Blue Crane Works Hamilton, Ontario

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

One shop, two doors. We design, build and run websites that Google, ChatGPT and Copilot can read and quote correctly. And we build the applications trades and growing companies run their jobs on: ours, ready today, or one built for how your company works.

Check if ChatGPT can find your business See the applications

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
The Blue Crane app showing one worksite: its records, crew on site and sign-offs

One shop, two doors

Which door do you need?

Most customers come in through one and end up using both. The website brings the calls in. The applications run the work that follows.

Door one. For any local business

Your website, run for you.

$100a month CAD. $0 down.

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 from $50 a month more
  • AI Visibility Pass for a site you already have
Managed websites, $100 a month The AI Visibility Pass

Twelve-month term, then month to month.

Door two. For trades, contractors and growing companies

Applications that run the work. Ours, or built for you.

$24.99a month CAD, Blue Crane app. 30-day demo.

Ready today: the Blue Crane app for job-site records, SIGNAL for public tenders, Inventory for parts and stock, Blackbox for the paper. Or an application built to how your company actually runs, on the Microsoft stack you already pay for.

  • Blue Crane app certs, documents, receipts, crew sign-offs
  • SIGNAL, Inventory and Blackbox each on its own page
  • Custom applications scoped on a call, priced as a project
See the Blue Crane app Talk about a custom build

Business $24.99. Workflow $49.99. Custom builds quoted in writing.

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 72 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 $100a month CAD. $0 down. We design it, build it, host it and keep it current, on a twelve-month term, then 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 from $50 more 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 29 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?

Four of our own, ready today, and custom applications when nothing off the shelf fits. The Blue Crane app runs job-site records. SIGNAL finds public tenders. Inventory tracks parts and stock. Blackbox turns paper archives into searchable files. All four are built and operated by us, in Hamilton.

The flagship

The Blue Crane app: the system your job sites run on.

Documents, certs, crew sign-offs, costs and estimates, every job in one place. Open it once and you know where every site stands, and which one needs you today.

  • Sites planned in stages, crew invited by QR code
  • Receipts scanned, sorted and costed to the job
  • Tickets, certificates and insurance with warnings before they lapse
See the Blue Crane app Start the 30-day demo

Business $24.99 a month. Workflow $49.99. No card required.

The Blue Crane app on a desktop: a worksite with 148 records, 12 crew on site and 27 sign-offs
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 Custom applications Built to how your company runs, on the Azure and Microsoft 365 you already pay for. Scoped on a call, priced as a project. Talk about a build

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?

$100 a month on a twelve-month term, nothing up front. That covers design, build, hosting, the domain, email routing, content changes and a quarterly visibility update. Booking and quote intake can be added from $50 a month. 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?

Job-site records for contractors: certificates, documents, receipts, estimates and crew sign-offs, every job in one place. Business is $24.99 a month and Workflow is $49.99, with a 30-day demo and no card. See the app

Do you build custom software?

Yes. When an off-the-shelf tool does not fit how a company runs, we build the application that does, on Azure and Microsoft 365. It is scoped on a call, priced as a project, then run for you.

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 open the Blue Crane app demo and see a job site the way your crew would. Or call, and a person answers.

Run the free check Start the 30-day demo Book a call

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