Blue Crane Works Hamilton, Ontario

Websites built to be found. Applications that run the work.

One shop, one system. Blue Crane Works in Hamilton, Ontario designs, builds and runs websites that Google, ChatGPT and Copilot can read and quote correctly, and the custom applications that run the work behind them: your quotes, jobs, crew and customers in an app with your name on it. Websites $0 down, from $189 a month.

Check if ChatGPT can find your business See a custom application

Free check. Plain-English scorecard by email. No account.

A website we built and run
The Referral Flooring website, a Burlington flooring contractor, built and run by Blue Crane Works
An application we built and run
Jackman Mechanical's own app, built by Blue Crane Works: the morning screen with new requests, today's booked job and money owed

One shop, one system

Which door do you need?

Most customers come in through one and end up using both. The website brings the calls in. The application runs the work that follows. Together they are one system, on one bill: the Run plan, from a $3,995 build and $449 a month.

Door one. For any local business

Your website, run for you.

$189a month CAD for the first year, $0 down. Or $995 + $99 a month.

We design it, build it, host it and keep it current. Every page is written so an AI assistant can read it and quote it correctly. Add booking and quote intake when you want more calls.

  • Managed website, AI-readable from day one
  • Booking and quote intake the Booked plan, $1,995 + $199 a month
  • AI Visibility Pass for a site you already have
  • AI agents AI that answers your phone and chat, texts built to order
  • Free account your visitors and a weekly AI check
Managed websites, $0 down from $189 The AI Visibility Pass

After the first year, Care is $99 a month, month to month. Plus HST. See the website styles we build.

Door two. For trades, contractors and growing companies

Your own app, built around how you work.

$419a month CAD and up for the first year, $0 down. Or from $1,995 + $249 a month.

Quotes, job plans, crew hours, subcontractors and a customer portal, in an app with your name on it, in place of Jobber, Housecall Pro and CompanyCam, shaped around how you work.

  • Custom application from $1,995 + $249 a month
  • Website + custom application the Run plan, from $3,995 + $449 a month
  • Built around your company only the parts you need
Custom applications, $0 down from $419

Scoped in writing first. No per-user fees. Plus HST.

Door one. Websites and visibility

Can ChatGPT find your business?

Often not, and the reasons are technical. A setting on the site quietly turns AI crawlers away, or the facts are painted in by script where no assistant can read them. The owner never sees it and ranking reports stay green. We check for it free, and every website we build is tested the same way before it launches.

Can an AI find yourbusiness.ca?Sample

1 blocker found. Until this is fixed, at least one assistant cannot use this site no matter how good the content is.

  • Pass
    robots.txt lets the AI crawlers inNone of the 11 published AI and search crawler names is blocked from the homepage.
  • Blocker
    AI crawlers receive the same page a browser doesClaudeBot: HTTP 403 where a browser got 200. A firewall or bot rule is turning that crawler away even though robots.txt may allow it. No ranking tool shows this.
  • Pass
    No setting silently removes the page from AI answersNo noindex, noarchive, nosnippet or nocache directive on the homepage, in the HTML or in the headers.
  • Check
    The files assistants read are in placesitemap.xml present; no llms.txt; no Markdown for agents.
A sample, showing four of the seven checks. Yours is measured live against your own homepage and emailed to you in plain English.
  1. You type your web address.No account and no card. The check runs while you wait.
  2. We fetch your homepage as a browser and as four AI crawlers.If a crawler is handed a different page, or turned away, that is the fault no ranking report shows.
  3. We read your robots.txt for every published crawler name.And look for the settings that quietly remove a page from AI answers, and for the files assistants read.
  4. You get a scorecard by email.Pass, check or blocker on each line, in plain English. If it comes back clean, we tell you that too.
Run the free check What is AI visibility?

Nobody can promise an assistant will name you. We fix what can be measured.

Websites we built and run

How the managed website works
Two Garage Doorman websites side by side in browser frames: the commercial site for rolling steel doors and dock equipment, and the residential site for garage door repair and installation from Hamilton to Niagara Grimsby. Garage doors, residential and commercial Garage Doorman Two websites from one pipeline. One was an unfinished template and the other was invisible to Google entirely. Both were rebuilt as 76 pages across two domains and moved off Wix without dropping the company email, with a design-your-own-door tool on the residential side and a maintenance-program intake on the commercial one. Read the case study The managed website $189a month CAD for the first year. $0 down. We design it, build it, host it and keep it current. Or pay a $995 build and $99 a month Care. After the first year, $99 a month, month to month. Design and build, nothing up front Hosting, the domain and email routing Content changes whenever you need them A visibility update every quarter Booking and quote intake on the Booked plan See what is included The Amarettos homepage: the Dundas storefront at dusk under the headline Timeless, by design Dundas. Women's clothing Amarettos A shop open since 1985 with a one-page website, rebuilt as 28 real pages written from its own facts, brands and fitting help. Read the case study The Referral Flooring homepage: the headline Pick your floor at your own kitchen table beside a four-step estimate form Burlington. Flooring Referral Flooring Quote intake in four steps, an owner's portal for the enquiries that come out of it, and 36 questions answered from the published installation standard rather than guesswork. Visit the live site The Dodge Daddy homepage: a red badge logo on carbon black under the headline Ram 1500 parts, pulled in Hamilton, 4th and 5th gen Hamilton Region. Used truck parts Dodge Daddy A Ram 1500 part-out, built around the owner's own badge: 41 pages covering every part category, three truck generations and eleven cited guides. Visit the live site

Door two. Applications

What applications does Blue Crane Works build?

Nameplate: custom applications built for your company and named for it, from a $1,995 build and $249 a month, or $0 down from $419 a month. And three products of our own, ready today: SIGNAL finds public tenders, Inventory tracks parts and stock, and Blackbox turns paper archives into searchable files. All of it is built and operated by us, in Hamilton.

Toronto. Plumbing, gas and heating

Jackman Mechanical: a new website, and the office app it feeds.

Every request from the website, every photo texted to the business line and every enquiry an AI assistant sends lands in one Inbox. From there the owner writes the estimate by talking, sends it, books the job, invoices it and files the receipts against it, all in an app with the company's own name on it. That is Nameplate.

  • One inbox for website requests, texts and assistant enquiries
  • Estimates written by talking, sent by email and text
  • From yes to booked, invoiced and paid, with receipts by job
Read the case study See Nameplate

Nameplate custom apps from a $1,995 build and $249 a month. Scoped in writing first.

The Jackman Mechanical app writing an estimate: the chat on the left, the finished estimate on the right
SIGNAL Public bids matched to your trade, area and contract size, in your inbox every morning. See SIGNAL Inventory Inventory software set up around how your business stocks parts, not around a template. See Inventory Blackbox Filing cabinets turned into searchable documents, every page traceable to the original. See Blackbox Nameplate Your company's own app, with your name on it, in place of Jobber-style tools. Add card payments and video calls. $0 down, from $419 a month. See Nameplate

On the shelf: the Blue Crane app, the job-site app we started with. Existing customers still run on it; it is not offered to new customers.

One team behind both

Why one shop for both?

Because it is one job. The website gets the business found and brings the calls in. The software runs the work that follows. One team builds both, runs both and answers the phone.

Origin

Built by a tradesman, in Hamilton

Blue Crane Works was started by a Hamilton millwright with eighteen years in plants, factories and renovations. It is built for the person who runs the business, not for a marketing department. About the company

Managed

We run what we build

A managed website includes hosting, the domain, content changes and a quarterly visibility update. Our applications are operated by us. Nothing is handed over and left to go stale.

Straight

We fix what can be measured

Nobody can promise that an assistant will name you, and we do not. What can be measured is whether every major crawler reaches your full pages and whether anything is silently blocking them. That is the work, and it is put in writing.

No account needed

Free for the trades

Contractor Form Maker 126 Canadian contractor forms. Fill on screen and print. Open the forms Toolbox Talks Printable five-minute crew safety talks with a sign-in sheet. Pick a talk Articles The rules that decide if you get paid, and how businesses get found by AI. Read the articles Trades Tax Calculator Free tax math for Ontario contractors, with sourced 2026 rates. Open the calculator

Common questions

Questions people ask us

What does Blue Crane Works do?

Two things, from one shop in Hamilton. We design, build, host and run websites for local businesses, written so Google and AI assistants can read them. And we build applications for trades and growing companies: our own products, ready today, and custom applications on Azure and Microsoft 365.

How much does a website cost?

A $995 build and $99 a month Care, with three ways to pay: $895 in full at signing, half at signing and half before launch, or $0 down at $189 a month for the first twelve months, then $99 a month. That covers design, build, hosting, the domain, email routing, content changes and a quarterly visibility update. Booking and quote intake come with the Booked plan, $1,995 and $199 a month. CAD, plus HST. See all pricing

I already have a website. Can you work on it?

Yes. The AI Visibility Pass is a one-time technical pass on the site you already have, $750 to $1,500 on a fixed quote. Start with the free check to see whether you need it. How the Pass works

What is the Blue Crane app?

The job-site app Blue Crane started with: certificates, documents, receipts, estimates and crew sign-offs, every job in one place. Existing customers still run on it. It is not sold on its own; a company that wants its own app gets a custom application, built around how it works. See the app

Is there a free account?

Yes. A free Blue Crane account shows who visits your website and where they came from, including the AI assistants, and checks every Monday whether Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can reach it. Up to five sites, no card. How the free account works

Do you build custom software?

Yes. We build contractors and trades their own application for quotes, job plans, crew hours, subcontractors and a customer portal, with an assistant built in, in place of tools like Jobber, Housecall Pro and CompanyCam. From a $1,995 build and $249 a month, or $0 down from $419 a month. With a website as one system, the Run plan starts at $3,995 and $449 a month. See a live one

Can an AI answer my phone and my website chat?

Yes. We offer three AI agents: a voice agent for your phone, a chat agent for your website and a text agent for your texts. Each says it is an AI, answers only from facts you approve, and sends you the customer's name, contact and what they need. The chat agent is $50 a month on a managed website and runs on a client's site today; the voice agent is quoted in writing, and the card at the top of this page plays a recorded sample. The text agent is built to order and is not running for anyone yet. How the three agents work

Where do you work?

Based in Hamilton. On site across Hamilton, Niagara and the Greater Toronto Area, and remotely with clients anywhere in Ontario. Websites and software do not need us in the room, so distance is rarely a problem.

Start with the door you need.

Find out in a minute whether AI assistants can read your website, or see an application we built for a real contractor. Or call, and a person answers.

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905-570-5344. Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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