Found, the Local Foundation, for Ottawa businesses
The obvious choice when someone in your part of Ottawa searches or asks AI. 60 to 90 days, from someone who lives here.
Fixed project, quoted at discovery.
Based here
I live in Ottawa. Alchmy is run from here. Most of the work happens on calls and in your accounts, the same as for a client in Kingston or Calgary. But for an Ottawa business, the discovery call and the exit scorecard can happen across a table, and I can drive by your shop to see the sign your customers see.
How people search in Ottawa
Ottawa is one city on paper and a dozen towns on the map. Orléans, Kanata, Nepean, Barrhaven, Stittsville, the Glebe, Vanier, each twenty minutes from the next.
Google says local results are ranked on relevance, distance and prominence.1 Distance is the one you cannot talk your way out of: a phone in Kanata sees a different list than a phone in Orléans, for the same search.
So a business in Barrhaven that chases "plumber Ottawa" is competing with every plumber in a 40-kilometre circle, for searchers most of whom it will never drive to. The ways people look that it can win are the ones near it. The scorecard picks those first: your own area, "near me", and the neighbourhoods you can actually reach. That is what I measure and what I build for.
My own Day 0, run from here on 2026-11-06, is on the scorecard page. It is not flattering. It is the line I measure against.
A website in Ottawa, as part of one plan
If you searched "web design Ottawa" and landed here: I build websites, and I do not sell them alone. The site is step four of Found. Before it come your offer, your business facts and your Google profile, because the site is written from them and the profile is what Google shows first. After it comes the search and AI work that gets the site read. A site built out of that order looks good and stays invisible. If you only want a site, I will say so and point you elsewhere.
The five steps, in order
- Your offer and your distinctive assets.
- Your business source of truth.
- Google Business Profile, listings and socials, aligned. Complete by day 30.
- Website, built by me or by your builder from my spec.
- On-page SEO with AI visibility inside.
Questions I get
- Do you only build websites?
- No. I build the foundation a website sits on, and the website with it. Not the website alone.
- Do you work outside Ottawa?
- Yes. Remote across English Canada, Ontario first. Ottawa is home, not a border.
Start with your scorecard, measured from here.
Fixed project, quoted at discovery.
Sources
- Google Business Profile Help, Tips to improve your local ranking on Google. support.google.com/business/answer/7091