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Prince Edward IslandBased in PEI · Serving Atlantic Canada

We build what your business runs on.

Clearer websites, faster operations, and digital tools that actually match how your business runs.

Selected work

Product website
Vint-OS

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.

B2B vertical SaaS
Vint-OS

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

PEI Health Coalition

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

AI editorial pipeline
PEI Health Coalition

PEI Health Editorial Pipeline

A cautious editorial pipeline: trusted sources, scored stories, generated visuals, Sanity drafts, and human review before publishing.

Catalog marketing site
Clipper Ship Jewelry

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
UPSE

UPSE

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

 Product website
Vint-OS

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.

B2B vertical SaaS
Vint-OS

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

PEI Health Coalition

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

AI editorial pipeline
PEI Health Coalition

PEI Health Editorial Pipeline

A cautious editorial pipeline: trusted sources, scored stories, generated visuals, Sanity drafts, and human review before publishing.

Catalog marketing site
Clipper Ship Jewelry

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
UPSE

UPSE

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

What it’s like to work with Avern.

Two of the organizations above, on how the work actually went.

“Working with Avern founder, Finlay Barrett, was a pleasure. His work was high quality, detailed, efficient, timely, and cost effective. I would engage the services of Avern again for future projects and would strongly recommend him to other organizations seeking IT assistance.”

Karen Jackson President, PEI UPSE

“You made it easy for the rest of us while keeping us informed step by step. Now we have our great site.”

Mary Boyd PEI Health Coalition

Why work with Avern

Local context

We understand how businesses here actually operate. No assumptions, no fluff.

Diagnosis first

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

Design and dev together

Strategy, design, and engineering under one roof. Nothing lost in handoffs.

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.

When businesses call us

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.

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

Most of the businesses we work with know there’s opportunity, but aren’t sure how to apply it in a practical, high-ROI way.

“Our website doesn’t show how good the business actually is.”

The work is strong and the site undersells it. Good leads look, decide, and leave before they ever get in touch.

“Too much of the week goes to quotes, invoices, and admin.”

Those hours go into work that never grows the business. It’s usually the first thing worth handing to software.

“Everything lives in spreadsheets and one person’s head.”

That works until the person is away, or until two people need the same answer and get different ones.

“Off-the-shelf tools almost fit how we work. Almost.”

So the process bends around the software, and someone patches the difference by hand every week.

“We’re growing, and the manual way is starting to crack.”

What held together at ten jobs a week starts dropping things at thirty. Better to rebuild it before it breaks on a customer.

Sound familiar?

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Where Avern helps

AI that fits. Systems that last.

The result is less overhead, faster turnaround, and systems your team doesn't have to fight.

Websites

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

CMS SEO Hosting Analytics Design Forms Content Catalog sites

Agentic AI & Automations

The repetitive work, running itself. AI where it actually helps, a human in the loop.

Agents Email Docs Spreadsheets Research Approvals Scheduling Data entry

Software & Internal Tools

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

Dashboards Portals Databases Custom apps Integrations Admin tools APIs Reporting

What we build with

How projects start

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.

1

Understand

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

2

Scope

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

3

Build

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

4

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 where AI cuts that in half. 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 actually 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.

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 slow, confusing, or stuck. We'll reply within two business days.

Tell us what's broken