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Why we built Atelier
A website builder you talk to, running on your own machine, built on Drupal. Here is the thinking behind it.
Most website builders make you choose. Either you get an approachable tool that owns your content and your hosting, or you get a serious content platform that expects you to learn it before it does anything for you.
Atelier is our attempt to stop choosing. You describe the page you want in plain language. Atelier composes a real, editable page from typed components, shows it to you, and waits for you to approve before anything goes live. The whole thing runs as a Docker appliance on a machine you control, with the AI provider key you chose.
Why Drupal underneath
Drupal has spent two decades solving the unglamorous parts: structured content, permissions, translations, revisions, an upgrade path. We did not want to rebuild any of that. We wanted to put a different front door on it.
So Atelier is built on Drupal, and every page you make is ordinary Drupal content. If you outgrow the chat, nothing is locked inside it.
What you can expect here
This blog is where we will write about releases, the design decisions behind the console and the page agent, and the things we get wrong along the way.
If you want to try it, the install guide is one command. The source is on GitHub.