Dillon Kovljenic
Co-Founder of Schkovl. His work focuses on local search, AI-search visibility, business automation and digital infrastructure for small businesses.
Company
About Schkovl
Schkovl is a Toronto/GTA digital agency. Based in Toronto, serving businesses across Canada and the United States. We build the operational and technical infrastructure that gets a business found, trusted, and running efficiently — Digital Growth Services, Website Design & Development, SEO & Answer Engine Optimization, and Custom App & Platform Development — on the same underlying method: find what's actually broken before you build or spend anything to fix it.
Our founders
Calder Schantz
Co-Founder of Schkovl. Graphic and branding designer based in Toronto.
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Each page below explains one part of how Schkovl works, drawn from what is already published across the site — the method, the engagement sequence, the ownership position, the evidence rules, who the work is for, and the engineering principles behind it.
The Gap Analysis
What the diagnostic actually inspects, the evidence it produces, how findings get ordered, and the limits of the method.
How engagements run
The sequence from intake form to deployed system, the four build stages, and where the written agreement takes over.
Deliverable ownership
The published ownership position, the two stated exceptions, portfolio rights, and what no lock-in means in practice.
Evidence and measurement
What counts as proof, what an audit score is not, how corrections are handled, and what we decline to publish.
Who we serve
Where we operate, the four symptoms clients arrive with, the shapes an engagement takes, and what we turn down.
Technical principles
Rendering, production verification, standard tooling, and the permission limits placed on agentic systems.
What we do
- Digital Growth Services — Google Business Profile, listings, review and posting automation
- Website Design & Development — custom websites and high-conversion landing pages
- SEO & Answer Engine Optimization — technical SEO, local SEO and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
- Custom App & Platform Development — custom software, web platforms and native apps
- AI automation within Custom App & Platform Development, built with least-privilege access and human approval gates
Explore our SEO and Answer Engine Optimization service for Toronto businesses to see the search-specific Gap Analysis, technical SEO proof and AEO deliverables.
How we work
Architecture before spend
Every engagement starts with a Gap Analysis — we audit what's actually broken before recommending a build, a rewrite, or a marketing push. If the fix turns out to be operational rather than technical, we say so instead of selling a build.
You own what we build
Once a project is paid in full, you own the custom code and deliverables outright. The only things that stay ours are our own pre-existing internal tooling and any third-party or open-source components — never your build.
No platform lock-in
We build on open, standard tooling you can hand to any other team afterward — not a proprietary framework that only we can maintain.
Measured, not asserted
When we claim a result, we show the method and dates. Our NorthGuard case study — previously reported scores of 35/100 and 98/100 on the same technical SEO audit, re-run against the live site — is the pattern we hold every engagement to. The audit files and tool version are not archived for republication; this is not presented as a single-variable result. A Schkovl co-founder holds a partner stake in NorthGuard Window Film, so this is not an arms-length client relationship; the full disclosure is on the case-studies page.
Proof, not claims
We'd rather show one real, checkable method than list ten capabilities. NorthGuard Window Film's previously reported technical SEO audit scores were 35/100 on July 9, 2026 and 98/100 on August 10, 2026 — same test suite, run twice against the live site. The audit files and tool version are not archived for republication. This is not presented as a single-variable result. (Disclosure: a Schkovl co-founder holds a partner stake in NorthGuard Window Film.)
- Previously reported audit scores, Jul and Aug 2026
- 35/100; 98/100
- Routes restored to distinct HTML
- 19
Last reviewed
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