Toronto, Canada

Making the internet work for local businesses

Websites, all-in-one business setups, AI enablement, and ERP work. Built lean, with modern tools, by someone who has spent ten years across the technical, operational, and marketing sides of business.

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What we do

Four Ways We Help Local Businesses, SMBs, and Enterprises

Each project is scoped tightly, priced honestly, and shipped without months of planning before anything gets built.

Web Development

Modern, fast websites for local businesses and SMBs. From a single landing page to a full booking, blog, and content stack. Every site comes with a clean admin panel so you can update copy, prices, and photos without calling us back. We use modern web stacks (no WordPress unless you ask), you own the code, and the site is yours to host wherever makes sense.

Custom design and build, or thoughtful redesign of what's already running.
Booking forms, online ordering, content management, blogs, member areas.
Performance, SEO basics, schema, sitemaps, mobile and accessibility.
Hosting, domain, deployment, and a real handover document.

From $400

All-in-One Business Setup

The whole stack of how customers find you, book or order, get served, and leave a review. Instead of stitching together twenty disconnected tools (one for the website, one for booking, one for CRM, one for email, one for reviews), we set up an integrated system that runs as one. You stop logging into seven different things every Monday morning.

Lead intake (forms, chat widgets, GBP integration), customer database, and tagging.
Automated email and SMS flows: confirmations, reminders, follow-ups, review asks.
Order or booking management with payment, calendar, and team-share.
Review capture from Google, Facebook, and direct, displayed back on the site.
Analytics and reporting that actually answers "where is the business coming from".

From $700

AI Enablement

Practical AI for small business, not the overhyped kind. Chatbots that actually answer questions about your business and book appointments. Workflow automations that pull weight on the boring parts (Make.com, Zapier, custom). AI agents for specific jobs like first-pass lead qualification, content drafts for social and email, and scheduling logistics. Built on top of the tools you already use, not a separate platform you have to learn.

Custom chatbots trained on your services, hours, and FAQs.
Automation workflows in Make, Zapier, or custom code, for whatever's repetitive.
AI-assisted content (social, email, posts) with your voice baked in.
Lead qualification, smart routing, and follow-up sequences.

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ERP & Business Process Consulting

For SMBs that have outgrown spreadsheets and enterprises planning a system change. We map your current workflow end-to-end, identify the friction points, recommend a system that actually fits (we are vendor-agnostic), and run the implementation, including data migration, process redesign, team training, and post-launch support.

Process discovery, current-state mapping, and gap analysis.
Vendor selection across NetSuite, Odoo, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, and others.
Implementation, data migration, integrations, and go-live support.
Team training, change management, and ongoing optimization.

Vendors we work with

From $35 / user / month

Final estimate depends on requirements and implementation complexity.

Recent work

Built for Real Businesses, Shipped, and Running

A few quick examples of what we mean by lean, modern, and end-to-end. Full case studies coming soon.

Donna's Table

Web + Operations

Donna's Table

A personal chef and catering business in Mississauga. We built a full website with a booking form, blog, menu, packages, events gallery, and review wall, plus an admin panel that lets her run everything herself. Donna no longer juggles five separate tools.

Visit donnastable.ca

Porsche's Gardens

Web Development

Porsche's Gardens

Landscaping and garden services in the GTA. A clean, photo-led site with service pages, a booking inquiry form, and a portfolio of past projects. Set up to grow into a full operations stack as the business scales.

Case study coming soon

True North Tropical

Web + eCommerce

True North Tropical

A Caribbean farmshare and grocery in Toronto. Custom WordPress + WooCommerce build with tiered subscription boxes, one-off produce ordering, Helcim + Interac payments, and a lightweight admin so the owner runs the whole store herself.

Visit truenorthtropical.com

Hairedin

Web + Brand

Hairedin Corp

A premium food distribution company in the GTA supplying restaurants, fine food stores, and regional distributors. Editorial marketing site with clear paths for wholesale buyers, a request-a-quote flow, and M365 email + domain setup so Marlon had a complete stack on day one.

Visit hairedincorp.com

What clients say

Reviews From the Businesses We've Built For

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Who's behind it

Built and Run by Sid Kalra

"Over 5 years in tech and 5 years in marketing and communications. Combined 10 years of seeing the technical, operational, and marketing sides of business that I bring to my projects."

The goal of MakeLocal is to help local businesses leverage technology to grow, automate, and prosper, and to help SMBs and enterprises streamline and automate operations to enable taking that next step up.

Every project is run directly by me. No junior account managers, no handoffs, no six-month timelines for simple problems. We figure out what your business actually needs, scope it tight, and ship.

Toronto, Ontario.

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