Atelier Demo

Build a website by chatting with it

Atelier turns plain requests into real, editable Drupal content. Describe what you want and it composes structured, themed pages — refine them by talking, not by hunting through settings.

Drupal has always been able to build this site. The difference here is the experience: you don't need to be a developer to enjoy the ride.

An AI key is already connected, so there's no setup step. Sign in as admin / admin and the console is at /atelier.

One thing to know before you start: Atelier isn't a single chatbot that does everything. Each studio has its own assistant and its own live preview. The chat you land on first is General — that one is for getting your bearings; it won't build a page. Follow the four steps below instead.

1. Pages — make something exist

Open Pages and describe what you want:

"A landing page for a small ceramics studio in Lisbon."

You get a real page with real sections — headings, copy, layout — not a wireframe. Read it, then ask for changes: "make the intro shorter and add a section about the workshops."

Nothing publishes itself. The assistant proposes; you approve what ships.

2. Design System — make it yours

Go to Site → Design System. This is your brand: colour, type, shape.

"Warmer primary colour, softer headings."

Now go back to your page. It already changed. Then ask Pages for a second page — "a contact page" — and watch it arrive in the same brand, without being told.

This is the step worth your attention. A real website isn't ten pages, it's one brand ten times. Getting a page out of an AI is easy; getting a site that still looks like itself on page nine is the hard part, and it's the thing Atelier is built around.

3. Globals — turn pages into a site

Site → Globals owns the site-wide frame: header, footer, site identity, and which page is the front page.

"Put both pages in the main menu and use the studio name in the header."

(Design System holds the brand tokens; Globals holds the identity and chrome that wrap every page.)

4. Library — images (bring your own key)

Library is where images and reusable blocks live. Browsing, uploading, cropping and AI-written alt text all work right now.

AI image generation needs your own key — the shared trial endpoint has no image model. Add one via account menu → Set up AI providers and connect Google Gemini or Nano Banana (note: Google's image models need a billing-enabled key; a free key returns a quota error). Then ask Library to generate or edit an image and drop it straight into a page.

That same screen is how you swap any model. The included trial key is shared and tuned so you can explore properly rather than being rationed — but with your own key you choose the models and there's no shared budget. OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, a local Ollama and any LiteLLM-compatible endpoint are all supported.

Instances here are throwaway, so build freely.

Under the hood

It's real Drupal: standards-based content, config-as-code, your database. Nothing here is a mock-up you'd rebuild later — export it and take it anywhere.

Atelier is free and open source (GPL-2.0-or-later) and designed to be self-hosted (you already knew that, didn't you, but sometimes its good to remind ourself of this). Atelier is a Docker appliance you run yourself, keeping the content, the server, and the provider keys:

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

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