Avern

Based in PEI · Serving Atlantic Canada

Technology that fits how your business works.

Practical AI, automation, custom software, and websites, built around how your team works.

Start a project

See our work

AI editorial pipeline

Diagram of the PEI Health Coalition news automation: trusted sources monitored, ranked, drafted with AI, and saved for human review

PEI Health Editorial Pipeline

Finds relevant PEI health news each week and drafts updates for staff. Nothing publishes without a person approving it.

B2B vertical SaaS

Vint-OS

A shop operating system for U-Vint, U-Brew, and wine-kit operations across counter, production, bottling, printing, payments, and reporting.

Advocacy website

PEI Health Coalition

A fast advocacy website and CMS that gives the Coalition one place for campaigns, updates, resources, donations, and calls to action.

Product website

Vint-OS Website

A marketing and self-serve signup site built to explain Vint-OS, capture leads, handle pricing, and convert shops into paid subscriptions.

Catalog marketing site

Clipper Ship Jewelry

A warm coastal catalog site for a new PEI jewellery shop, built for product browsing, inquiries, and in-person visits.

Website optimization

PEI UPSE

Existing union site improvements focused on mobile clarity, stronger calls to action, and member conversion.

What it’s like to work with Avern.

Karen Jackson President, PEI UPSE See the project for PEI UPSE

Mary Boyd PEI Health Coalition See the project for the PEI Health Coalition

Why work with Avern

Local context

We know how businesses here run, because we’re one of them.

Diagnosis first

We study the problem before we touch code. The right fix often surprises people.

AI where it pays off

We only recommend AI where it saves real time or money. Sometimes the answer is a better spreadsheet.

Fast, visible progress

Short cycles, working versions, and early feedback. You see results, not silence.

You own everything

Clean code, clear documentation, zero lock-in. Walk away any time.

It usually starts with something like this.

Atlantic Canadian businesses come to us when their website, tools, or day-to-day processes stop keeping up. Sound familiar?

Start a conversation

“We keep hearing about AI, but can’t see where it fits for us.”

That’s the most common place to start. We look at where your team’s time goes, then show you where AI would pay off, and where it wouldn’t.
“Our website doesn’t show how good the business actually is.”

Good leads look, decide, and leave before they ever get in touch. We build sites that show the work as well as you do it.
“Too much of the week goes to quotes, invoices, and admin.”

Those hours never grow the business. They’re usually the first thing worth handing to software.
“Off-the-shelf tools almost fit how we work. Almost.”

So someone patches the gap by hand every week. We build the missing piece around the tools you already use.

Where Avern helps.

Less admin, faster turnaround, and systems your team doesn't have to fight.

AI & Automations

The repetitive work, running itself. AI where it helps, with a person in the loop.

Agents Email Docs Spreadsheets Research Approvals Scheduling Data entry

Software & Internal Tools

Custom systems for the way your team works. Owned outright, documented clean.

Dashboards Portals Databases Custom apps Integrations Admin tools APIs Reporting

Websites

Public-facing sites that load fast, rank well, and your team can keep current.

CMS SEO Hosting Analytics Design Forms Content Catalog sites

What we build with

You don't need to arrive with a spec.

Most clients feel the problem before they can name the solution. Figuring out what to build is part of the work.

Understand

We learn how the business actually works: the tools, the manual steps, the friction. That is where the real scope comes from.

Scope

We find the highest-leverage fix and turn it into a clear scope. Often smaller than you’d expect.

Build

We design and build in short loops, with working versions you can see and react to early.

Support

We stay on for changes and improvements, or hand it off clean. Your call.

FAQs

Most common place to start. We look at where your team spends time drafting, sorting, researching, or doing admin, and find the tasks AI can take off your plate. You don’t need to become an expert.

Often you won’t know yet. We start by understanding the problem, then recommend the smallest thing that moves it. We’ll tell you honestly.

Yes. We’d rather connect what you already pay for than rip it out. We build around your existing site, CRM, spreadsheets, and calendars.

Usually, yes. Most of the AI work we do connects directly to what you already have. Your website, your database, your internal tools. We figure out the integration so your team doesn’t have to.

That’s normal, and exactly what we’re good at. Part of the job is sitting with how the work really happens and turning it into something clear.

Almost always. We prove value with a focused first version, then build from there. No big commitment up front.

Yes. Clean code, clear docs, no lock-in. We can stay on for support or hand it off. Your call.

Yes. Most clients keep us on for changes, fixes, and improvements. Or we hand it off with clean docs and full access. Nothing breaks the day we step back.

It depends on the scope, so every project starts with a written scope, timeline, and price before any work begins.

Based on PEI, focused on Atlantic Canada. We work remotely too when the fit is right.

Something slow, manual, or held together with workarounds?

Tell us what’s going on. We’ll reply within two business days with honest next steps.