M9

What M9 does

M9 Corporation is a privately held, Winnipeg-based digital agency founded in 2001 (originally as CyberCom Graphics Design) that provides custom website design, managed hosting, SEO, and digital marketing services to small and medium businesses across Canada and the United States. The company operates through three branded divisions — M9 Web Design, M9 Marketing, and M9 Hosting — under a single corporate umbrella, and offers an analytics subscription branded M9 Advantage. Its core technology is a proprietary internal website construction platform supplemented by Custom PHP programming, which M9 positions as an alternative to template-based DIY website builders.

The company's revenue model is mixed: one-time project fees for website design and development, complemented by recurring subscription revenue from managed hosting (starting at ~$20/month), SEO services (starting at $380/month), and analytics/reporting (~$59/month). Go-to-market is consultative and sales-led, with no-obligation initial meetings, phone-based engagement, and online quote-request forms. M9 reports 200+ websites built over its history, hundreds of clients, 90%+ client retention over 20+ years, and 95% customer satisfaction. The named leadership team comprises four individuals — President Roger Syntak, Creative Director Bo Guan, Operations Manager Jeff Bell, and Content Manager Esther Corriveau-Dorge — within a stated 11-50 employee range. The company has no external investors, no parent entity, and no disclosed funding history.

Name

M9

Legal name

M9 Corporation

Website

https://m9corp.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

M9 Corporation is a Winnipeg-based digital agency that designs, hosts, and markets custom websites for small and medium businesses across Canada and the United States, using proprietary internal site-building software and offering recurring SEO and hosting services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Web Design and Digital Marketing Services

NAICS

Advertising Agencies (541810), Graphic Design Services (541430), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHDAEAGAK

Web Content Management (WCM) & Experience Platforms (Content Services)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Enterprise Platforms & Databases/Enterprise Content Management (ECM) & Document Management

Keywords

• Web design services
• Web hosting services
• Digital marketing services
• Search engine optimization
• Custom web development

Headquarters

HQ city

Winnipeg

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Website Design and Development: Custom website design, development, and support services provided as one-time project-based work. Includes branding, custom CMS implementation, and web applications.
2. Website Hosting Services: Professional managed business-grade hosting on dedicated servers with cPanel access. Offered at multiple tiers starting around $20-30/month with 1-year contracts. Includes domain management and email hosting.
3. SEO and Digital Marketing Services: Organic SEO search optimization services including keyword reports, meta descriptions, title tags, content revisions, and monthly articles. Pricing starts at $380/month with comprehensive monthly plans.
4. M9 Advantage (Analytics and Reporting): Monthly analytic and traffic reporting services including Google Analytics, social media reports, keyword ranking reports, and website audits. Priced at $59/month.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

M9 is a Winnipeg-based digital agency that designs, builds, hosts, and markets websites for small and medium-sized businesses. The firm bundles custom website design, graphic and desktop publishing, digital/internet marketing (including SEO), and managed hosting under one engagement. Founded in 2001, it sells its services primarily to local SMB clients seeking an end-to-end web presence partner.

Product overview

M9 Corporation operates as a multi-service digital agency offering a unified portfolio of website design, development, hosting, and marketing services. The core offering is M9 Web Design, which provides custom website design and development using proprietary internal software rather than template-based solutions. This core is complemented by three main service divisions: M9 Marketing (encompassing Digital Marketing, SEO Starter Package, and M9 Advantage reporting) and M9 Hosting (managed hosting on dedicated servers with cPanel). The company also offers Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing as an integrated branding service. Services are designed to work together from concept through completion, with clients able to engage individual services or the full suite.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• M9 Web Design: Website design and development division specializing in designing, developing, creating and supporting internet websites for clients.
• M9 Marketing
• M9 Hosting
• M9 Advantage

Products and services

• M9 Web Design

Quantifiable outcome

• 90%+ client retention rate over 20+ years of operation
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Vendasta: Saskatoon-based digital services platform serving SMBs and the agencies that serve them. Closest comparable to M9 as a fellow Canadian SMB-focused digital services company with both agency delivery and platform tooling components.
• Web.com: SMB-focused website design, hosting, and marketing services provider offering a similar concept-to-completion service stack as M9 with comparable pricing and target customer.
• Hibu: SMB-focused digital marketing agency offering websites, hosting, SEO, and social media services—closely mirroring M9's full-service web design + hosting + digital marketing stack for small businesses.

Broad incumbents

• GoDaddy: Largest SMB-focused web presence provider offering DIY website builder, hosting, and marketing services. Competes with M9 in hosting and basic websites but does not offer the high-touch custom design services M9 provides.
• Bluehost: Web hosting provider competing in M9's hosting segment with similar SMB-targeting positioning and shared infrastructure features like cPanel, representing a price-competitive alternative for M9's hosting clients.
• Squarespace: Premium DIY website builder targeting SMBs and creators. Represents the same template-based competitive pressure cited in M9's own marketing content as the alternative SMBs consider.
• Wix: DIY website builder platform used by SMBs to build their own sites. M9 explicitly cites Wix-style platforms as its primary competitive threat at the lower end of the market in its own blog content.
• Thryv: SMB end-to-end marketing and business management platform. Competes in the same SMB digital marketing and online presence category as M9 with broader software suite.
• HubSpot: While more enterprise-oriented, HubSpot's Marketing Hub Starter and CMS Hub compete for SMB marketing and web budgets that might otherwise flow to M9's SEO and digital marketing services.
• Constant Contact: Digital marketing platform for SMBs with strong position in email marketing, social, and basic website services that overlap with parts of M9's offering, especially SEO and email marketing services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/m9corp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about M9