A complete website, built in minutes.
Half of first builds finish in under nine minutes and nine in ten inside twelve. What arrives is the whole site, and it is live by the time the build stops.
Designhouse is an AI website builder for small businesses. You type what the business is, a short chat asks for what that sentence cannot carry, and then the build runs: the pages the business needs, each one designed and written, with a form wired to reach you. Across the thirty days to September 10, 2026, half of those first builds finished in under nine minutes and nine in ten inside twelve.
How long a build actually takes.
Measured on the first builds people ran in the thirty days to September 10, 2026.
Half finished in under nine minutes. Nine in ten finished inside twelve. One in ten took longer than that, which is why you will not find a flat ten-minute promise anywhere on this site: more pages, and more pictures to make for them, means more minutes.
That clock covers the build. The chat before it takes as long as your answers do, and it asks about four things: what you sell, where you work, how customers should reach you, and the feel you want.
While it runs, the screen names what is happening. Planning, then the header and footer, then the pictures, then a row for every page in the plan, then the final checks. You do not have to sit and watch: close the tab and the build carries on, and an email tells you when the site is live.
The pages are built at the same time.
The speed comes from splitting the work up and checking each piece as it lands.
Planned before anything is written
The first step works out which pages this business needs and what each one has to say, so nothing is written twice or thrown away.
Every page at once
Each planned page is built in its own process alongside the others, so a five-page site is not five times the wait of a one-page site.
Pictures on their own track
Images are made while the pages are being written rather than after them, so the two run down the same minutes.
Checked as it goes
Finished pages are compiled and opened in a real browser before anything is published, which catches the page that looks fine in code and breaks on screen.
Publishing is part of the build
The last step writes the site to the edge network and puts it on its address, so there is no separate deploy to sit through once the build says it has finished.
Complete means the whole site.
Not one long page with your name typed into it.
Kettleworth Plumbing & Heating came out of a build like this with four pages: a call-out fee and an hourly rate written out, a boiler service and a landlord gas check priced, the six districts it covers, an emergencies page saying which jobs cannot wait, and a form that asks what is wrong and where.
That first version publishes itself. When the build stops the site is already live at its designhouse.site address, hosting and SSL included, and the email telling you so has gone out. What you change after that stays yours until you republish, and you can take the site offline whenever you want.
Built in the time it takes to read this.
Each of these came back from a build of a few minutes. The brief that produced it sits on the same page, so you can see exactly what was asked for.
- What it is
- An AI website builder for small businesses
- How you edit
- By chat, in plain language
- Code or drag-and-drop
- Neither
- Starting point
- A description, an existing website, or a Google Business listing
- Pages
- As many as the business needs, planned for it rather than picked from a list
- Forms
- Working contact and request forms; submissions reach your inbox and your dashboard
- Hosting
- Included, on a global edge network with SSL
- Your own domain
- Yes, on the Pro plan
- Build time
- Most first builds finish in under nine minutes, nine in ten inside twelve
- Free plan
- One published site at a designhouse.site address, no credit card
- Is the site live as soon as the build finishes?
- Yes. The first version publishes itself at a designhouse.site address, with hosting and SSL, and you get an email saying so. Changes you make after that wait until you republish, and you can take the site offline whenever you want.
- What if my build runs past twelve minutes?
- One in ten does. The progress view keeps naming the page it is working on, and you can leave: the build carries on without the tab open and emails you when the site is live. If it fails outright, it can be retried and picks up from where it stopped rather than starting again.
- How long does a change take once the site is up?
- A wording or price change is quick. A new page, or a section rebuilt from scratch, takes longer because it is being written and designed the same way the first build was.
- Does starting from my existing site make it faster?
- It makes the questions shorter rather than the build shorter. The chat reads your current site first, so what it already knows it does not ask you again, and your photographs and logo come across instead of being made from scratch.
- Is a site built this fast any good?
- Every page is compiled and opened in a real browser before it is published, so what comes back broken is fixed before you see it. Whether the words are right for your business is your call, which is why the examples publish the brief beside the site.
- What does it cost to try?
- Nothing. One published site is free, with no card at signup and enough build credit to make the site and take it live.
Updated September 2026