How it works
From first chat to a live site you keep by talking.
What you'll need
3 things, about 15 minutes.
A free GitHub account
the filing cabinet where your website's files live. You'll never open it if you don't want to.
A free Vercel account
the company that puts your site on the internet. Free plan covers most small-business sites.
An AI assistant you already use
Claude or ChatGPT.
No credit card for hosting. No code. If you can send a text, you're qualified.
Full details on What you need →Does it set up Vercel and GitHub for me?
You create the two free accounts yourself — about five minutes. Passwords and passkeys stay yours; no AI should own your accounts. Then your AI does the rest: creates your website's files, connects hosting, sets your domain, wires the settings.
You hold the keys. It does the driving.
- 01
Connect your AI
Paste one line into Claude or ChatGPT so it can use Chatterbuilt. Free tools work without a key.
What's actually happening
Your AI opens a connection to Chatterbuilt's tool server so it can call product tools from chat — same idea as plugging an app into your assistant.
- 02
Answer questions about your business
About 15 minutes, conversational — name, services, hours, photos, how you sound. No prompts to invent.
What's actually happening
Answers write into one content file your site reads from end to end. Change that file and pages, SEO, and schema follow — no CMS maze.
- 03
Draft first. Live when you say.
Your AI builds the site and shows you a private preview first. Nothing goes live until you say so — that's the professional staging-then-production workflow, built in by default.
What's actually happening
Your AI works on a preview branch. The platform builds a private preview URL so you can check the real site before customers ever see it.
- 04
Say "make it live."
When you're happy with the preview, tell your AI to publish. Your site is on the internet.
What's actually happening
your AI merges the preview branch; the platform builds, runs its checks, and deploys to Vercel's edge network
For the technical crowd
Want the architecture, tool surface, and release path? The platform page is the under-the-hood deep dive.
Open the platform page →How it runs your website
After launch, you keep the site current the same way — by talking to your AI.
Tell it what changed
Hours, photos, services, specials — say it once.
e.g. "Close at 5 on Fridays and add the new deck photos."
Drop photos in the chat
Phone photos go straight into ChatGPT or Claude — your agent places them on the site, sized and captioned. No separate uploader. No media library.
e.g. "Put these six remodel photos in the gallery with captions."
It checks before it ships
Preview links and a checker catch mistakes before customers see them.
e.g. "Show me a preview and check before we go live."
It keeps you found
SEO and AI-search updates so you show up on Google and in answers like ChatGPT.
e.g. "Make us show up in AI search."
It watches the numbers
Your private visitor stats — not locked in someone else's dashboard.
e.g. "How many people visited this week?"
Updates arrive by themselves
Platform improvements can land on your schedule when you ask your AI to check for them.
e.g. "Check for Chatterbuilt updates and pull them in."
How photos get on your site
Drop photos straight into the chat with your agent. ChatGPT and Claude both accept image uploads. Your agent places them on the site — sized and captioned. Phone → chat → live. No separate uploader. No media library to manage. Need hero art or a seasonal banner you don't have yet? Ask your agent to generate professional images on request.
What's actually happening
Your agent commits the media files directly to your site's file repository (the same place your pages live). The site reads those files on the next preview or publish — standard files, not a proprietary media vault.
Connect command
One line in Claude.
Paste this into Claude so it can use Chatterbuilt. Free tools work without a key.
$ claude mcp add --transport http chatterbuilt https://chatterbuilt-mcp.vercel.app/api/mcpStart from a template. End up with YOUR site.
The template is scaffolding, not a look. Your AI restyles colors, fonts, layout, imagery, and voice to your brand during the interview — show it your logo, your truck, your work — it builds the brand around you.
No two Chatterbuilt sites need to look alike — it's real code, not a theme.