Every enquiry lands in one place
Website forms, missed calls, texts, website chat and social messages, together in one inbox on your phone and desktop, shared with your team.
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Rated 5.0on Google"We had a new website built by Tim at Scalus in Warrandyte and we are really happy with it. We turn up on Google for our work now and that has made a real difference. Tim set us up for AI Search too, so we get found in ChatGPT and not just Google. The enquiries have picked up since the website went live. He did the SEO as well and it is doing exactly what he said it would. The whole thing was turned around fast and I never had to chase him. Easy to deal with from start to finish and nothing was ever a problem. You get someone local who actually answers the phone, not an agency. The website design makes us look like a proper business. It looks just as good on a phone as it does on a computer. If you need a website in Warrandyte, I would give Scalus a call."
"Loved working with Tim. Professional, and warm, listened to what i was looking for and checked in to make sure i was happy. You get someone local who actually answers the phone. Happy to recommend Tim to anyone in Warrandyte looking for a website."
"Scalus is an absolute must for our growth. Tim is honest and only has good intentions to help businesses grow. Scalus is an asset to our business and we find comfort knowing we have support. Tim responds quickly and works with us really well to ensure our customer facing presence looks and feels like BIBA."
"If you're looking for a web team that truly listens and collaborates, we can't recommend Tim highly enough. ... He has transformed what could have been just a basic informational site into a story driven experience that captures our business culture."
"Scaulus has been such a valuable part of growing our business. Their team brings a genuinely fresh and creative approach, introducing new strategies and techniques that have helped us reach new clients and strengthen the way we operate."
"It was a pleasure working with Tim and the Scalus team. They're the best at what they do, creating website and bringing traffic through. Tim always there working for our best interest."
"I cannot rate Tim highly enough ! goes above and beyond and has a great creative vision. attention to detail and delivers ahead of time every time. Highly recommend."
"Tim built the website of the law firm I work at, and the service was second to none. Our client intake has increased due to this and we recommend his services to anyone that is looking to improve and modernise their digital appearance."
"I have been working with Tim for a month now and his service has been fantastic. He has gone above and beyond to make sure my website looks amazing and works perfectly. There are many components to it and he has met every challenge with speed and skill."
"Tim from Scalus has gone above and beyond what you'd expect. He's not just doing the work, he's genuinely helped me develop serious strategies to get my business the advertising it needs to bring in new clients."
"Tim is the consumate professional. Helpful no matter the size or complexity of the project ... his work has allowed me to scale my presence and lead confidently in the world of media with my little old Bookkeeping business."
"Been working with Tim for a few months now and he hasn't just transformed my business but helped transform my mindset, along with that he has helped me build a stunning website! Couldn't be happier!!"
"Working with Tim and his team has been an absolute pleasure. ... Tim consistently exceeds expectations, delivering excellence with a meticulous attention to detail, creativity, and a highly professional demeanor."
"Tim is a huge asset to the work our Agency delivers to our clients. His professionalism and end product is second to none. We continue to use Tim as the feedback from his work is always fantastic!!"
"We had a new website built by Tim at Scalus in Warrandyte and we are really happy with it. We turn up on Google for our work now and that has made a real difference. Tim set us up for AI Search too, so we get found in ChatGPT and not just Google. The enquiries have picked up since the website went live. He did the SEO as well and it is doing exactly what he said it would. The whole thing was turned around fast and I never had to chase him. Easy to deal with from start to finish and nothing was ever a problem. You get someone local who actually answers the phone, not an agency. The website design makes us look like a proper business. It looks just as good on a phone as it does on a computer. If you need a website in Warrandyte, I would give Scalus a call."
"Loved working with Tim. Professional, and warm, listened to what i was looking for and checked in to make sure i was happy. You get someone local who actually answers the phone. Happy to recommend Tim to anyone in Warrandyte looking for a website."
"Scalus is an absolute must for our growth. Tim is honest and only has good intentions to help businesses grow. Scalus is an asset to our business and we find comfort knowing we have support. Tim responds quickly and works with us really well to ensure our customer facing presence looks and feels like BIBA."
"If you're looking for a web team that truly listens and collaborates, we can't recommend Tim highly enough. ... He has transformed what could have been just a basic informational site into a story driven experience that captures our business culture."
"Scaulus has been such a valuable part of growing our business. Their team brings a genuinely fresh and creative approach, introducing new strategies and techniques that have helped us reach new clients and strengthen the way we operate."
"It was a pleasure working with Tim and the Scalus team. They're the best at what they do, creating website and bringing traffic through. Tim always there working for our best interest."
"I cannot rate Tim highly enough ! goes above and beyond and has a great creative vision. attention to detail and delivers ahead of time every time. Highly recommend."
"Tim built the website of the law firm I work at, and the service was second to none. Our client intake has increased due to this and we recommend his services to anyone that is looking to improve and modernise their digital appearance."
"I have been working with Tim for a month now and his service has been fantastic. He has gone above and beyond to make sure my website looks amazing and works perfectly. There are many components to it and he has met every challenge with speed and skill."
"Tim from Scalus has gone above and beyond what you'd expect. He's not just doing the work, he's genuinely helped me develop serious strategies to get my business the advertising it needs to bring in new clients."
"Tim is the consumate professional. Helpful no matter the size or complexity of the project ... his work has allowed me to scale my presence and lead confidently in the world of media with my little old Bookkeeping business."
"Been working with Tim for a few months now and he hasn't just transformed my business but helped transform my mindset, along with that he has helped me build a stunning website! Couldn't be happier!!"
"Working with Tim and his team has been an absolute pleasure. ... Tim consistently exceeds expectations, delivering excellence with a meticulous attention to detail, creativity, and a highly professional demeanor."
"Tim is a huge asset to the work our Agency delivers to our clients. His professionalism and end product is second to none. We continue to use Tim as the feedback from his work is always fantastic!!"
Builders, trades, studios, salons and health clinics. Every site below is live and working matched to each client's brand and wired to capture leads. Tap any one to see how I built it.






The eight here are a few of the 22 businesses I build for and look after every month, from electricians and roofers to dentists, bookkeepers and wellness studios.

A 28 page site for a local sparky, with a three step quote form on the hero and a job feed pulling real completed work from their job management system.

An Australian flagpole and goal post manufacturer moved off a dated platform onto its own site, with the full range and enquiry capture.

A full site with a dual building & landscaping quote flow, plus a live recent jobs feed wired straight into their job management system.

A sharp corporate site with capability statement, project showcase, tender ready enquiry funnel and a live visitor dashboard.

A dark, gallery style studio site with a custom quote request flow, instant SMS follow up, online booking and search led blog guides.

A serene website for Victoria's first Japanese inspired head spa, with treatment, gift card and academy sections and online booking woven throughout.

A multi page site for a Credentialled Diabetes Educator, with a page per clinic, online booking and plain English guides.

A warm, plain language legal site with client intake, consultation booking and a court form system behind it.
It's a system.
It's a marketing tool.
It's whatever you need it to be.
Every enquiry, call and booking lands in one place, in your Scalus app.
It turns visitors into enquiries, and happy customers into Google reviews.
Quotes, bookings, invoices, a live job feed. I build it around how you work.
With automations behind it, your website works like your own business app.
JoshOwner, 22 Electrical Works · Croydon Hills
MichaelOwner, Glow Electrical · Ringwood East
IdahAdministrator, Eden Building & Landscaping · Greensborough
Josh runs a small licensed electrical team out of Melbourne's east. I moved him off a rented platform onto a real 28 page website on his own domain, where the proof of the work comes straight out of the system he already runs the business on.
22electricalworks.com.au
A client rings about a job for tomorrow. Your line answers, takes their details and the job, and sends it straight to you.
An SMS goes straight back to them automatically, so the job is yours before they message anyone else.
You never have to use your phone to answer marketing calls again.
Every screen here is a client site I built and still look after, scrolling the way somebody reads it. None of it is a mockup. Open any one of them and it is running today.
22electricalworks.com.au
"He got the website up and I'm stoked with it."
Every part below comes with every Scalus plan. Watch each one do its job.
Website forms, missed calls, texts, website chat and social messages, together in one inbox on your phone and desktop, shared with your team.
After every job, a friendly text asks for a review. One tap takes them straight to your Google page.
When you cannot pick up, the caller still gets looked after. Their message is written up and waiting for you in the morning.
Every site is built to the Scalus search standard and keeps being tuned, so Google and AI search tools can read it and recommend your business. The example above is an illustration. No one can promise a ranking or a mention.
Every Scalus site runs on one platform. When the standard gets better, your site gets it too, with nothing for you to do.
Message Tim in the Scalus app whenever something needs changing. Local support from the person who built your system.
Service pages, suburb pages, reviews and guides, so you can show up for the searches your customers make.
Illustrative examples. Names, numbers and messages are made up to show how each part works.
Finish a job and take a few photos. Send them in the Scalus app, on your phone or the computer. I put them on your website and reply when they are live.
On the phone
On the computer



Illustrative photos. The app on each screen is the real one.
Your website keeps getting better
Every Scalus site runs on one platform, so when the standard improves, every site gets the improvement. No upgrade fee, and nothing for you to do.
The sign in screen now lets you choose how long you stay signed in on a device, and booking a paid Scalus Learn session or a paid shoot now asks for a fresh code first.
As part of ongoing security concerns after recent events, where big banks found automated assistants acting inside customer accounts, signing in to the Scalus app now takes a code on your mobile and a code on your email. The biggest changes in the app now need a fresh code, and the business owner is emailed straight away when one is made.
Your customers, leads and enquiries are easier to deal with when they are all in one place. The Scalus app now has a Contacts list that holds every one of them in a list you can search. You can also now book a 20 minute video call with us from the app. Messages that ask you to open something in the app now show you where to tap, and admin texts from us such as sign in codes arrive under the name Scalus.
The Enquiries page in the app is now a board for 16 clients. It has stages that fit your business, and opening a card shows what the customer sent. Your Google review screen now shows who left you a review. Your Performance page now shows your own Google Analytics figures and puts your visitors on a live map of Victoria.
Every business now has a Photos item in the Scalus app. It holds the shoots we have done for you, and you can look through them and download them on a computer or a phone. Today also brings an easier way to email a quote or invoice, one sheet for choosing your reminders, a chat that is easier to read on a phone, and a label on every enquiry that shows where it came from.
Every Google review text we send for you now opens a page with five stars. A customer who picks 4 or 5 goes straight to the Google review box. A customer who picks 1 to 3 comes to you first by email, and Google is still one tap away for them. You can also now switch the review system on yourself from the menu in the Scalus app.
Invoices and quotes in the Scalus app can now fill in a customer from a photo of their business card, or from anyone you have billed before. They can also read every part off a photo of your supplier's quote, and send to up to three emails at once. Three short videos show you how. Signing in now starts with your mobile, and the Inbox lets you mark a conversation read or unread or archive it.
Google review requests now run from your own number in your Scalus app. After every finished job, your customer gets a text with a link straight to your Google review page. Gentle follow ups go out as well, and a screen shows who was asked and who tapped through. Quotes now start with your customer's details, and new team members pick their own name and details the first time they sign in.
Every client now has an Updates screen in the Scalus app. It shows the version of Scalus OS you are on. It also shows the update in progress, and every update before it.
Google keeps a report for each site of the problems it finds when it reads the pages. Today we went through that report for every client site. Listing errors were fixed the same day. On some sites that meant sending old page addresses on to a current page. On others it meant correcting the business details Google reads.
Before today, the list of invoices and quotes in the app did not show every one you had made, and once there were enough, the oldest could be dropped without warning. You can now build invoices and quotes line by line in the app, see every one you have made, and edit any of them. When you press Create, the PDF opens on your phone and a copy is emailed to you. Nothing is sent to your customer until you press Send.
Your app now has a Performance tab. It shows your site visits, your enquiries and how often Google shows your business. The app menu now tidies itself once your website is live. The forms and chat on every client site also now block more kinds of sales pitches, and keep a private copy of everything they block, so a real customer is never lost.
The Invoice Generator in the Scalus app now opens the easy way. You add your files and photos, type your notes and one price, and your invoice or quote comes back as one PDF with everything in it. An invoice can no longer go out without bank details on it. The app menu also now puts Ask for a change first, in colour, with your business tools grouped underneath.
Setting up with us used to mean a form of 54 questions. It is now down to the basics and takes about two minutes, and anything you already answered is kept. The app also has a new look on phone and web, a line that marks what you have not read, and pointers on your first visit. Every enquiry email from your website now shows the page it came from and when it was sent.
A message that sits unread holds up the job it is about. If something we have sent you in the app has not been seen after a day, you now get a reminder, by text the first couple of times and by email after that. It runs on weekdays in business hours only, and it can be switched off.
A content shoot is where the photos and video for a site come from, and arranging one used to mean messages back and forth to find a time. It is now a button in the app that shows the real free times in the diary. The same release gives search reports a link with the business name in it, and puts the same two reminders on every booking.
A large share of the traffic to any small business website is not people. It is scripts: scrapers copying content, tools probing for weak spots, and fake visitors that make the numbers meaningless. Every Scalus site now checks that a visitor is a real browser before the page loads. People do not notice it. Google, Bing and the AI search crawlers are let straight through.
Search engines and AI assistants keep changing what they want from a page, and a site that was right in July drifts if nobody tends it. Over three days fifteen client sites were scanned and twelve of them were updated. From this release that upkeep is routine: small search fixes are made and published as they are found, without waiting in a queue for approval.
The Scalus app is now in the Google Play store, so a client on an Android phone can install it like any other app in place of opening a web page. On the web, sending a message got faster to the eye: it appears the moment you press send.
Three everyday jobs got easier in the app. Any photo, video, voice note or file in your conversation can be saved to your device with one button. The code that signs you in is shorter. And when a bank card changes, the new one can be entered in the app without a phone call.
Not every business is paid monthly, so not every business wants to be billed monthly. Scalus can now be paid by the week or by the fortnight as well as by the month, for the same plan with nothing taken out. The app also gained a light and a dark look, and a fix for a rare case where two changes saved at the same moment could undo each other.
The app could carry photos. A real job needs more than that: the logo file from your designer, a price list as a PDF, a video from site. Any of those can now be sent in your conversation, and what we send back to you arrives the same way.
The chat on a site used to work from a fixed list of questions and answers, which is fine until a visitor asks something that is not on the list. Every Scalus chat now answers from what it knows about the business, in its own words, so the reply fits the question. Leaving a mobile number for a call back has been cut down to a single line.
A website that is down does not announce it. The owner usually finds out from a customer, sometimes days later. Every live Scalus site is now loaded automatically every thirty minutes, around the clock, and if one stops answering we know within the half hour. The same release adds a notification bell to the app and lets the people on your team sign in as themselves.
The chat on a Scalus site can talk to a visitor at any hour, but a conversation nobody reads is a lost job. When a visitor leaves a real phone number or email address in the chat, the business owner now gets an email with who they are and what they asked. It was running on one site. It is now the standard on every site with the chat.
Until now the app was something a client could be invited to. From this release it is where the whole relationship lives. A new client lands in it the moment they pay, their set up questions are answered inside it, and every existing client now has their own business and their own conversation waiting for them at my.scalus.app.
Agencies send thousands of cold pitches a day through business contact forms, and a website form is the easiest door in. One arrived this week dressed as a new client enquiry, so it reached the inbox looking exactly like real work. Every Scalus form and every Scalus chat now reads what was written before it goes anywhere, and anything plainly selling marketing or search services is held. It never emails you and it never lands in your CRM.
Every Scalus site carries a small line in the footer saying who built it. Across the fleet that line had drifted into eleven different versions, and on several sites only the last word was a link. It is now one mark on every site, with the Scalus logo beside the words, the whole block clickable, and the colour chosen to stay readable on whatever that footer is painted.
The iPhone Duo, Apple's folding phone, puts two screen sizes on the map that no phone had before: one when it is shut and a much wider one when it opens. Every Scalus client site was loaded at both, measured rather than eyeballed, and the checks that run before anything goes live now cover them permanently.
A form carrying several photos could run out of time on the server, tell the sender to try again, and file the same enquiry more than once. Every form now has six times the headroom, the slow steps run side by side, and a repeat send updates the record it already made.
Every form on every Scalus site now ends the same way. The fields fade out and a confirmation fades in where they stood, with a green tick that draws itself, so nobody is left wondering whether their message went through.
The enquiry form on every site was rebuilt as three short steps with a progress bar, so people finish it instead of abandoning a long single page form.
A full audit of every site to find pages that were chasing the same Google search as each other, plus a check of how many pages Google has indexed rather than merely crawled.
Every client site was brought under a single verified Search Console account, so new pages can be submitted to Google automatically instead of waiting to be found.
Every site now answers on exactly one address, its code passes validation with no errors, and browsers are told to treat it as a secure page.
The largest release so far. Every site was rebuilt to be readable and quotable by AI assistants, which is now where a growing share of customers ask for a recommendation before they ever open Google.
When your page gets shared in a text message, on Facebook or in an email, the preview card now shows a real screenshot of that exact page instead of a generic logo.
Each site now describes itself to search engines as a connected set of facts about one business, rather than as a stack of unrelated pages.
The sitemap on sites with a blog or news section now builds itself, so a new article is announced to Google the moment it is published.
The release that turned the search work into a standard applied identically to every site rather than something done page by page.
Sites started describing their own facts in the format Google reads, and every site was connected to Google Search Console so its real performance could be seen.
The start of the search standard. Sitemap, crawler instructions and proper page metadata became a required part of every site rather than an optional extra.
Enquiries started carrying the story of where they came from, so ad spend could be judged against jobs won rather than against clicks.
Sites moved onto hand written code served from the edge, replacing page builder templates, and were built to load fast.
The moment someone enquires, they get an acknowledgement and you get a notification, because the first business to reply usually wins the job.
Each client got a private dashboard showing their enquiries and results as they happen, rather than a report at the end of the month.
Enquiries stopped being emails to be remembered and became records in a system that tracks them through to a job.
The base every Scalus site has been built on since: managed hosting, secure connections, and one system maintained across every client rather than a separate build for each.
The moment someone fills in your form, a warm reply lands on their phone in your voice. Reminders, confirmations and follow ups go out automatically, and real conversations land back in your inbox to take over any time.
Illustrative conversation
After every great job, your system quietly asks for a review at exactly the right moment. Your Google profile grows itself, and your best marketing becomes your happy clients.
Job done. Your system knows when a client has just had a great experience.
A friendly text goes out. One tap takes them straight to your Google review page.
The review lands. More real reviews from your own customers, which helps the next client trust you.

"Absolutely seamless from the first text to the finished job. Booked everything from my phone. Highly recommend!"
"So easy to deal with, they confirmed everything by SMS and even reminded me the day before. Five stars."
"Turned up when they said, did exactly what they quoted, and the follow up text made it easy to book the next job. Couldn't fault them."
Illustrative reviews and search result
20 minutes, on your actual business. See exactly what your system would capture and automate.
Day 1Website, automations and the review engine, designed, written and wired by me.
Days 2 and 3Launch call, keys handed over, system running. Ongoing local support from then on.
Day 4No agency, no call centre, no account manager you never meet. I build your website and I am the person who answers when you need something changed. A small team of contractors helps me behind the scenes.
Tim McCartney · Founder, Scalus · Est. 2024
I started Scalus after more than 15 years in professional video production. I kept making videos for clients that never reached their potential, because there was nowhere solid to put them. No proper website, nothing published, so good work quietly disappeared. So now I build the website first. Get that foundation right, and content and advertising finally have somewhere to land.
One plan, one price. The website built, hosted, kept live and looked after, for $225 a month. No lock in contract, no setup fees, and the price includes GST. Your business phone number and text messages are billed at the prices on our phone system page, and you can use your own domain or take Scalus Domain at $10 a month.
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Put your address in and nine public tools read your site: what Google sees, whether your structured data holds up, and whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot can read and quote you. You get the score and the fix list.
Example report. Yours takes about 30 seconds.
Check my websiteSee the system running on your business in person or on a video call. Melbourne only.