Your Austin company grew up. The website stayed the same age.
Website redesign for Austin businesses whose site still describes a smaller, earlier version of them. CANDIMA works from Burnaby, British Columbia — no Austin office, and this page says what that costs you.
The Austin version of this problem
Austin's business base is young. Most companies here launched or relocated between 2015 and 2022, when the site was whatever shipped over a weekend: a bought theme, a founder's cousin, an early hire long gone.
Then it became something else: forty staff, a second location off the Domain, contracts that clear procurement. Or thirty trucks instead of two, because the metro gained a few hundred thousand people who needed remodels. Nobody told the website.
The symptoms repeat: a careers page listing three roles while you hire twenty, a blog that stops in 2022, a demo button aimed at a founder's personal calendar. Not a design flaw — a stature gap. The site depicts a smaller company than the one a buyer is about to pay. Austin buying often starts cold too: a booth in March, then the site opened alone at 11pm with nobody to explain what it omits.
What the search data refuses to say
"Website redesign austin" returns 1,600 searches a month at $25.59 a click. So does "website design austin" — same volume, same price. Google does not treat redesign as its own market. No quiet niche here.
| Search term | Monthly | CPC | KD |
|---|---|---|---|
| website redesign austin | 1,600 | $25.59 | n/a |
| website design austin | 1,600 | $25.59 | 77 |
| web design company austin | 480 | $32.91 | 35 |
| website designer austin | 480 | $24.11 | 85 |
CPC is cost per click. KD is a tool score, not a verdict — page one gets read before anyone quotes a timeline, and the tool returned none for the redesign phrase. The obvious phrases sit at 77-85 and are spoken for; "web design company austin" scores 35 at the highest click price on the list. And at $25.59, forty clicks is a thousand dollars, so fixing the site beats raising the ad budget.
Rebuilds you can open and browse
Live builds, not mockups. The test is simple: does each site read the size of the business standing behind it?
Canadian clients, not Austin work dressed up as ours.
What hiring a Canadian firm actually involves
Hours. Burnaby is Pacific, Austin Central — two hours, in the useful direction. We are online by 10am your time and still working at 7pm, so your afternoon always has a live team in it.
Money. We invoice in USD or CAD at a rate fixed for the engagement. The Canadian dollar is the honest reason a US budget stretches further here — an exchange-rate advantage, not a discount, and rates move both ways.
Paperwork. Your finance team wants a W-8BEN-E, not a W-9. Work performed in Canada by a company with no US permanent establishment means no treaty withholding, no 1099, and no GST on exported services. Texas is one of the few states taxing website creation and hosting as a data-processing service; ask your accountant whether use tax lands on your side — we do not collect it.
Ownership. Repository, domain, DNS and source files transfer on final payment, in writing, before work starts.
The part we cannot do
We are never in the room. Nobody drives to your office, sits through a two-day workshop or shoots your team on site. If the rebrand needs twelve people around a table, hire an Austin firm and pay the premium. With no Austin address we cannot appear in the map pack. Others rent a mailbox for that; we would rather lose the click.
Austin redesign questions, answered straight
Do you have an office in Austin?
No. We are in Burnaby, British Columbia, and Austin work runs remotely. We will not rent a virtual address to look local.
Redesign or rebuild?
If the content model still fits, a redesign on your platform is cheaper. If the site describes a company you no longer are, a reskin just restates the problem in a nicer typeface.
What does a US company need from us?
A W-8BEN-E, an agreement naming a governing law you are comfortable with, and a wire or ACH rail into a Canadian account.
Is a $25.59 click worth paying here?
Not until the page it lands on is finished. At that price, a weak landing page is the most expensive thing you own.
What is the old site costing you?
Send the URL. We write down the gap between the company you are now and the one your site shows.