Secondary Character

Secondary Character Studios

You bring the idea.
I’ll build the rest.

Websites and small workflow tools for people who have an idea and no one to build it with. Most projects ship in two weeks. Built with you, not for you.

Alex Somerville
Alex Somerville

Founder · Toronto

I run this. I’ll be the one you talk to. No account managers, no handoffs.

What I make

01

Web presence

Sites and progressive web apps that look like you and work hard for you. From a single brand page to richer builds with booking, intake, or content built in.

02

Workflow tools

Small, custom automation for your inbox, your scheduling, your day, built to fit how you actually work.

Recent work

alexsomerville.com, Toronto voice actor brand site

Voice Actor Brand Site

Alex Somerville, Voice Actor

Toronto VO talent: commercial, video games, animation, motion capture. I built it for myself before I built it for anyone else, which is also where SCS started.

elanadunkelman.co, Toronto actor multi-room showcase site

Actor Portfolio Site

Elana Dunkelman, Actor & Voice

Toronto actor whose career spans film & TV, video games, animation, and writing: Fenyx in Immortals Fenyx Rising, Ready or Not, Hotel Transylvania. Multi-room showcase so casting finds the right read no matter which medium they came for.

craigburnatowski.com, voice artist, actor, and musician

Voice / Acting / Music

Craig Burnatowski

Multi-format performer with a marquee role: Albert Wesker in Resident Evil 4 Remake, returning as Zeno in RE: Requiem. The site leads with the hook and lets the breadth (six albums, a Guinness Record, twenty years of credits) pay it off below the fold.

What it costs

  • Brand site

    from $1,500

    A site you own: fast, mobile-first, on-brand. Homepage and a few supporting pages. About a week. 30-day fix window included; after that, you just email me when you need a change.

  • Full build

    from $3,000

    Bigger sites, online booking, content you can update yourself, or a custom internal tool. Whatever fits the job. Two to three weeks.

  • Ongoing Support

    from $300/mo

    For Full build and workflow clients who want active iteration after launch: new features, tooling help, content. Like having a small studio on call. Most Brand site clients don’t need this.

Newer in the industry and these numbers feel out of reach? Reach out anyway. Smaller starter projects and payment plans are both on the table — I’d rather scope something that fits than have you talk yourself out of it.

Final number depends on what you actually need. I’ll tell you before we start, not after.

What you actually get

It’s yours.

The code, the content, the domain: yours from launch. Yours to modify, host elsewhere, or take to another developer. Nothing gets redesigned, deprecated, or paywalled out from under you.

Where it starts

Your conversation with Anton is just the beginning.

This is Anton, an AI assistant Alex built, running on his own server. Tell him what you’re trying to make. When he’s heard enough to brief Alex, he’ll send the conversation along.

Transcript · live

Online

  1. Anton

    Hey — I’m Anton. Alex built me to do first-pass intakes so by the time he hops in, he already understands what you’re working on. What are you trying to make? (If you’d rather skip me and email him directly: hello@secondarycharacter.studio.)