Process

How PolyDraft builds a site you actually own

A plain-language brief — or an existing website URL — becomes a complete, SEO- and AI-search-ready business website in a single session. A typical build runs from brief to live preview in under two hours, and the finished site deploys to a cloud account with your name on it.

Part one — the brief

Four steps of input, then the agent takes over

The brief wizard is the only part that needs you. It can extract business facts, products and images from a pasted URL, from screenshots, or from pasted text, and distills them into a verified knowledge base.

  1. 01

    Business info

    Describe the business in plain language, or paste an existing website URL, upload screenshots, or paste text. The wizard extracts the facts it finds and asks you to confirm them.

  2. 02

    Products and images

    Confirm what you sell and upload any real product photos you have. Your actual products only ever appear from your own images — the agent will never invent one.

  3. 03

    Design

    Choose from six generated design directions with live motion previews, or upload a reference screenshot to clone its design system, optionally including page layout.

  4. 04

    Confirm

    Review the distilled knowledge base — company facts, offerings, tone, prohibitions. From this point it is the only source of business truth the agent is permitted to use.

Part two — the autonomous build

Research, plan, write, verify

Stage 1

Research your market on the live web

The agent researches your industry and your real competitors before it plans a single page.

It fetches and analyzes competing sites that already rank, identifies the patterns they all share and the gaps none of them fill, then pulls live search demand data — monthly volume, keyword difficulty and search intent — to decide what each page should target. You see the research findings as they arrive.

Stage 2

Plan the site page by page

Research becomes a concrete plan: every page, its purpose, its structure and its single money keyword.

One primary keyword per page prevents your own pages from competing with each other. The plan also produces a site-wide internal-link dictionary that maps each keyword to the one page that owns it, so links inside the copy always point somewhere useful. You can review and adjust the plan before the build starts.

Stage 3

Write and build every page

Each page is written from its own research brief and built as real, server-rendered HTML.

Copy is original and grounded in the knowledge base and the keyword plan — never fabricated statistics, testimonials or client names. Key sections open answer-first so AI assistants can quote them accurately. The technical layer ships automatically: titles, meta descriptions, single H1, structured data, breadcrumbs, canonicals, sitemap, robots.txt, RSS, llms.txt and a live 404 page.

Stage 4

Quality gate, preview and deploy

An automated quality gate inspects the finished site before you ever see it as done.

It checks content depth, SEO completeness, accessibility and design consistency, and issues it finds are fixed and re-verified. You watch the whole build in a live preview and request changes in chat. When it is right, one click deploys the site to your own cloud account under your own domain — with the admin panel ready to run it.

The keyword layer behind stage two and the GEO artifacts from stage three are covered in detail on the ai website builder for seo page. You can also generate the same artifacts for any site with the free llms.txt generator.

Preparation

What to have ready before you start

None of this is mandatory — you can start with one sentence. But the more verified material the agent has, the less it has to leave out, because it will never fill a gap with an invention.

  • A sentence or two describing what the business does and who it serves
  • Your current website URL, if you have one — the wizard reads it for you
  • Real product photos, if you sell physical products
  • Any facts that must be exact: prices, addresses, certifications, contact details
  • Anything the site must never claim

After launch

You run the site, not a retainer

Blog CMS

Rich-text editor with categories, plus a REST API so external tools can publish posts directly.

Lead inbox

Every inquiry recorded with its country of origin, protected by anti-spam.

Image library

Replace any image in place — the URL never changes, so no page needs editing.

Translation manager

Optional auto-translate on publish; hand-edited translations are never overwritten.

Delivering this for clients instead of yourself? See the white label website builder for agencies page, or estimate a project with the website cost calculator. Running the same loop on a product that is still changing shape is covered under startup SEO and continuous growth.

Process questions

How does an AI website builder work?

You describe your business or paste an existing URL. PolyDraft extracts verified facts into a knowledge base, researches your market and competitors on the live web, plans each page with its own keyword, writes original copy, builds the pages, and runs an automated quality gate before you deploy.

How does an AI website builder work internally?

PolyDraft runs an autonomous agent loop: a research phase using live web fetching and search demand data, a planning phase that produces the page structure and keyword assignments, a build phase that writes each page from its own brief, and a verification phase that inspects the output and fixes what it finds.

How long does a build take?

A typical build runs from brief to a complete live-preview website in under two hours. You do not have to wait for it in one sitting — the preview updates as pages finish, and you can return and request changes at any time afterwards.

How do prompts work in an AI website builder?

You do not write prompts. The four-step wizard collects structured business facts, and after the build you request changes in plain conversational language — "make the hero shorter", "add a section about lead times" — and the agent applies them to the real pages.

Do I own the website and its code?

Yes. Finished sites deploy to your own cloud account under your own domain with no platform hosting fees. Canceling a subscription does not take a deployed site down, and Agency plans export the full source code.

Is it free to build a website with PolyDraft?

Yes. Any account can run the complete build — brief, design directions, research, full website, live preview — for free, with 500 welcome credits on activation. A paid subscription is only required to publish.

The fastest way to understand it is to run one

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