# Willo documentation

> How to use Willo, area by area, for the founder who runs a business on it and for the AI agents that work on it for them.

Last updated: October 16, 2026

Source: https://www.willo.ai/docs

Willo builds and runs your business's website, backend, content and marketing through one chat. These docs explain each part: what it does, how to use it, and where its limits are. Every page also has a Markdown version for AI agents. Add `.md` to any docs URL.

## Two ways in

**I run a business on Willo.** Start with what Willo does, then work through chat, your site and the rest of the platform. Read in this order: [Start here](https://www.willo.ai/docs/start-here), [Willo chat](https://www.willo.ai/docs/chat), [Your site](https://www.willo.ai/docs/site), [Backend](https://www.willo.ai/docs/backend), [Content & CMS](https://www.willo.ai/docs/content), [Agent Programs](https://www.willo.ai/docs/agent-programs), [Plans & credits](https://www.willo.ai/docs/plans).

**I'm connecting an AI agent.** Connect Claude Code, Cursor or Codex CLI, learn the draft and approval model, then use the reference. Read in this order: [AI agents & MCP](https://www.willo.ai/docs/ai-agents), [Agent Programs](https://www.willo.ai/docs/agent-programs), [Reference](https://www.willo.ai/docs/reference).

## Every area

The areas below follow the dashboard.

- [Start here](https://www.willo.ai/docs/start-here): What Willo is and is not, your first session, what the first build ships, and where to get help.
- [Willo chat](https://www.willo.ai/docs/chat): How a turn runs, what Willo does on its own and what stops for a card, undo, threads, and the memory it keeps.
- [Your site](https://www.willo.ai/docs/site): The site Willo builds, design and brand edits, the draft preview, Publish, and your code on GitHub.
- [Backend](https://www.willo.ai/docs/backend): Tables and schema changes, edge functions, scheduled jobs, access rules, secrets and member login.
- [Content & CMS](https://www.willo.ai/docs/content): Collections and items, drafts and published content, scheduling, and how content reaches the site.
- [Assets](https://www.willo.ai/docs/assets): Uploads, media, storage buckets, what is public, and how images are handled.
- [Business records](https://www.willo.ai/docs/business-records): Goals, roadmap, decisions, documents and the business brief, and how chat and programs use them.
- [Agent Programs](https://www.willo.ai/docs/agent-programs): Programs that run on a schedule, an email or a webhook call: triggers, runs, approvals and limits.
- [Growth Engine](https://www.willo.ai/docs/growth-engine): Content and marketing work, email campaigns and their results, and what it will and will not do.
- [Payments & Shopify](https://www.willo.ai/docs/payments): Stripe Connect, products and checkout, revenue and customers, and the headless Shopify path.
- [Connectors](https://www.willo.ai/docs/connectors): Connecting Google, Microsoft and other accounts, what a connector allows, consent and revocation.
- [Domains](https://www.willo.ai/docs/domains): Custom domains, DNS, branded subdomains, and what happens when a business is renamed.
- [Team & account](https://www.willo.ai/docs/team): Roles, invites, business transfer, login methods, changing your email and deleting an account.
- [Plans & credits](https://www.willo.ai/docs/plans): Plans, pooled credits, what costs credits and what does not, and backend budgets.
- [AI agents & MCP](https://www.willo.ai/docs/ai-agents): Connect Claude Code, Cursor or Codex CLI to your business: tokens, drafts, approvals, limits and security.
- [Reference](https://www.willo.ai/docs/reference): Every MCP tool, limit, token format, error code and the webhook request format, generated from the code.
- [Troubleshooting](https://www.willo.ai/docs/troubleshooting): What to check when something does not work, area by area, and how to reach support.

## For AI agents

An agent connected to Willo's MCP server can read these pages with the `willo_docs` tool. Agents outside Willo can start from [llms.txt](https://www.willo.ai/llms.txt), or fetch every page at once from [llms-full.txt](https://www.willo.ai/llms-full.txt).