Introducing SiteShip: an AI-first website engine
A hosted website platform built for agents first — generate, edit, preview, and publish your site by talking to it. Now in early access.
For the last fifteen years, "website builder" has meant one thing: a person clicks around inside a UI and assembles a page out of pre-made blocks. Every product in the category — Wix, Squarespace, Elementor, the lot — is a refinement of that same loop.
That loop wasn't built for agents. It was built for hands and eyes.
And the data those builders produce wasn't built for agents either. A page lives as an opaque blob of block IDs, hidden references, and rendering rules — designed to be written by the UI and read by a runtime, with nothing in between for an AI to reason about. So when an agent generates or edits one of these sites, it isn't looking at a page; it's reasoning about thousands of records that were never documented for outside readers. Edits drift. Round-trips through the visual editor quietly lose information. You feel it before you can name it: the result is almost right, but never quite the site you described.
SiteShip is the first website engine designed the other way around. The site is plain files — pages, templates, data, theme tokens — that an agent can read, write, and reason about directly. There's no canvas to puppeteer, no proprietary block format to round-trip through.
The choices underneath are deliberate: HTML, CSS, Markdown, Liquid templates, file-based routing. Primitives every modern AI has been training on for as long as the web has existed. There's no new DSL to learn, no proprietary schema to reverse-engineer — just the web, the way agents already understand it.
You tell SiteShip what you want, and it ships.
Today we're opening early access.
What ships today
The builder is live and free to try at app.siteship.ai. Out of the box you get:
- A hosted builder UI — chat with the agent, watch it edit your site in real time, preview before publishing.
- Version history with one-click restore, so the agent can experiment without breaking anything.
- Custom domain + SSL, included on the paid plan.
- Blog, contact forms, SEO meta, sitemap, JSON-LD — handled by the engine, not by you wiring up plugins.
- A generous monthly AI credit allowance at a flat $20 a month per site. Predictable bill, no per-token surprises.
- One-click HTML export, anytime. The site is yours. We just happen to host it really well.
The builder runs on a small, fast Cloudflare Worker — pages render at the edge and images get optimized on the fly. No plugins to wrangle, no servers to keep patched.
What's coming: bring your own agent
SiteShip's hosted agent is the easiest way in, but it isn't the only one we're building. The whole engine is structured so any coding agent — Claude Code, Cursor, your own — can author a SiteShip site by editing files locally, previewing with siteship preview, and publishing with siteship push.
The CLI exists today. Documentation, the open-source skill bundle, and a polished onboarding for technical users are landing in the next few weeks. If you're an agent power user and want to kick the tires early, drop us a line.
How we compare
We've written up the honest version of how SiteShip stacks up against the tools you're probably weighing it against:
The short version: traditional builders weren't designed for AI, and AI app builders weren't designed to be websites. SiteShip is what you get when you start from scratch with both constraints in mind.
Where we're headed
Early access is the start, not the end. The roadmap includes team accounts, more deeply integrated commerce, richer membership tiers, and a steady widening of what the agent can build without help. The fastest way to influence what we ship next is to start using it and tell us what's missing.
Welcome aboard. We're glad you're here.
Try it
Tell SiteShip what you want.
It ships.
Free to try. $20 a month to publish on your domain. Export anytime.