Custom-built websites for local business. No templates, no page-builder software, no offshore team you never speak to. You work directly with the person writing the code.
Most small businesses in New Bern are running on one of three things: a Facebook page, a site somebody built years ago that nobody can edit anymore, or nothing at all. Meanwhile the customer looking for you is standing on a sidewalk holding a phone.
The work here is straightforward. A site that loads fast on a phone, tells someone what you do and how to reach you, and shows up when they search. That is most of the battle for a local business, and it does not require a marketing agency retainer.
Most of your traffic is a phone. The phone layout gets designed first, then scaled up to desktop.
Structured data, clean page titles, a real sitemap, and local search signals configured properly from day one.
Registered in your name, on your account. If you ever want to move the site elsewhere, nothing is held hostage.
A customer on a phone taps once to call you and once to get directions. It sounds small. It is not.
No stock photo of a smiling person in a headset who has never been to North Carolina.
Static, fast, and cheap to host. No monthly platform fee that climbs every year for software you do not control.
These are complete, working demonstration sites, not mockups. Each one was built for a different kind of local business to show what the finished product actually looks like.
A booking and payments platform built for a New Bern service business is live and running daily. CLV Shop Suite
Compass Line Ventures is run by Brian Wielhouwer, a retired Marine and former law enforcement officer based in New Bern. No account manager, no handoff to a team you never meet, no ticket queue.
The company is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and a Veteran-Owned Small Business through the SBA, registered and active in SAM.gov.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A three page site for a service business is a different project than a site with online booking and payments. Scoping happens on a call, and you get a fixed number before any work starts. No hourly billing, no surprise invoice.
Most small business sites take one to three weeks from the point where content is settled. Content is usually what sets the pace, not the build.
No. If you can send a text message you can handle everything asked of you.
New Bern and Craven County are home, and in-person is easy here. Everything can also be done over video, so location is not a limit. Discovery calls happen over Google Meet either way.
You own the domain and the content. Hosting and deployment stay managed so you are not troubleshooting a server. Changes are quoted as they come up, or covered under a support agreement if you want one.
Yes. Compass Line Ventures builds custom applications alongside web work, including software currently in use by first responders. If your business needs something a website cannot do, that conversation is on the table.
No pitch deck, no pressure. A short call to figure out whether this is worth doing and what it would take.