How to launch a website for a new business with AI
A new business needs a website before almost anything else works. Investors look you up, prospects check you out after a first call, and every ad or email you send points somewhere. If that somewhere is a placeholder page or a domain with nothing on it, you're losing people you worked hard to reach.
The usual path is slow for a founder. You either hire a designer and a developer, or you sign up for a website builder and spend weekends picking templates and writing every headline yourself. Either way, someone has to make the same set of decisions:
- which pages the site needs
- what each page says and who it's for
- what visitors should do when they're ready
- how the brand looks, from the logo to the fonts
- where the site lives and which domain points to it
Most AI website builders speed up one part of that. You describe your business in a sentence, and the builder fills a template with generated copy and images. It's fast, but the draft only knows what you told it in that sentence. The Kite blog covers those mechanics in more depth in How does an AI website builder work?.
An AI marketer can take on the whole job, because a marketing site is mostly marketing decisions. It can read the material you already have, research your market, and decide what the site needs to say before it designs anything. And since it's still around after launch, it can see how the site performs and keep making it better.
Kite is an AI marketer in your Slack. It researches your business, builds a growth strategy, and ships the work that brings you new customers. It can take a new business from a first conversation to a live website.
How Kite launches your marketing website
Kite starts with whatever you've already got, from a LinkedIn profile to a pitch deck to a plain conversation about your business. It asks the questions a good agency would ask, like who your customers are and why they choose you over the alternatives, and it skips the ones your material already answers.
From there, Kite plans the site. It decides which pages you need and which action counts as success, then builds design options for you to compare. You pick one, ask for changes in plain language, and review the finished site in a preview. When you approve it, Kite publishes the site and sends you the live link.
Launch day isn't the end of the job. Kite hosts the site, tracks who visits and what they do, and uses that to decide what to change next.
- Turn your LinkedIn profile, pitch deck, or GitHub repo into a website
- Decide what the site needs to say and do
- Choose a design and build out your brand
- Review, approve, and publish
- Keep improving the site after launch
Turn your LinkedIn profile, pitch deck, or GitHub repo into a website
The fastest way to a good first draft is material that already describes your business. A blank prompt box makes you write everything from scratch, while your existing material already holds the facts, the proof, and a lot of the language you'd use anyway.
Kite can start from several kinds of material:
- Your LinkedIn profile. Share your public profile URL, and Kite imports the profile, including your headline and work history, along with your recent public posts. The import takes about a minute. For a founder or consultant whose reputation is the product, that's often enough to go straight to designs.
- A pitch deck or one-pager. Attach it as a PDF or image, up to 10 MB. Your deck already explains the problem, the product, and why now, which is most of what a homepage has to say.
- A GitHub repo. If the repo holds an existing website, Kite imports it and works on the code directly, pulling and pushing changes through GitHub. If the repo is your product, share the public link and Kite reads it as source material, the way it reads any public page.
- An existing website. Kite reads the pages, pulls out your logo, colors, and fonts, and collects the product and team photos worth keeping.
- A conversation. If you don't have anything written down, Kite asks you about your business and builds from your answers.
A domain name on its own doesn't tell Kite much about your business, but it does settle where the site will live. Give Kite your domain along with your LinkedIn profile or deck, and it has what it needs for both the content and the launch.
If you're starting from LinkedIn, you can begin at kite.ai/linkedin.
Decide what the site needs to say and do
Before it designs anything, Kite works out what the site is for. It reads what you've shared, researches your company and competitors, and asks about anything it still can't answer. Those questions focus on strategy rather than exact wording, such as what makes you different, what proof builds trust, and what you'd hate to see on the site. When you do give it exact wording, like a product name, a price, or a customer quote, Kite keeps it word for word.
The most important decision is the site's goal. Kite picks the one action that means the site worked, such as booking a demo, requesting a quote, or signing up. A seed-stage software company might want demo requests, while an independent consultant might want intro calls. That goal shapes the page structure, where the calls to action go, and what Kite measures after launch. If you don't name a goal, Kite infers one and checks it with you after the first publish.
If you'd rather skip the questions, say so. Kite will build from what it has, and you can steer from there.
Choose a design and build out your brand
Kite builds three design options for your site, each with its own visual style. They're all built from the same plan, so you're comparing directions rather than starting over three times. You can pick one outright, ask Kite to make one warmer or bolder, combine pieces ("use the hero from design 3 in design 1"), or ask for a fresh round if none of them feel right.
Your brand carries through every option. If you already have a logo, colors, and fonts, Kite uses them exactly and doesn't redraw your mark. If you're starting fresh, Kite creates a design system for the business, defining the palette, typography, and imagery style, along with rules for using the logo. It can generate a logo and original images, or use the photos you upload, like a team shot for the About page.
Once you've picked a design, Kite writes the copy in your voice and builds the site. It adds a contact form that sends submissions to the email address you choose.
Review, approve, and publish
You see the site in a preview before anyone else does. Ask for any change in plain language, whether it's a sharper headline, a new pricing section, or a different photo, and Kite makes it. Kite checks with you before it deletes pages or sections or changes important business details.
When you approve, Kite publishes the site, checks that it displays correctly, and shares the live URL. You can connect a domain you already own or buy a new one when you publish. It can take up to 24 hours for a newly connected domain to show your site while DNS records update across the internet.
Kite also handles the technical setup a new site needs to be found. That includes page titles and descriptions, plus structured data that tells search engines and AI assistants what your business is. Kite also sets up your sitemap and an llms.txt file.
Keep improving the site after launch
A marketing site gets better the same way any marketing does: you watch what people do and change what isn't working. Kite has analytics built into every site it hosts, so it's measuring from the first visitor without a separate tracking setup.
Its reports cover the numbers that matter for a new site:
- visitors, page views, and sessions
- the pages people visit most and where they came from
- form submissions and clicks on your calls to action
- conversion funnels toward the goal you agreed on
- changes compared with the previous period
Kite uses those results to decide what to work on next and brings you the proposal in Slack. It might rewrite a page that gets traffic but few signups, add a landing page for a campaign, or fix a layout that breaks on phones. When a change is worth testing properly, Kite can split traffic between two versions and make the winner permanent once you approve. You can read more about that work in Improve website conversion and Run website A/B tests Coming soon .
What you get
A site plan
The pages your site needs, the goal it drives, and the proof and messaging each page carries, based on your material and Kite's research.
Three design options
Complete directions for your homepage that you can compare, remix, and refine before choosing one.
A brand system
Your existing logo, colors, and fonts applied consistently, or a new design system if you're starting from nothing.
A live, hosted website
Copy, images, and a working contact form, published at a URL you can share, with your own domain when you connect one.
Ongoing improvement
Analytics from day one, reports on what's working, and new pages, rewrites, and tests proposed as your site collects data.
How to get started
Add Kite to Slack and tell it what you want, in plain language. You might say, "Build a website for my consulting practice from my LinkedIn," with your profile link, or "Turn this pitch deck into a site that gets investors and early customers to book a call," with the deck attached.
Kite reads what you've shared and asks what it still needs to know. When it has enough, it summarizes what it plans to build so you can confirm or correct it before it starts on the designs.
You don't need to connect anything to launch a site Kite hosts. Connect GitHub only if you want Kite to work on a site whose code lives in your own repository. Kite asks before it publishes, and you approve by replying in the Slack thread. As you get comfortable with its work, you can give it more room to act on its own.
Integrations used to launch a marketing website
Most of this job runs on tools that come with Kite, so you can launch without opening accounts anywhere else.
Build, host, and measure the site
Work with code you already have
Common questions
How much does it cost to have AI build a website?
You can build and publish a site on Kite's free plan, which includes some usage. Connecting a custom domain needs a paid plan or an active trial. The Growth plan costs $100 a month and includes $100 in AI credits, and pricing is per workspace, so adding teammates doesn't raise it. If you buy a new domain through Kite, you pay for the domain separately.
Can ChatGPT build a website?
ChatGPT can write website copy and code, but you still have to host the site, connect a domain, and publish it yourself. It also won't be there afterward to see how the site performs. Kite takes the site from plan to publish and hosts it, then keeps measuring and updating it.
Can my website take payments or bookings?
Kite builds marketing sites, so payments, bookings, and newsletter signups work through the provider you already use. Kite adds the buttons and links that send visitors to your Stripe checkout, Calendly page, or signup form. Its own contact form sends messages to the email address you choose.
Can I update my site from LinkedIn later, not just at launch?
Yes. Share your profile again after a new role or a round of posts, and Kite asks how you'd like the new details used before it changes anything. The import covers public profile details and public posts, so it can't bring in recommendations, connections, or anything private.
Can I take my website code with me?
Yes. You can export your site's code from the Settings page in the Kite dashboard, or have Kite push it to a GitHub repository.