Minnesota
Built in the Twin Cities,
for businesses across Minnesota.
Hewstone designs smart websites, builds AI automations, and writes custom software for local businesses that sell a quoted service. Founder-led out of the north metro, working across the whole state. Websites from $1,000, and every number is on the page before you ask for it.
What we build
Websites, automations, and custom software.
Most businesses buy one and stop there, which is fine. The site is the front door, the automations cover the moments the front desk cannot, and the software is for the part of the week no product on the market fits.
A Minnesota shop
Built by the person you talk to.
Hewstone is founder-led by Thomas Cannaday, based in the Twin Cities area. When you book a call, that is who answers: the same person who designs and builds the thing. No account managers, no offshore hand-offs, no ticket queue.
Local matters more than it sounds like it should. A Minnesota business runs on a calendar somebody from out of state has to be told about: the spring rush, storm season, the January stretch where the phone goes quiet. Whoever builds your front office should already know what those months do to it.
Where we work
Most of the work is in the Twin Cities metro, from Anoka and Blaine down through Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the south suburbs. Beyond that: St. Cloud, Rochester, Duluth, Mankato, and the rest of the state. Work outside Minnesota happens too, and runs identically, because none of it depends on being in the room.
In practice
Two Minnesota clients, in service.
Trueballast Financial, a business-purpose lending brokerage in Farmington: naming, brand, logo, and the full site, including the two-path flow that sorts an inquiry before it ever reaches a human. Green Team, an owner-operated carpet, air duct and dryer vent cleaning company in Champlin: 53 pages, instant price estimators, and a real page with its own map for each of the 43 towns in their search footprint, the 20 they cover routinely and 23 more the pages tell you plainly they do not. Both live and in service. Everything else in the portfolio is concept and spec work, labeled honestly as such, on the work page.
Pricing
Published, and fixed before we start.
Websites run $1,000 to $5,000 to build plus a monthly from $100. Automations price per piece, from $1,000 setup and $200 a month. Custom software is quoted between $5,000 to $15,000 at a fixed price before anyone starts. Every one of those numbers is on the pricing page rather than behind a call.
FAQ
How much does a website cost for a Minnesota business?
Three builds: Starter at $1,000 setup, Custom at $3,000 designed from scratch with a chat agent included, and Signature at $5,000 with a custom motion homepage. Each carries a monthly of $100 to $300 covering hosting, security, backups, and changes. The full price list is on the pricing page, including the automations and the software work.
What kinds of businesses do you work with?
Local businesses that sell a quoted service, where a customer calls or fills in a form and then gets a price. That covers trades and home services, and equally law firms, accountants, med spas, dentists, gyms, lenders, and landscapers. Our two paying clients are a business-purpose lending brokerage and a carpet and duct cleaning company, which is a fair indication of the range.
Do you only work with companies in the Twin Cities?
No. Hewstone is based in the north metro and works across Minnesota: the Twin Cities, St. Cloud, Rochester, Duluth, and everywhere between, plus into Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas. Every build runs the same way wherever you are, on real calls with the founder rather than through a ticket queue.
Do I own what you build?
Yes. The site, the domain, the workflows, the source code, and the accounts they run in. No annual contract, and if you ever leave, it goes with you rather than being switched off.
I already have a website. Is that a problem?
Not at all, and most projects start exactly there. We look at what is working, keep what deserves keeping, and rebuild the rest. One-off fix-my-site jobs are welcome too. If your current site is genuinely fine, you will be told that.
Can you promise me a spot on the first page of Google?
No, and be careful with anyone local who says yes. What gets built is the groundwork: a page for every service and area, clean fast markup, correct local listings, and a site people stay on. What moves rankings after that is links and reviews, which come out of real relationships rather than out of a website.
Contact
Let's talk.
Thirty minutes is enough to tell whether this is a fit. If what you have now is genuinely fine, you will hear that too.