How BeanSpell Works

Welcome to the BeanSpell blog. This is where we’ll write about BeanSpell itself — how it works, how each feature works, and how to get the most out of it as we keep building. We’re starting simple and adding more over time.

Let’s start with the basics: how it actually works.

You probably already use Claude or ChatGPT for something. BeanSpell doesn’t ask you to leave that and learn a new tool — you connect BeanSpell to the Claude or ChatGPT you already have (a one-time setup), and from then on you can ask it to build you a site.

Once it’s connected, ask your assistant directly — something like “Can you build me a website for my studio using BeanSpell.” Describe your business, what you do, how people can reach you, and mention any design or style preferences you already have. From there, it builds an actual site: colors, fonts, layout, real pages, decided for you rather than picked from a template. Images work the same way — use your own photos if you have them, or it can find suitable ones from Unsplash if you don’t.

Here’s the part that’s easy to miss: because it’s your Claude or ChatGPT doing this, not some separate walled-off tool, it can bring in whatever it already knows. If you’ve talked to it before about your work, your style, your plans, it doesn’t start from zero — it’s continuing a conversation with something that might already have context on you.

It builds a first draft and gives you a preview link, so you can see exactly how it looks and click through it yourself.

You’re also not locked into one version. If you want to see a completely different theme, or try the copy written a different way, you can ask it to create another version instead of overwriting what you already have — then compare them side by side. Preview links are just links, too: share one with a business partner, a friend, anyone, and ask which one they’d pick.

From there, you talk through changes the same way you asked for it in the first place: “make the header bigger,” “I don’t love that color,” “add a page for services.” No new interface to learn for edits either — still just a conversation.

When you’re both happy with it, it publishes for real, live at a beanspell.site address of your own — something like yourbusiness.beanspell.site. It doesn’t have to stay there: whenever you’re ready, you can connect your own domain instead, and the site will live at that address.

That’s deliberately the short version. There’s more to say about how it makes design decisions, what a published site can actually do, and — new as of this week — what happens when you ask it to add a blog. We’ll get into those one at a time.