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Work with Root & Render

Bring the idea.
I'll help give it shape.

I design websites, build digital tools, solve data problems, and make unusual interactive experiences for people and organizations.

Bring a problem, a sketch, or a half-built idea. We can work out the technical details together.

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Capabilities

What I can help you build.

01
Websites & Digital Presence

A clear, useful home on the internet.

For businesses, independent professionals, creative projects, portfolios, campaigns, and ideas that deserve something more intentional than a generic template.

Good fit for
  • Small-business websites
  • Portfolio and creator sites
  • Landing and campaign pages
  • Website refreshes
Can include
  • Design + development
  • Responsive/mobile build
  • Forms and integrations
  • Content structure and launch
02
Creative Technology

When a normal website is not quite enough.

Interactive maps, playful interfaces, media experiences, prototypes, story systems, visual tools, and other browser-based ideas that need design and code to meet in the middle.

Good fit for
  • Interactive storytelling
  • Map-based experiences
  • Creative prototypes
  • Unusual interfaces
Can include
  • Interaction design
  • Rapid prototyping
  • APIs and external data
  • Technical proof-of-concepts

Explore Museum of Almost Occurrences and SourceWorld.

03
Automation · GIS · Data

Make the repetitive thing happen by itself.

For workflows held together by manual exports, repeated clicks, spreadsheets, maps, reports, or a person remembering to do the same task every Tuesday.

Good fit for
  • Python automation
  • GIS and mapping workflows
  • Data cleanup and processing
  • Internal dashboards and tools
Can include
  • Workflow design
  • Database connections
  • Scheduled processing
  • Reporting and handoff docs

Explore FungaAtlas, a field atlas for nature observations.

04
Data & Digital Rescue

Fix the messy thing before it becomes a bigger thing.

Practical, smaller-scope help for businesses whose spreadsheets, reports, website, forms, data, or digital workflows have become awkward, manual, unreliable, or simply harder than they should be.

Good fit for
  • Spreadsheet and reporting cleanup
  • Website fixes and refreshes
  • Forms, booking, and workflow problems
  • Small-business data headaches
Can include
  • Excel / Google Sheets cleanup and automation
  • Dashboards and lightweight reporting
  • Website, accessibility, analytics, and SEO fixes
  • Simple integrations and process improvements
05
Transmedia & Interactive Storytelling

When the story needs more than one door.

For creators, cultural projects, tourism, museums, community organizations, campaigns, or fictional worlds that can become richer through maps, archives, audio, interactive pages, documents, video, or place-based experiences.

Good fit for
  • Narrative websites
  • Interactive archives
  • Story maps and location layers
  • Cross-media world hubs
Can include
  • Narrative architecture
  • Web and interaction design
  • GIS and spatial layers
  • Audio, documents, data, and media integration

Explore the museum.

06
Custom Projects

The box labelled “something else.”

If your idea combines several disciplines, does not have an obvious name yet, or begins with “this might sound weird,” it is still worth asking.

Good fit for
  • Early-stage concepts
  • Internal tools
  • Creative experiments
  • Technical problem solving
First step

Tell me what you want to happen, what is getting in the way, and what a useful result would look like. We can define the technical shape from there.

Find a starting point

Not sure where to begin?

Choose the kind of project you're considering.

What would you like help with?
A possible trail

Websites & Digital Presence

Start with a clear website or portfolio that helps people understand what you do and get in touch.

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We can refine the scope together.

Based in Durham Region, Ontario

Rooted locally. Built for wherever you are.

Root & Render is an independent Ontario studio working with small businesses, artists, makers and organizations. Local projects across Newcastle, Bowmanville, Clarington and Durham Region are especially welcome, and remote collaborations are possible too.

Whether the need is a straightforward website, cleaner reporting, a working form, or a more unusual interactive project, the first step is to explain what would make your day easier.

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How it works

Clear enough to move. Flexible enough to think.

  1. 01

    Tell me the problem

    A short form submission is enough. Rough ideas are welcome.

  2. 02

    Shape the project

    I’ll ask what matters, identify the useful scope, and recommend an approach.

  3. 03

    Agree on the work

    You get a clear scope, quote, deliverables, and expectations before paid work begins.

  4. 04

    Build & hand off

    We make it, test it, and leave you with something you understand and can actually use.

Scope, not packages

A scope that fits.

Projects are quoted individually because a five-page brochure site and a five-page interactive application can be completely different amounts of work.

Once I understand the goal, I’ll recommend a sensible scope and provide a quote before we start. If there is a budget ceiling I should design around, tell me—it helps rather than hurts.

What are you working on?

Tell me what you'd like to make, improve, or solve.

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