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Atelier by AIncient Labs

Build your website by chatting with it.

Describe what you want. Atelier composes real, editable pages — and you keep the content, the server, and the keys.

An AI-first site builder you run yourself, built on Drupal. A craftsman's calm: ancient discipline, modern tech.

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

Requires Docker + the Compose plugin. Boots keyless. How it works

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A craftsman's calm, engineered precisely.

Atelier keeps the parts that matter close to you — the content, the machine, the keys — and hands the busywork to the model.

Chat-driven

Describe a page, get a page

Plain requests become structured, editable pages — no theme wrestling, no page-builder sprawl. Refine by talking, not by hunting through settings.

Ownership

You own it, end to end

A self-hosted appliance, not a SaaS. Your content lives in your database; your provider keys stay on your box. No lock-in, no tenant fees.

Foundation

Built on Drupal

Standing on a mature, battle-tested CMS. Everything you make is real Drupal content — structured, standards-based, and yours to take anywhere.

Your AI

Bring your own provider

Connect the provider you trust in a first-run wizard. Fresh installs boot keyless — nothing phones home until you say so.

Up and running in three steps.

Not a binary download — Atelier is a real app (PHP, a database, storage). The one-liner lays down a small Docker Compose stack and starts the appliance; its own entrypoint does the first-boot install for you.

  1. Have Docker running

    Docker Desktop or Engine, with the Compose plugin (docker compose version). That's the only prerequisite.

  2. Run the installer

    One line lays down ~/.aincient (app and database), pulls the image, and starts it. Re-running is an in-place upgrade — idempotent.

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

    Prefer to read before you run? Inspect install.sh first.

  3. Open the console

    When it finishes converging, the console is at http://localhost:41221. Log in, connect an AI provider in the onboarding wizard, and start building.

Atelier is free and open source — GPL-2.0-or-later, like Drupal itself. Star or watch the repo to follow releases.

Context is the new RAM. Tokens are the new bytes.

The promise leads; the engineering earns it.