AI website builder for small business: how to get live

An AI website builder writes and lays out your site from a description of your business, then keeps it updated when your hours or prices change. Pick one that registers the domain in your name, hosts close to your customers, connects to Google Business Profile and lets you change things by asking.

What an AI website builder actually does

You describe the business in a sentence or two, it asks a few questions, and it drafts the pages, the copy, the images and the structure. The good ones then stay in the loop: tell it you now close at 3 on Saturdays and the contact page, footer and Google listing all change together.

The checklist

• A domain registered to you, not the platform, so you can leave with it.
• Hosting close to your customers so pages load fast on a mobile connection.
• Google Business Profile sync, because most local searches never reach your website at all.
• Prices and tax shown the way your customers expect.
• A booking or enquiry path that lands in a CRM, so the site produces customers and not just visits.

What it costs in 2026

Where Kahu fitsKahu SitesTell Kahu what you do and it drafts your whole site in your own words, hosts it, and keeps it updated when your hours or prices change.Written in your words from one conversationHosting, domain and SSL includedHours and prices update themselvesSee Kahu Sites →bayphysio.co.nzPhysio in Mount Maunganui, same-week appointmentsBook onlinePricesACC claimsYou changed Saturday hours in chat · site updated 2 min ago

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