Finally! Web developers that understand agencies.

Gated Shores Interactive is a web development outsourcing company that specializes in agency work. We give agencies the ability to instantly scale both their production capacity and technology expertise. Our Founders are senior agency professionals that created this company to deliver the following:

Attention football fans! The hottest player website in the world is Andreas Hinkel. Designed by the incredible Media Stuttgart agency, this site represents the most impressive collection of JavaScript animations we've ever seen. It is truly a master piece of web programming!

The level of Javascript programming here is top-grade, but expensive. Using Javascript delivers lightening load times and for SEO, it's is a relative catch basin. However, we're in the business of saving agencies money first and presenting production options is core to our service.
Programming this site in Flash would likely reduce production time by at least 30% and GSI Flash developers are only $46/hr. This site is gorgeous! With GSI, any agency can afford to do this.
We love discovering new music on the web and finding The Skyline was a double bonus because both the music and the site are Sick! Designed by ultra-hot UK agency, Zaum & Brown, fans are treated to a truly unique band experience through a mixture of full-screen Flash video and cool HTML/CSS overlays.
The most time-consuming and costly component of this incredible site is the video optimization. By utilizing our team in Hong Kong to deliver the core framework, GSI would have easily reduced the overall production costs by 35% versus local developers. The GSI rate for HTML/CSS developers is just $36/hr!
1. Profitable Production

Agencies outsource production to Gated Shores Interactive because we help them manage costs and drive profitability. Our clients keep their best people on their most important projects and leave the rest to us. Our resource model delivers both the right expertise and the right cost for agency projects.

  1. Right-sourcing – Local, nearshore or offshore... we deliver whatever resource makes the most sense for you on a project-by-project basis.
  2. Fully-managed services – From business analysis to writing the functional spec and to project management, we make production as simple as a phone call. Everything but the creative… that’s your (only) job!
2. Agency Expertise

Effective digital marketing solutions require a rare combination of strategy, creative and software development expertise. We are agency pros and work effortlessly between creative, production and technology balancing campaign objectives with an appropriate level of technology investment.

Traditional contract resources are failing:

  1. Freelancers are becoming increasingly more expensive and provide temporary solutions at best.
  2. Software Development Companies are not structured to cope with the free-flowing nature of our industry resulting in very expensive solutions.
3. Trusted Production Partner

As business process outsourcing (BPO) matures in our industry, having a trusted production partner that fits within your team as if they were your own will be essential. We work as an extension of your team and under your brand if required.

  1. Quality and Consistency – We take the time to learn how your agency operates so that we can deliver services exactly as you need them in a custom and repeatable manner.
  2. Intellectual Property – Keep your best people on your most important and exciting work and grow both your IP and employee sat. We specialize in overflow production whether it’s many small projects or one large one.

UVE matched the beauty of Serial Cut's print work with this elegant Javascript site. For inspiration, our team in Argentina delivers!

Web Development

CSS/HTML
JavaScript, Ajax
Adobe Flash (AS 2/3), Flex
PHP (Symfony, Cake)
Ruby on Rails
Grails

Content Management

Drupal
Wordpress

Web Hosting

Websites, microsites,
landing pages, web apps
Domain management

Social Media Apps

Facebook app development
Twitter app development

Mobile Apps

iPhone and mobile Web development

International Web Standards

GSI delivers 100% of its code to these international standards:
HTML must pass W3C XHTML 1.0 Validation.
CSS must pass W3C CSS 2.1 Validation.
Must be compatible with FireFox 3, IE 7/8 and Safari 3/4.
Must comply with W3C SEO Checklist.

Open the Gates...

Contact Desmond Lo
t:416.629.8398
e:dez@gatedshores.com

Creative People designed RDC's site using the same fundamental Javascript techniques as our own. They probably didn't pay their developers $40/hr like GSI's clients would have!

While at Isobar/Molecular, Dan built the revolutionary Reebok Women's website setting a new benchmark for web production ingenuity.

Gated Shores Interactive is a BPO web development company designed specifically for creative agencies. Our fully-managed services alleviate production challenges usually related to scalability of both capacity and technology. These services are white-labelled, on demand and 30-50% less expensive than typical freelance or contract resources.

Dan and Dez, the founders of GSI, bring you two short names and nearly 30 years of technology and interactive agency experience. As senior executives of Isobar, the largest digital media network in the world (RECMA 2007), they revolutionized agency production processes and developed an uncanny ability to deliver on creative visions. They recognized the struggle that agencies were having with the quality, availability and affordability of web development services.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada our local and global production teams are many of the same big agency web development resources that we have managed for years.

GSI combines interactive agency expertise with their Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) practice. Most agencies work with freelancers and contractors to supplement their development teams, but are quickly dissatisfied with the hiring process, the quality and consistency of the work and the costs. Software development shops can improve consistency and quality, but few can comprehend the nuances of delivering marketing websites and the free-flowing nature of agency projects that are also constrained by tightly fixed budgets.

GSI's BPO practice alleviates all of these issues: First, agencies significantly reduce their costs by minimizing development overhead. Second, project quality and consistency improve as production moves to our fully-managed service model. Third, agency IP can actually grow. With Dan and Dez leading every project, agencies can consistently rely on their business savvy and experience unlike the temporary support of contract resources.

Desmond Lo, P.Eng, MBA

"Gated Shores Interactive brings a unique mix of global and local web development resources to interactive agencies that have been largely under-serviced by freelancers, contractors and software developers who do not appreciate tight budgets and the free-flowing nature of our business. Our model is simple: use our agency expertise to deliver consistently superior web dev at highly competitive rates."

Dez spent over a decade with iGate and Microsoft cutting his chops in technology and working in the interactive agency business. Prior to launching Gated Shores Interactive, he was the VP of Business Development for the Canadian office of Isobar, the largest digital media agency network in the world ( RECMA 2007). During his time there he collaborated with some of the hottest creative agencies like Molecular, Glue and FarFar. Locally, he's worked with virtually every digital media agency as well as many creative and design shops.

From AU to HK and back to Bay Street Finance Banter exemplifies GSI’s ability to harness the efficiency of global BPO. Call Dez!

Trust your agency’s production
to Gated Shores Interactive.

connect with Dez: dez@gatedshores.com or 416.629.8398

12 Sudbury Street, Suite 2407 Toronto ON M6J3W7 Canada