Shipping AI Websites Is Harder Than Building Them

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’ve already felt the magic.

That moment when AI writes real code. When a website appears almost instantly. When you sit back and think, there’s no way this used to take weeks.

The first time it happened to me, I was hooked. In what felt like no time at all, I had a polished, great-looking site running locally. Layouts, styles, structure—done. It felt like cheating in the best possible way.

Then I tried to actually finish it.

The part no one warns you about

I needed to add pages, change copy, and dial in content. I needed to think about SEO. Suddenly, every small change meant re-prompting the AI or carefully editing code I didn’t write. What took minutes to create took days to refine. The momentum vanished.

The issue wasn’t the AI.
It was what came next.

AI can build a website incredibly fast. Shipping that website is the hard part.

Most AI-built sites are static. There’s no real system behind them, which makes content difficult to manage and even harder to scale. Over time, people try to patch this together by wiring tools like Notion, Airtable, or spreadsheets just to keep things moving. It works, for a while.

The gap

What I kept wishing for was something simple. A way to take what the AI had already built and give it structure. A way to edit content without touching code, to add pages without unraveling everything, to make the site feel finished instead of fragile.

That gap—between something that looks done and something that actually is—kept showing up.

So I built Fast Mode.

Fast Mode automatically converts a static, AI-built website into a fully functional, CMS-backed site in under five minutes. No rebuilding. No setup. You connect your site and it just works.

Once it’s converted, you can manage content visually, handle blogs and pages, control SEO, and collect form submissions without touching code or re-prompting an AI. Your site stays fast, structured, and easy to update as it grows.

You still use AI to build.

Fast Mode makes what you built usable.

I built Fast Mode because I kept running into this same wall. AI got me most of the way there, but there was no clean path to production—no simple way to manage content, no way to scale without friction.

If you’re ready to move past static AI demos and into real, production-ready websites, welcome.