About BrandCurb
We spent a decade helping small businesses grow. Then we realized growth wasn't their real problem.
The real problem was time. Every owner we worked with was stuck doing the same things over and over — answering the same questions, sending the same follow-ups, chasing the same invoices. BrandCurb exists to take that work off the plate for good.
13 yrs
In business
500+
Clients served
14 hrs
Saved per week, avg.
< 2 wks
Avg. time to live
Alwyn Vintinner
Founder & CEO · Toronto, ON
The founder
"Every business I visited had the same problem dressed up differently."
Alwyn Vintinner started BrandCurb in 2013 after working with small business owners across Toronto who were getting buried under operational work that had nothing to do with what they were actually good at. The restaurant owner answering the same five questions a hundred times a week. The real estate agent manually copying leads between three tools. The trades contractor who lost a $12,000 job because a follow-up fell through the cracks.
The first decade was digital marketing — websites, SEO, paid ads. It helped. But when the AI inflection point arrived in 2022, it became obvious that marketing was never really the leverage point. The leverage was in the hour-by-hour work happening inside the business.
In 2023, BrandCurb went all-in on custom AI development. Not platforms. Not subscriptions. Custom-built tools, wired directly into the software each client already uses, solving the exact workflow costing them the most time each week.
Our story
Thirteen years. One throughline.
Started as a digital marketing agency
Alwyn founded BrandCurb in Toronto to help local small businesses get online and grow. The first decade was traditional: websites, SEO, ad campaigns.
Noticed the real bottleneck
After six years with the same clients, the pattern was obvious: marketing could bring leads in, but owners were drowning in admin. Leads going cold. Follow-ups missed. Invoices delayed. No tool was helping them keep up.
First automation builds
Before ChatGPT was a household name, we started quietly wiring together automations for clients: lead routing, appointment sequences, invoice triggers. The time savings shocked everyone, including us.
Went all-in on AI
The LLM breakthrough made custom AI assistants viable for any budget. We pivoted fully — from digital marketing to custom AI development — and rebuilt the entire practice around one question: what's eating your week?
500+ businesses automated
We work with small businesses across Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia. Every client gets a custom-built solution, not a template. Most go live in under two weeks.
What we believe
Opinions we're willing to argue for.
These aren't values written for a slide deck. They're decisions that show up in every build.
AI should be invisible
The best automation is the one your team forgets is running. We build tools that slot into your existing software — not platforms that require new habits, training, and ongoing babysitting.
Small businesses deserve the same tools as enterprise
Fortune 500 companies have been automating operations for decades. The technology is no longer what separates them from a 10-person shop. The gap is access. We close that gap.
Affordable doesn't mean generic
Every business runs differently. A restaurant's follow-up workflow is not the same as a law firm's — and a copy-paste tool pretending otherwise wastes everyone's time. We build for your specific situation, not a category.
Your data is yours. Full stop.
We build PIPEDA-compliant by default. Client data doesn't train anyone's models, doesn't leave your environment without your permission, and is deleted when you ask. No exceptions.
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Work with us
Tell us what's eating your week. We'll handle it.
Book a free 30-minute call. We'll look at your specific workflows, identify your highest-ROI automation opportunities, and give you a realistic timeline and cost estimate. No slides, no pressure, no commitment.