Vela Works Canada

Vela · Latin for sail

You steer the business. We handle the busywork.

Vela Works Canada sells two things every owner runs out of: time, by doing your month-end reporting for you, and money, by helping more customers find you through SEO and marketing that keeps working after you close your laptop. It's the kind of work a full-service agency would bill much more for, delivered on a timeline they usually can't match. Every deliverable is reviewed by a person before it reaches you.

Now accepting founding clients · Remote-first, across Canada

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Chart No. 1: the Vela route

Everything we sell buys one of two things

Product one

Time

The bookkeeping busywork (categorizing expenses, building P&L summaries, writing up what changed and why) done for you, CRA-aware, and delivered in plain English. Your evenings come back.

Harbor does this from $395/mo →

Product two

Money

SEO tuned to Canadian search and marketing that follows up while you sleep, at the level of a full-time hire without the full-time cost, so the customers already looking for what you do actually find you, and stay found.

Compass does this from $749/mo →

How a voyage begins

  1. Waypoint 1

    Chart the course

    A short intake (over email, or a call if you'd rather) maps what eats your week: month-end paperwork, an invisible website, follow-ups that slip. You pick a plan; we set the route.

  2. Waypoint 2

    We pull the oars

    We do the heavy lifting (drafting reports, researching keywords, building sequences) fast, and on a fixed monthly rhythm you can plan around.

  3. Waypoint 3

    A person signs off

    Nothing reaches you without human review. Deliverables arrive finished, in plain English, ready to act on, not a rough draft you have to babysit.

Want the unabridged version, including what we never do? See the full process.

Four plans, one heading

Start in the harbor, sail as far as you like. Every plan is a monthly engagement with fixed scope and a person reviewing the work.

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Starter · Halifax

Harbor

Safe harbor for your books.

Month-end financial busywork, taken off your desk. Clean, decision-ready reports, CRA-aware and reviewed by a person before they reach you.

$395CAD / month
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Growth · Vancouver

Compass

Get found. Stay on course.

Everything in Harbor, plus SEO built for Canadian search. You get real agency output without an agency retainer, so the hours you save start compounding into customers who find you.

$749CAD / month
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Professional · Toronto

Voyage

Full sail. Every channel pulling.

The full operator layer: reporting, SEO, and marketing working together. It's what a small in-house team would deliver, minus the in-house payroll, with priority turnaround and a quarterly strategy review.

$1,195CAD / month
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Premium · St. John's

Horizon

Chart water no one else has mapped.

Custom scope for multi-entity operations: year-end packages, an industry playbook built for your vertical, and dedicated capacity with same-week turnaround.

from $1,995CAD / month

New: website builds

Need the vessel, not just the crew?

We build websites too: from a trim informational site to a fully custom storefront. And if you subscribe to any operations plan, the build drops 20% and upkeep is half price.

Explore website builds

Why owners hand Vela the oars

CRA-aware by default

Financial deliverables are formatted with Canada Revenue Agency requirements in mind, so tax season starts organized instead of panicked.

Human review, every time

We move fast on the busywork; a person checks every deliverable before it ships. You never receive an unreviewed first draft.

Built for Canada

Canadian search intent for SEO, Quebec Law 25 awareness for data handling, and cross-provincial context throughout.

Outcomes, not tools

You never need to learn a new platform or manage a freelancer. You buy finished work: reports, rankings, and campaigns that run themselves.

Founding-client openings · Summer 2026

The tide doesn't wait, and neither does month-end.

Tell us which plan fits and we'll reply with a scoped quote, no calls required until you want one.

Request a quote