About Us
We are a dynamic team of thinkers and builders dedicated to propelling your online presence forward.
Kanopi Studios was inspired by a love of treehouses. After all, treehouses are amazing works of craftsmanship and creativity that exist within the larger context of their surroundings. We’ve built a web agency upon that same foundation: pairing creative solutions with sustainable and strong architecture, while keeping the client’s entire ecosystem in mind. Read more about the origin of our name.
Why choose Kanopi?
Woman-run & inclusive
Anne started Kanopi in 2013 with her sister Jill. We’ve grown into a world-class website strategy, design, development, and support agency with 70+ employees. Kanopi is a certified Canadian Women Business Enterprise (WBE) as well as one of the top 100 woman-owned web design agencies on Clutch.
We’re also more inclusive than most tech agencies, and we’re always striving to do even better. Some stats as of July 2025:
- 100% of executive leadership, 55% of senior leadership, and 62% of managers of people are female or non-binary
- 23% of managers of people are persons of color
- 53% of employees are female or non-binary
- 56% of employees are over the age of 40
- 25% of employees are persons of color
- 10% of employees are people who are disabled
- 14% of employees identify as LGBTQ+
- 2% served in the military
We design, build & support websites
We can support your site at any stage of its lifecycle.
Websites are organic and need to evolve with your business, so we’ll help you grow your brand confidently at any stage of your site’s lifecycle. Need a new site from scratch? We can do that. Need help for just one portion of your site? No problem. Need support post-launch? We do that too.
We take a holistic and adaptive approach, breaking tasks down into manageable pieces in order to make incremental and steady progress. This allows us to pivot quickly as priorities change without wasting time or money.
Mission-focused clients
Our clients are good for people and the planet.
We strive to have a positive impact in the world, so our clients are almost exclusively organizations committed to changing the world for the better. This means we’re heavily concentrated in nonprofit work, higher education, healthcare and socially responsible corporate clients.
We serve the USA and Canada
Serving six time zones across North America, eh?
From Hawaii to Newfoundland, all our staff and clients are based in the USA and Canada. We work to match up our staff to be in or near your time zone for easier communication, so we never outsource over oceans.
Our support is unmatched
You’ll get the White Glove treatment.
Many agencies offer support after launch, but no one does it quite like Kanopi. We go beyond standard bug fixes and security updates by providing strategy, design, and development support that creates huge impacts for clients. These smaller projects can be anything from a specific accessibility need, to a landing page design that converts, to a feature that needs developing.
Another rarity? We’re experts at refining and enhancing other people’s code. It’s tough to find an agency that will take on a site built by someone else, but we’ve got you covered.
Accessibility is imperative
The internet should be accessible to all. Period.
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we bake accessibility practices into every step of our process, from initial design through launch. Our staff also give frequent presentations and write about accessibility and inclusion.
Every site we build or support is AA WCAG compliant, so you can be sure your site will comply with industry standards for accessibility. We’ve even built one client site to be AAA compliant.
Design matters
Supporting humans on both sides of the screen.
Design is critical to our practice. We never use templates and we don’t succumb to trends. Our designs are informed by data; every project begins with strategy work that includes user research, content auditing, persona creation, and more — all so we can understand your users’ needs and how to best align them with your business goals.
We also never forget that it’s real humans using your site, which is why it’s essential to make your content engaging, visually appealing, and easy to comprehend. Our designs are purposeful as we bring your brand vision to life.
We give back
We donate time, knowledge, and money.
We allocate each Kanopi employee up to four hours per month to contribute toward the Drupal and/or WordPress communities, or mentor in another capacity during work hours. If employees contribute in their spare time, we have a program to reward that too.
We are also a founding sponsor for Discover Drupal, the Drupal Association’s initiative to unlock opportunities for people who have been underrepresented in Drupal.
We also provide a financial donation every year to Code 2040 in addition to other charitable organizations.
Our work wins awards.
Our expertise.
Our team of experts frequently shares their knowledge on content strategy, accessibility, design, and development. In 2023 alone, Kanopians spoke at 18 conferences. Additionally, we’ve made over 2,800 commits to Drupal core and contributed modules, as well as WordPress Trac commits, themes, and plugins.
Our clients love us.
As an organization whose website and technical needs are great, we were very cautious and thorough in finding the best partnership for us. Since working with Kanopi, we have received customer service that is honest and transparent while also being persistent to find a solution to the many tasks brought before them. With 150+ sites that’s no small task, but we believe because of this partnership, our online presence will continue to grow.
It was a wonderful phase of discovery, collaboration, and partnership. We wanted somebody that was going to be there to help us learn and work together, and not just throw requirements over the fence. Kanopi helped us to help ourselves, and I think that forms the best consulting relationships.
From the start, we have been very impressed with Kanopi’s creativity. The project moved very well under Timothy’s and Miriam’s guidance. They’ve been flexible and understanding as we hit roadblocks in our internal processes and decision-making. Another key element was how thorough and inclusive they were during our Discovery Process, which led to other departments in our organization feeling connected from day one. Overall, this has been a fantastic experience!
“We’re able to better serve our community because of the work Kanopi has done.”
Kanopi has helped us with countless projects, bringing effective communication and project management skills, deep technical knowledge, as well as an imaginative and brilliant creative team. More than two years on in our collaboration, we could not be more pleased with our decision to engage Kanopi.