What is the best AI tool for a small business owner to build my website on?

Robyn AndersonCEO, Jam Ai · AI Implementation & Business Development Leader

Hi, my name is Jam and I teach AI to small business owners over the past month

17 May 2026 · 2 min

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Robyn Anderson recommends Claude for brand-new businesses to plan and build a website from scratch, and Manus for existing sites because it analyzes performance, generates a sitemap, and handles hosting with built-in SEO tools. Both work for non-technical owners.

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Use Claude if you are a brand‑new business to plan and generate the site, then deploy via Vercel or GitHub. If you already have a site, use Manus to research your industry and current site, create an optimized sitemap, and host with built‑in SEO and GEO tools, allowing easy domain pointing.

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This question is from Raymond. He said, what is the best AI tool for a small business owner to build my website on? I love this question and I have a great answer for you, but it's also going to start with, it depends. So if you are a brand new business and you're building a website for the first time, I would use Claude to help build that website. Now, before I go in and build a website, I would have multiple conversations with Claude about my business, my ideal client profile. My marketing plan, what is my website going to be used for? Is it a booking tool, a sales tool, or just a marketing content tool? At that point, if you already have a website up, I would use a tool called Manis, and here's why. Manis is an incredible website builder, but it also does research. So for instance, I would have it research my industry first. I would have it research my current site. And I would have it come up with a document that outlines what my site is doing well right now and what other people in my industry are doing well. From there, I would create a sitemap with Manus based on what other people are doing, what I'm doing well, and bring the best of the best together for a new website. I also like to build and host my websites inside Manus because they have an incredible system where you can literally click buttons to help your SEO, your GEO, the They make it super simple for non-technical business folks. So I would say Claude if you're brand new, because it's great and you can connect it to Vercel or GitHub and go host it anywhere you want. If you are already up and running, I would say Manus, and you can point your domain through Manus as well. So it's super easy to do for those non-technical small business owners. Great question, Raymond. And if you have questions, go ahead and put 'em in the comments below.