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A website worthy of your work.

Tell Atelier CMS about your business and it makes your web presence for you, a site that looks right on every screen and every time someone shares it. You own all of it. There is no subscription, and everything you make stays with you.

Download the app

Free. Needs Docker Desktop (free) and your own AI key; you pay your AI provider only for what you use.

Plate 1 Kelp & Kiln, a ceramics studio. Demo site made with Atelier.

A pale timber shelf of stoneware jugs and bowls, some sage-glazed, above a plain lime-washed wall in soft window light.
The Kelp & Kiln website on a large screen: “Stoneware made on the Pentowan coast”.
The same site on a phone.

Made by talking to it.

Say what you want in plain words. Atelier makes the page and shows it to you as a draft. Change what you like, the same way, and nothing goes live until you publish it.

Kelp & Kiln
Ceramics studio
Vinyl Hollow
Record shop and gig room
Ravensgate Legal
Law firm
Meridian Clinic
Health clinic, in English and German
Fold
Developer tool

Demo sites made with Atelier for invented businesses. Kelp & Kiln and Vinyl Hollow are on the plates at the top of this page.

A pale worn workbench by a studio window: an open sketchbook of jug drawings, a pencil, a sage-glazed mug and glaze test tiles.
Plate 3 Unedited recording: a small-batch coffee roaster's landing page, made from one request, then exported and put online with Cloudflare Pages. Download the MP4 · Watch on YouTube

Software you can still open in ten years.

Your site is plain Drupal on your own disk. Export it as ordinary files whenever you like, and host them anywhere. Nothing here needs our permission to keep working.

Runs on
Your computer
Built on
Drupal, open source
Leaves as
A folder of HTML files
AI
Your own key, at your provider's prices
Costs
Shown for each change, as you work
Subscription
None
Looking down at a studio packing table: plain archive boxes, twine, paper tape, a wrapped cup and a large sheet of kraft paper.

kelp-and-kilnstatic export

  • index.htmlHome
  • the-collection/The Collection
  • process/Process
  • workshops/Workshops
  • the-studio/The Studio
  • stockists/Stockists
  • contact/Contact
  • sites/Images and styles
Plate 4 The Kelp & Kiln demo site as exported: one folder, a page per directory, ready for any web host.

Install Atelier.

The Atelier app installs everything on your own computer and opens your site when it is ready. Every option below installs the same thing; you only need one.

Free and open source, GPL-2.0-or-later like Drupal itself. Follow releases on GitHub.

  1. 1 Have Docker running

    Docker Desktop on macOS and Windows, Docker Engine with the Compose plugin on Linux. It is free, and the only thing Atelier needs besides an AI key.

  2. 2 Download the Atelier app

    It installs, updates and backs up your site, then opens it in your browser. Nothing to type. Re-running any install path upgrades in place.

    The macOS app is signed and notarized by Apple. The Windows app is not signed yet, so Windows may warn you: choose More info, then Run anyway. All releases

    Rather use the terminal? Homebrew or a one-line installer

    Homebrew, macOS and Linux

    The same app as a command-line tool.

    brew install aincient-labs/tap/atelier && atelier app install

    One-line installer, any Docker host

    Lays down the Compose stack and starts it. Suits servers and headless machines.

    curl -fsSL https://aincient-labs.com/atelier/install.sh | bash

    Read it before you run it: inspect install.sh.

  3. 3 Open your site

    The app opens it when setup finishes, or find it at http://localhost:41221. Connect your AI provider in the first-run wizard and start by saying what your business does.

Building sites for clients? Atelier for agencies.

Make the website your work deserves.

Download the app

Free. Needs Docker Desktop (free) and your own AI key.