--- title: "Introducing Atelier201: The AI website builder for professionals" description: "Build fast Astro websites with your own ChatGPT or Claude, own your code in Git, and pay one clear price. Meet Atelier201." date: 2026-11-03 language: en canonical: https://atelier201.com/blog/introducing-atelier201 source: Atelier201 blog --- **Today we are introducing Atelier201 to the world: a modern website builder designed for professionals who want fast, search-ready websites they actually own, built with the AI they already pay for.** For the past fifteen years, building a business website meant choosing between two frustrations: heavy legacy site builders that lock you into slow proprietary platforms, or complex modern frameworks that require an agency retainer just to update your Sunday opening hours. Over the past two years, AI arrived with big promises. But instead of solving the problem, most tools took another turn: selling tokens for code you cannot download, burning credits on their own mistakes, or generating complex web applications when what you needed was a fast, elegant website for your company. We built Atelier201 to change that. *Illustration: Two sample sites of the kind Atelier201 makes, for made-up businesses.* ## 1. Use the AI you already pay for If you run a business or build things online, you probably already pay for ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, or Gemini. Most AI site builders charge you a second AI subscription on top of their hosting fee, selling message credits or token meters. When the AI misunderstands a prompt, you pay for the mistake. Atelier201 takes the opposite approach. Through an open **Model Context Protocol (MCP) server**, a complete **CLI**, and a **REST API**, your own Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor agent can connect straight to your project. Your agent can scaffold a complete site, create new service pages, rewrite copy, or optimize metadata. Those calls run on your existing AI subscription. We charge nothing for agent calls. *Illustration: Your own Claude prepares the change, and it waits for you to publish it. Made-up data.* And if you do not use an external agent, Atelier201 includes a built-in assistant with 5,000 welcome credits and 1,000 monthly credits per live site. ## 2. You own the code: standard Astro, in Git Vendor lock-in is the quiet trap of the website builder industry. Wix says a site must stay on its servers, and Squarespace exports only part of one. You rent your site; you never own it. Every Atelier201 site is a standard, clean **[Astro](https://astro.build)** project in its own Git repository: - **Full code export:** download your HTML, styles, content collections, and assets with one click or a CLI command (`atelier201 pull`). - **Standard dependencies:** run `npm ci` and `npm run build` on your laptop, on GitHub Actions, or on Cloudflare Pages. - **Complete version history:** every change is a commit. If an agent or a teammate makes an unwanted edit, roll it back to the exact previous version in one click. You can host with us because it is fast and simple, not because you are trapped. *Illustration: The whole project comes down to your disk, and every change stays in its history. Made-up data.* ## 3. 100 on Lighthouse, ready for AI search Website speed is not a vanity metric. It shapes whether mobile visitors stay, whether Google ranks your pages, and whether AI answer engines (ChatGPT Search, Claude, Perplexity) can crawl and cite your content. According to HTTP Archive, the median Wix page weighs 2,768 KB and sends 1,757 KB of JavaScript. Atelier201 sites are static HTML served from Cloudflare's global network. The two real sites we measured weigh up to 351 KB, send 8 KB of JavaScript and scored **100 on every mobile Lighthouse run**. *Illustration: Lighthouse performance on mobile. Other builders: HTTP Archive medians, September 2026. Atelier201: three runs on each of two real sites, November 2026.* | Tool | Page weight | JavaScript | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Atelier201 | Up to 351 KB | 8 KB | | [Framer](/vs/framer) | 3,083 KB | 816 KB | | [Webflow](/vs/webflow) | 3,480 KB | 926 KB | | [Wix](/vs/wix) | 2,768 KB | 1,757 KB | | [WordPress](/vs/wordpress) | 2,720 KB | 677 KB | | [Squarespace](/vs/squarespace) | 3,572 KB | 1,495 KB | The full data is in [how fast websites are on each builder](/blog/website-builder-speed-data). Every site automatically includes: - An XML sitemap and localized hreflang tags - Clean `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt` files for AI search engines - JSON-LD structured business data - A clean Markdown twin of every page, readable by assistive technology and crawlers ## 4. Built for collaboration without seat taxes Most website platforms force you onto enterprise tiers the moment a second person needs access. On Atelier201, there are no seat tiers. Invite your business partner, your copywriter, your designer, or your freelance developer. Everyone works on drafts with shareable preview links. Nothing touches the live domain until you click publish. Content editing does not require code or prompting: click any text on the visual preview, or fill in the clean form generated from your content schema. *Illustration: Click the text on the preview, or fill in a field. Nothing goes live until someone publishes. Made-up data.* ## 5. One simple price: €90 a year No teaser rates that double on renewal. No paid add-ons for custom domains, languages or team seats. No separate bill for analytics. Atelier201 costs **€90 a year per site** (or €9 a month), excluding VAT. That includes: - Fast global hosting on Cloudflare - Cookieless privacy-friendly analytics - Multiple languages with full sitemaps - Up to 3 custom domains - Unlimited team members - Full Git and MCP server access *Illustration: The price stays the same at every renewal.* ## Be first in line Whether you are launching a new venture, replacing a sluggish WordPress install, or moving away from a costly proprietary builder, a free draft lets you connect your agent and see how fast your site can be. [Join the waitlist](/#waitlist), or read our [comparisons with other website builders](/vs).