ABOUT BLUEWATERCODE
Good work starts with getting involved.
A technology and marketing company with local roots, practical thinking, and a commitment to the businesses we work with.
OUR STARTING POINT
Downtown roots.
A wider perspective.
bluewaterCODE launched in 2024 and began working with a core group of businesses in downtown Port Huron. Websites, social media, and restaurant ordering were practical ways to help local owners connect with their customers.
Those relationships shaped the company. We work closely with downtown Port Huron, providing pro-bono work and practical support alongside our client services. Today, we help both startups and established businesses with websites, software, marketing, and restaurant technology.
HOW WE WORK
Understand the business.
Then build the solution.
Our work can mean rebuilding a website, recovering a digital presence, coordinating marketing, or helping a restaurant introduce direct ordering. The starting point stays the same: what does the business need?
We bring technical and creative work together so the website, the software, and the message support each other.
- Useful technology, shaped around a real problem.
- Close collaboration with the people doing the work.
- Care for the local businesses and communities around us.
- Support that continues beyond a launch.
AN APPROVED EMSBN SERVICE PROVIDER
Built with the support of the people building this region.
We are an approved service provider through the Eastern Michigan Small Business Network and the Economic Development Alliance of St. Clair County. We help the region’s new and established businesses get online, reach customers, and build digital tools. Propeller and EMSBN also supported bluewaterCODE’s own development from freelance work into a company.
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MEET THE FOUNDER
Aaron Ladd
Aaron Ladd is the founder and CEO of bluewaterCODE, a software development and digital marketing company based in Port Huron, Michigan. His work connects websites, custom technology, restaurant online ordering, and marketing for local businesses and organizations.
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