Digital Growth Services
A findable, credible Google presence that keeps working.
- Google Business Profile build-out
- Listing setup and correction on core directories
- Review management and reputation
- Posting automation and reporting
The Gap Analysis. Find out what's broken before you build, grow, and scale.
Based in Toronto, serving businesses across Canada and the United States.
SEO · AEO · GEO · Google Business · AI automation
Growth stalls at the joins — search to site, site to systems, systems to the people running them. We find the join that's broken and fix it.
- Published case studies
- 4
- Service pages
- 5
- Published articles
- 43
Core method
The Gap Analysis.
Most businesses don't have one big problem. They have a gap — the listing nobody updates, the form that doesn't send, the job typed in three places. It stays hidden because everyone works around it.
We find the gap before we quote a build. If what you already run works, it stays. You own the code once the project is paid in full.
Where a Gap Analysis looks
An example loop, not your results. Every scan starts with the places customers actually check.
- Google Business
- Meta
- Threads
- Quora
- Medium
- Local citations
Detection feed
- Google Businesschecked00:01
- Metachecked00:01
- Facebookchecked00:02
- Instagramchecked00:02
- Threadschecked00:03
- LinkedInchecked00:04
- Quorachecked00:04
- Mediumchecked00:05
- Local citationschecked00:06
Start Here
What's Actually Broken?
Find the row that sounds like your business. It opens an intake already tagged with that problem, so we start from what you're seeing, not from a sales pitch.
- Google listingNobody's managing our Google listingGoogle still shows last winter's hours, or a phone number you stopped using.Reviews, good and bad, sit unanswered for weeks.Nothing new posted in months, so the listing looks abandoned.Someone searching "near me" taps the listing that looks open and looked after. If that isn't yours, the call goes to the next result.Get the listing checked
- Search and AIWe're invisible on Google, and on ChatGPTSearch your service plus "Toronto" and a competitor sits above you.Ask ChatGPT or Google's AI who to call in your trade and your name never comes up.Your site has no page for the service you most want calls for.Search results and AI answers name a short list. People pick from what they see first, so if you're not on it, you're not even considered.Find out why
- WebsiteOur site looks dated or isn't convertingThe page is slow to load on a phone.The phone number isn't a tap-to-call button.The contact form sends you nothing, or the message lands in spam.Visitors arrive, hit a snag and leave without calling. Everything you spent to get them there is lost at the last step.Audit the site
- SystemsOur team's drowning in manual busyworkThe same job gets typed into two or three different places.Quotes, bookings and invoices live in spreadsheets and email threads.Only one person knows how it all fits together.Hours disappear into re-typing, and every copy is another chance for a wrong number. The week that person is away, work stalls.Map the workflow
Services
Four services. One Gap Analysis.
We grow your digital presence, build your website, make it findable in search and AI answers, and build the software your business runs on.
Website Design & Development
Fast, mobile-first sites built to turn visits into calls.
- Custom marketing websites
- High-conversion landing pages
- Web application frontends
- Core Web Vitals performance
SEO & Answer Engine Optimization
Show up on Google and in AI answers.
- Technical SEO architecture
- On-page and content optimization
- AEO and AI search visibility
- Keyword strategy and rank tracking
Custom App & Platform Development
Custom apps, platforms and AI automation built around how you work.
- iOS and Android native apps
- Custom B2B and B2C platforms
- AI automation with human approval gates
- API and backend engineering
Ready to get started? We scope every engagement to what your business actually needs, with no bloat and no platform lock-in.
Selected Work
Our Work.
NorthGuard is the published Gap Analysis proof. More studies and the client list are on the case studies page.
Corrected Oct 1 2026: an unverified project listing was removed. NorthGuard has a published case study. Lakewood Snow is listed as selected work.
01Technical SEO / Window Film
NorthGuard Window Film
35/100; 98/100Previously reported audit scores, Jul and Aug 2026
A site-wide rendering bug returned identical HTML on every route. Previously reported technical SEO audit scores were 35/100 on July 9, 2026 and 98/100 on August 10, 2026. The audit files and tool version are not archived for republication. This is not presented as a single-variable result.
Related party: a Schkovl co-founder holds a partner stake in NorthGuard Window Film.
- Gap Analysis
- Prerender
- SEO
02
Lakewood Snow
Schkovl built the Belton site, the winter sister site of Lakewood Outdoor. Commercial snow and ice operations for property managers, with a quote form that sends email.
Visit lakewoodsnow.caLive client deployments
Execution Sequence
Analyze
Deep operational diagnostics. Identifying bottlenecks and systemic friction points.Deliverable: a written list of what's broken.We hash what the live system actually does — routes, handoffs, listings, software, and the workarounds the team already runs. No build recommendation until the gap is named.
Architect
Designing scalable data models, AI protocols, and infrastructure blueprints.Deliverable: a blueprint for only the system that closes the gap.The blueprint maps only the system that closes the gap. Existing tools stay if they work. We do not sell a stack first and retrofit the problem later.
Build
Precision engineering. Custom interfaces, APIs, and agentic networks.Deliverable: custom code you own once the project is paid in full.You own the custom code when the project is paid in full. We build on standard tooling another team can take over — no platform lock-in.
Deploy
Secure rollout, continuous monitoring, and iterative operational scaling.Check: we re-run the same test that found the gap.Ship behind measurement. Re-run the same test that found the gap. If the number does not move, the work is not done.
Autonomous Systems
Software that acts.
Inside Custom App & Platform Development, Schkovl builds AI automation that runs multi-step work end to end — on least-privilege access, with a person approving anything that matters.
- Continuous process optimization
- Intelligent resource allocation
- Autonomous workflow execution
- Real-time adaptive data pipelines
Founders
Who you work with.
Two partners. Named inboxes. No account manager layer between you and the work.
Dillon Kovljenic
Co-Founder of Schkovl
B.Comm. (Hons.) Finance & Economics, University of Guelph
Dillon Kovljenic is Co-Founder of Schkovl. His work focuses on local search, AI-search visibility, business automation and digital infrastructure for small businesses in Toronto, New York, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
dillon.kovljenic@schkovl.com
Calder Schantz
Co-Founder of Schkovl
Bachelor's Degree in Advertising, OCAD University
Calder Schantz is Co-Founder of Schkovl. He is a Toronto graphic and branding designer whose published work includes production design for Walmart and Shopify store builds. Schkovl serves small businesses in Toronto, New York, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
calder.schantz@schkovl.comThe Difference
Custom-built around the gap we find.
We look at how your business actually runs, name what's costing you work or calls, and build only the thing that fixes it. Nothing you didn't ask for, nothing you can't take somewhere else.