About Winsome

Hi - I'm Michelle.

Product designer and builder by trade, local through and through - I live in Cochrane, just up the road from Calgary. I started Winsome for the businesses that have something genuinely great to offer - and deserve to be found for it.

Michelle, founder of Winsome, in the Rocky Mountains above Banff

Home turf - the Rockies, above Banff.

Why this exists

The gap I couldn't unsee

Everywhere I looked in Calgary, I kept meeting the same story. A local business - great food, great work, great reviews - paying real money every month for their website. Waiting weeks for the smallest change. And still invisible when someone searches for exactly what they do.

They'd been sold a beautiful brochure. What they needed was traction.

So Winsome is built to be the opposite of that: a website designed properly, changes done the same day you ask, and the unglamorous monthly work that actually moves you up Google - with a plain-English report so you always know exactly what you're paying for.

What that means in practice
  • A website designed and built for you - beautiful, fast on a phone, and made to match the business you actually run.
  • Changes done for you, same-day - email us what you want different; it's live before tomorrow.
  • The ranking work agencies call SEO - every month, a fresh page aimed at what your city is actually searching for.
  • Hosting, domain and business email - all included, nothing extra to buy.
  • Your newest Google reviews - shown on your site automatically.
  • A plain-English monthly report - what changed, and where you show up on Google now.
  • After 12 months, it's yours - the site and the domain. No hostages.
Off the clock

When I'm not building, I'm outside - in the mountains hiking all summer and skiing all winter, usually with a camera in hand. I like making things, trying new things, and doing life at full volume. At heart I'm a builder: I'd rather ship you something great than talk about shipping it. And nothing beats watching a local owner's work finally get found.

One more thing, because it matters. The internet is filling up with overnight operations pumping out cookie-cutter websites, taking deposits, and disappearing. I can't stop them - I can only be the opposite: a real person, in Calgary, with my name on the work. Every site we've built is live - click through them yourself. And if you'd like to look me in the eye before trusting me with your business, coffee's on me.

Free audit

Let's see where you stand.

Tell us your business name and we'll send you a one-page audit: how you show up on Google today, what's broken, and what we'd fix. Plain English, reviewed by a real person.

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