There are lots of website builders available (too many?), and even plenty of AI-enabled website builders, but all of them share the same problem: lack of simplicity. Tens of thousands of small business owners every year need to find a way to navigate through drag-n-drop interfaces, remembering what password they used to sign up for a service, and finagling with connecting their custom domains without guidance. None of these services really understand that people just want to be able to quickly get their website online without needing to deal with all of the extra steps. To that, I said BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I wanted an easy-to-use service that doesn't take hours of reading documentation to figure out.
That's why I built Casso. Casso is an AI agent that has all the tools needed to build, host, maintain, update, upgrade and integrate your website, but instead of needing to work through signing in to an account, understanding a new user interface, and figuring out where the “Publish” button is like you would have to do with other website builders, Casso operates entirely through email. In fact, this blog post itself was published through email:
By changing the way that you interface with our AI, you avoid the annoyance of other website builders, and get the most truly simple website building experience: explaining what you want, and getting exactly that. Additionally, if Casso cannot complete an action, it can notify a human (me!) to follow-up with you. If Casso can't do something for you, I'll make sure that I do (unless you ask Casso to cure cancer, currently I can't do that either).
Who Is Casso For?
Casso can build a wide range of websites. Below are a few sample websites built by Casso (hint: this website is also built by Casso!) so that you can see the range that Casso can handle: improv groups, cat websites, and website generator websites. We work best for small business owners, professionals looking to showcase their work, artists, lawyers, students, and the like. We even work great for restaurants: a restaurant owner can simply attach their logo and their menu and Casso will be able to build a website based only on that!
Fuzzy Dice: an improv group website built by Casso.
How To Maintain Your Website
Information changes. Your business changes. It takes time to keep your website up-to-date with all of your current promotions and updates. Casso mitigates this pain by making the process of updating your website simple. Any time you want to add a new page or have an announcement pop-up for your visitors, Casso can do that. You just need to send an email and it'll get taken care of.
Tips for Using Casso
- Include Attachments: Casso can read email attachments and upload them to your website. Include your logo for Casso to use, and include any other supporting documents, like a menu for a restaurant or a resume for a personal website.
- Include Sample URLs: Casso can view other websites for design inspiration. If you like the style of a certain website, tell Casso to make the website in that format!
- Be Specific: The more context that you provide Casso about the website that you want, the better. If you are feeling uninspired, however, request a generic website and Casso will ask you follow-up questions to refine your website.
Treat Casso like you would if you hired a smart college student as your web developer, except Casso will work for you 24/7, without sleeping, or going out partying (yet).
How Casso Builds Websites
Casso accepts your email, reads any attachments, then launches into a cycle of reasoning and tool calling until your request is completed. For AI agents, tools are what they use to actually get work done. For example, Casso comes equipped with over twenty tools to do various actions like creating a new website, uploading files, editing files, generating images, searching stock images, connecting custom domains, and the list goes on. These tools allow Casso to do more than just respond to your email, but instead take meaningful action on your website(s). Finally, after using its tools, Casso will respond to your email to let you know what it did or could not do, so that you can see what needs to happen next, if anything.
Casso is a next-generation AI agent: I created Jaime, an AI customer support agent for Bionic Ads, and I have been working on website generation projects for almost 3 years. I know the ins and outs of how AI agents are supposed to be created, and how to make sure that the agent actually works for you, instead of simply creating frustration. That's what Casso is about: finish building your website quickly, and then walk away and enjoy your free time. Get rid of frustration by using Casso.
Pricing
Free. Casso is free forever when your website is hosted under a .bycasso.com domain (the default). If you decide that you want to make your website a bit more professional, you can upgrade your website for $8/month which allows you to connect any custom domain you want from an external provider. Casso can walk you through how to do this.
How To Get Started
Getting started is easy, simply send an email to casso@casso-websites.com detailing the website that you want to initiate the process.