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The Empire flagship

Build your digital empire.

The Empire is my flagship build, from $15,000, for resorts, clubs, real estate teams, venues, clinics, and municipalities. When the website has to carry bookings, memberships, events, listings, payments, and portals, it stops being a brochure and becomes infrastructure.

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The free 60-second website check-up is an automated scan of your current site: speed, SEO, security headers, and best practices.

Why this matters

For a destination business, the website is the revenue path, not the billboard.

Serious buyers research, compare, and commit online before they ever arrive. Most sites at this scale were never built to carry that. Bookings, events, and payments get bolted onto a brochure site one plugin at a time, and none of them talk to each other. And a generic theme quietly tells a serious buyer the experience might be generic too. The numbers on direct business make the stakes plain.

80%

of travelers now book entirely online

For destination and hospitality businesses, the website is no longer a brochure. It is the front desk, the reservation line, and the first handshake. If it cannot carry the booking, the booking goes somewhere else.

Stratos Jets travel booking data

$519

average direct booking, vs $320 through an OTA

SiteMinder found the average reservation made on a hotel’s own site was worth far more than one booked through a third party. A website that owns the booking owns the margin, not just the guest.

SiteMinder Hotel Booking Trends via PhocusWire

~50%

of online bookings are now direct

Direct bookings have grown to roughly half of all online reservations. Every guest who books on your platform instead of a marketplace is a relationship you own and a commission you keep.

HFTP hotelier booking trends
The Empire standard

One owned platform that coordinates the whole operation, built to flagship craft.

Empire is the step after Engine. Engine is a strong website for a business with one location and one audience. Empire is for the moment the site has to do real operational work: more pages, multiple audiences, industry SEO, booking and payment workflows, and portals. Every piece is built to the standard a board would expect of any serious capital investment.

  • A competitor audit, industry positioning, and a digital strategy before a single page is designed
  • Security, performance, and accessibility built in from the first commit, not patched on later

The full deliverables menu lives in the package below, so nothing here is a mystery.

Where the line sits: the Empire includes an admin area for everything the site runs, and in most cases I can wire in the CRM or booking system you already pay for. A custom CRM or internal tool is a bigger job than a website, so it is quoted separately as a web app.

Behind the website

The real power is the system behind the page.

At Empire scale, the pages are the smaller half. The systems behind them are where the operation actually runs. I build those custom, around exactly what you need, and you own them.

  1. 01

    Lead tracking and CRM

    Capture every inquiry, route it, follow up, and measure what converts, instead of losing leads in an inbox.

  2. 02

    Workflows and automations

    Forms, notifications, approvals, and internal admin tools that take repetitive work off your team.

  3. 03

    Inventory, scheduling, and job tracking

    The day-to-day records your staff keep in spreadsheets today, moved into one system with one login.

  4. 04

    Quote pipelines and secure intake

    From first request to signed approval, every step tracked and nothing lost in an email thread.

Proof this scale is real

Clear to Enter is this tier, running in production.

My own build, not a client project, and I am saying so up front. It is a bilingual Canadian immigration platform with eight calculators, verified draw datasets, a legal-reference explorer, a paid assessment flow with hardened payment security, and locale-aware search structure. It is live, it takes money, and I designed, built, shipped, and still run it.

That is the honest answer to the question behind an Empire quote, which is rarely about price and almost always about whether one person can finish something this size.

See it liveHow it was built
Own it, do not rent it

I aim to replace your subscription stack.

Most organizations rent a stack of monthly tools that do not talk to each other and hold your data. I build the pieces you actually use into one system you own.

Before

A booking app, a CRM, a form builder, a scheduler, a membership platform, an analytics add-on. Six logins, six monthly bills, and your data scattered across all of them.

After

One custom system you own, shaped around how you operate, with your data in one place and no monthly fees for features you never touch.

Scope determines what is practical to replace. I will tell you honestly when an existing tool is genuinely the better call.

The investment

The flagship build, priced to the scope.

Empire is for organizations where the website becomes the operation. Every build is custom, so the final investment is mapped to exactly what you need, with no ceiling on how far it can go.

The Empire

Flagship

From $15,000

Custom quote. Scope determines final investment.

The full revenue machine, not just more pages.

For organizations where the website coordinates the machine: 7+ custom pages, multiple revenue paths, bookings, memberships, events, listings, products, portals, payments, email, and analytics in one coherent, owned system.

How billing works

The Empire is not on the Own It Monthly plan. Builds this size bill by milestone: you pay as agreed stages go live, and I price the scope before anything starts.

Perfect for

Any organization whose website has to run the operation, with bookings, memberships, events, listings, payments, and accounts, not just describe it.

Delivery: From 8 weeks

Start with the free check-up

The possibilities are endless

A menu of what Empire can include. I scope the right mix to your goals, not a fixed checklist.

  • Competitor audit and full digital strategy
  • Complete brand identity system
  • Up to 50 SEO pages and guides, built to hit your ranking and inbound-link goals
  • High-intent industry SEO across your real markets
  • An admin area where you edit bookings, events, listings and pages yourself
  • Your existing CRM or booking system connected, where the software allows it
  • Member accounts, secure logins, and role-based access
  • Funnels for bookings, memberships, events, products, or locations
  • Online payments, deposits, and paid flows with Stripe
  • Custom calculators, finders, and interactive tools for your audience
  • Automated email, document and PDF generation, and data-driven pages
  • Bilingual or multilingual architecture when you need it
  • Ownership handoff, access cleanup, documentation, and lifetime Lodge access
Real work

Real builds, real owners.

Summit Handyman, a trades platform in Langley, BC, and Family Designs & Creations, a maker site in Castlegar, are real client builds shipped on this same standard. I build from Castlegar for organizations across the Kootenays and beyond.

For Empire-scale work, see two concept builds: City of Silvermere, a municipal platform, and Vale Realty, a real estate platform. Both carry a visible concept build label, because they are demonstrations, not client work.

See the full portfolio

From a real client, on Facebook

Brett from Kootenay Made Digital built my website for my business. He was very friendly and professional, really took my website to a high level. It’s easy for customers to navigate and makes my life a lot easier with all their information on the request an estimate feature. Any minor issues he has been very receptive and promptly fixed! I highly recommend getting your business site built by Kootenay Made Digital!
Brody, sole proprietor of Summit Handyman, Langley BC
Path to launch

From scattered digital presence to an owned operating system.

  1. 01

    I map the build

    Audiences, offers, revenue paths, content, workflows, and competitors, all named before anything is designed.

  2. 02

    I design the system

    Brand direction, page architecture, and the journey behind each booking, membership, listing, or event.

  3. 03

    I build the machine

    The platform, integrations, payments, portals, analytics, and content structure as one coherent build.

  4. 04

    I hand off and stay close

    You get ownership, access, documentation, and training. After launch, my care plans keep the platform healthy.

After launch, my site care plans keep the platform maintained. The full path, payment terms and all, lives on the process page.

Empire industry builds

Empire is built around the market you actually need to win.

A resort should not be structured like a golf course. A real estate platform should not behave like a municipal site. Here is what the system behind the page looks like for each field.

Resorts and hospitality
Availability, direct bookings, a guest portal, deposits, and occupancy analytics that show what actually sells.
Golf and clubs
Tee times or bookings, memberships, dues and renewals, events, and a member portal in one system.
Real estate
Lead tracking, saved searches, showing requests, a client portal, and listing admin in one place.
Memberships and venues
A member or registrant database, dues, ticketing, event management, and a private resource portal.
Clinics and professional firms
Secure intake, client document portals, matter or case tracking, booking with reminders, and billing.
Municipal and organizations
Service requests, public records, permits and forms, notifications, and reporting departments can rely on.
Multi-location businesses
Per-location pages, inventory or scheduling, role-based admin access, and rolled-up reporting across sites.
Empire questions

What serious organizations ask before the rebuild.

What is The Empire package?+

The Empire is my flagship custom platform build, from $15,000, scoped to your goals. The full menu, pricing, and billing details live in the packages section on this page.

See the Empire package
How is Empire different from Engine?+

Engine is my $6,500 website for a business with one location and one audience. Empire starts where the site has to do real operational work: multiple audiences, bookings, payments, portals, and content at scale. If you are not sure which you need, run the free check-up and I will point you at the right one.

Can Empire take direct bookings instead of sending guests to an OTA?+

Yes, and that is often the point. A direct booking is worth more and keeps the guest relationship and the commission with you. Empire captures the reservation, membership, registration, or inquiry cleanly on your own site.

Does Empire include industry SEO?+

Yes. Empire is built around specific search intent: resort websites, golf course websites, real estate websites, municipal website design, tourism websites, venue websites, membership websites, and regional business infrastructure.

What can I actually change myself after launch?+

Everything the site runs. Bookings, events, listings, members, pages, prices, photos, and text all live in an admin area you log into, so you are never waiting on me to fix a typo or add a date. What stays with me is code and design work, which is what the support plans cover. If you can use online banking, you can use the admin.

Can you connect the software I already use?+

Usually, and that is often the cheaper answer than building something new. Most modern tools such as HubSpot, Jobber, Square, Mailchimp, and the main booking platforms offer an API, which is the doorway that lets your website read and write data inside them. Two honest limits. What comes through depends on the permissions that software allows: some let me request narrow, read-only access, others only issue a key that unlocks the whole account, and a few older systems offer no connection at all. And custom fields you have added yourself often are not available even when the standard data is. I check your specific setup before quoting, so you learn what is actually possible before you pay for it.

Who actually owns the site and the access when it launches?+

You do. Empire ends with a clean handoff of domains, hosting, access, analytics, and documentation, so your team or board controls the asset. No vendor fog, no hostage logins, no mystery about who holds the keys.

Is this cybersecurity or penetration testing?+

No. Empire includes secure-by-default planning, access hygiene, ownership clarity, and a clean handoff, but Kootenay Made does not replace a cybersecurity firm, lawyer, insurer, or penetration tester when that specialist work is required.

Ready to claim the territory?

If the business is bigger than a brochure, build the Empire.

Start with the free 60-second website check-up, an automated scan of your current site: speed, SEO, security headers, and best practices. Then bring the moving parts, from bookings to memberships to payments, and I will map the build before the first stone moves.

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