empire Inc's AI receptionist serves dental practices and other appointment-based businesses in Ontario, answering calls around the clock and booking into the practice's calendar. It starts with a free 2-week pilot, no card required.
Empire Inc charges $99/month for Google Business Profile and review care when added to a website, or $199/month plus a $299 setup fee as a standalone service. The full Local Visibility Retainer, covering the profile, reviews and local SEO, is $299/month.
Empire Inc website care plans are $79/month for Basic, $149/month for Standard and $249/month for Premium, covering updates, backups, security, uptime monitoring and content edits depending on the tier.
Empire Inc AI headshots cost CA$39. You receive 12 photos, choose 3 finals, and get 1 redo. The first sample is free.
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