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Your first session

Sign up, describe your business, choose how Willo starts, and know what you'll have when the first build finishes, usually 5 to 15 minutes later.

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Your first session takes about a quarter of an hour, most of it Willo working while you watch or step away. At the end you have a live website, a brand, a plan and a business you can keep building in chat.

1. Sign up

Go to willo.ai and sign up with Google or your email address. There is no password: Willo signs you in with Google, or with a link and a one-time code it emails you. You start on the Free plan, with no credit card.

2. Describe your business

Write what you want to build in a sentence or two: what it is, who it's for, and anything you already know (a name, a price, a city). Willo works from this, so specifics help.

You'll see two tabs: Start a new business and Migrate an existing site. If you already have a site and want it brought across, choose Migrate an existing site and see Migrate an existing site. Migration is open to every account, in Beta.

3. Choose how to start

  • Build it now. After up to two optional questions, Willo researches the market, creates a brand and builds a first version of the site.
  • Plan with Willo first. Willo asks a few questions in chat to sharpen the plan. Then it shows the plan on a card, and you choose how much to build and approve it. On paid plans the card can offer a full site build of many pages in one run.

If you're unsure, plan first. A few answers up front save rework later.

4. Watch the first build

Willo does several things at once: research, naming and brand (for a new business), the documents that set your direction, a roadmap, and the website itself. The chat shows each step as it happens, and documents appear as cards you can open. It usually takes 5 to 15 minutes, and Willo emails you when it's done, so you can close the tab.

What the first build ships lists what you get for each kind of business.

5. Look at what you have

When the build finishes you're on the Site page: the chat on the left, a live preview of your site on the right. Things to do first:

  • Click through the site in the preview, on desktop and phone sizes.
  • Fix wording you don't like with Edit text (the T icon in the edit tools floating at the bottom of the preview). It's free.
  • Adjust colors and fonts in the Brand drawer (the paintbrush icon, in the same toolbar). Also free.
  • Ask Willo for anything bigger: "add an FAQ section", "the about page should tell our story", "make it feel warmer".
  • Read the roadmap under Business → Roadmap to see what Willo plans next.

What costs credits

Chatting, asking questions and reading are free. Work that produces something, such as research, a new page, a redesign or an email campaign, uses credits from your plan. The Free plan starts with a one-time grant. See How credits work.

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