# Atelier by AIncient Labs

> Atelier is an AI-first, chat-driven website builder you run yourself, built on
> Drupal. You describe what you want in plain language and Atelier composes real,
> editable pages — while you keep the content, the server, and the AI provider
> keys. It ships as a self-hosted Docker appliance, not a SaaS.

## What it is

- **Chat-driven authoring** — plain requests become structured, editable Drupal pages; refine by talking, not by hunting through settings.
- **Self-hosted and owned end to end** — a Docker appliance, not a hosted service. Content lives in your own database; provider keys stay on your machine. No lock-in, no tenant fees.
- **Built on Drupal** — everything you make is real, standards-based Drupal content you can take anywhere.
- **Bring your own AI provider** — connect the provider you trust in a first-run onboarding wizard. Fresh installs boot keyless; nothing phones home until you say so.
- **Free and open source** — licensed GPL-2.0-or-later, like Drupal itself.

## Install

Requires Docker with the Compose plugin. One line lays down a small Docker
Compose stack under `~/.atelier`, pulls the image, and starts the appliance;
its entrypoint runs the first-boot install. Re-running is an idempotent in-place
upgrade. When it finishes, the console is at `http://localhost:41221`.

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

## Links

- [Homepage](https://aincient-labs.com/): product overview and install guide.
- [Features](https://aincient-labs.com/features): what you can do with Atelier — build pages, brand, media, translation, SEO, menus, email, static export — each as a real chat request, with a human approving what ships.
- [Documentation](https://aincient-labs.com/docs): the full Atelier documentation site.
- [Documentation index](https://aincient-labs.com/docs/llms.txt): every documentation page, as an llms.txt link list.
- [Full documentation](https://aincient-labs.com/llms-full.txt): the complete documentation concatenated into one plain-text file for ingestion.
- [Install script](https://aincient-labs.com/atelier/install.sh): the raw one-liner installer (inspect before running).
- [Source on GitHub](https://github.com/aincient-labs/atelier-cms): the public Atelier repository; star or watch to follow releases.

## Facts

- Name: Atelier (publicly "Atelier by AIncient Labs")
- Publisher: AIncient Labs
- Category: self-hosted AI website builder / content management
- Foundation: Drupal
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Price: free
- Distribution: versioned Docker appliance image, self-hosted