Many businesses don't need a new website. They need the one they already have, but in a form they can actually change.
Maybe it was built on a platform you're leaving, by an agency you no longer work with, or in code nobody on your team can touch. The content is fine. The problem is that every edit means asking someone.
Move my website is for that situation.
How it works
- Paste the address. On the cbuilding.ai home page, choose Move my website, enter your current website's address and press Move it here. Or paste the address into the new-website box and say you want it moved. You can also ask the C Building Assistant in your projects console to do it.
- Confirm you own it, or that you have permission to copy it. You have to tick this before the rebuild can start.
- Wait while the AI rebuilds it. C Building reads the site and rebuilds it as an editable C Building website. How long it takes depends on the size of the site: usually a few minutes for a small site, longer for a site with hundreds of posts, often around ten minutes or more. You can follow the progress in the project's chat. It runs in the background, so you can close the page.
- Edit it your way. Once it is ready, open the editor and keep changing the site like any C Building site: tell the AI what to change, or click anything on the page and change it yourself.
Like building a new site with AI, a rebuild uses points: the AI by usage, plus the time the website's editing environment runs.
Only for sites you own
This feature is for moving your own website, not for copying someone else's. Before a rebuild starts, you must confirm that you own the site or are authorised to use it.
The same principle applies across C Building: descriptions that ask the AI to copy a well-known brand's website exactly are refused. If you like how another site looks, describe the style instead.
Who can use it
When we launched it, it was open only to accounts we had enabled. Now every signed-in account can use it: paste your current website's address into the new-website box, or ask the C Building Assistant in your projects console. Questions? Contact us.
If your site runs on WordPress, or you would rather start fresh:
- From WordPress: paste your WordPress site's address and ask the AI to move it. It brings over your pages, posts, categories and images and keeps your existing URLs. Here too you confirm that you own the site or have permission to move it, and the site has to be publicly reachable with its WordPress REST API turned on (most sites have it on by default). Moved posts come in as drafts until you publish them, and outside services that need authorising, such as payments or email, have to be authorised again after the move. See bring your WordPress site to C Building.
- From a description: describe your business and let the AI build a fresh site, starting with a plan you can check first.
Why we built it this way
Why can a rebuild take longer than a new site?
A new site starts from a short description. A rebuild has to read every page of an existing site and reproduce it faithfully in a form you can edit. Bigger sites take longer.
Will my current website change?
No. The rebuild reads your site; it doesn't touch it. Your current site keeps running until you decide to move your domain to the new one.
Why do I have to confirm I own the site?
Because rebuilding a website means reproducing its content and design. That is only fair to do with your own site, or one you have permission to use.
Wrapping up
The website you already have may be exactly right; it just needs to become yours to change. Move my website turns it into a C Building site you can keep editing by chat or by click, without starting over.