Edit your site by asking your AI
Most website edits never happen — not because they're hard, but because they mean logging into a builder you half-remember and finding the one screen that controls the thing. On a bernard-hosted site, the edit happens where you already are: in a chat with your own AI. You describe the change; it does the work; you approve the result.
How the whole loop works
- Get your access prompt. Log in to bernard, open your site, and copy the prompt from Edit with AI. It contains a key that works for 12 hours, covers only your site, and can never publish anything.
- Paste it into your AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whichever you already use — then ask for what you want in your own words. The AI reads your site, makes the changes on a draft, and writes a plain-English note for each one.
- Approve. The AI sends back a preview link — your site, exactly as it would look. If it's right, press Approve and it's live. If it's not, reject it or ask the AI to adjust, and the live site never changes.
Several requests in one sitting all gather on the same draft, so you can fix the phone number, add a photo and reword a paragraph, then approve the lot together.
What you can ask for
Anything that's part of the site. Fix what's wrong — My phone number is wrong, a typo, an old address. Show new work — Add a new product to my shop page, a new painting, an exhibition announcement. Build something — Start a blog on my site, a new page, an FAQ. Change how it feels — fonts, colours, layout, tone. Be found — better page titles, image descriptions, your town on the right pages. If you'd ask a webmaster for it, ask your AI; the only things off the table are scripts, bookings, payments and login areas, because bernard sites are script-free by design.
The safety story, in one paragraph
Nothing the AI does touches your live site: every change lands on a draft, and only your Approve — pressed on the preview page, signed in to your account — publishes it. The access key expires after 12 hours, works on one site only, and is revoked the moment you mint a new one. Scripts are stripped on every write, so nothing executable can ever be slipped in. And bernard keeps a full year of history, so any change, made in that year can be put back. The worst case, always, is a draft you decline.
The prompt
“Have a look at my site and tell me what you could improve — then wait for me to choose.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Log in to bernard → your site → Edit with AI → copy your access prompt, paste that into your AI first, then ask the above.
Questions people ask
- Can I really edit my website just by talking to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini?
- Yes — if your site is hosted with bernard. You give your AI a short-lived access key from your bernard dashboard, ask for the change in plain words, and it does the work. Nothing goes live until you check a preview and press Approve.
- Do I need a website builder or any technical skills?
- No. There's no dashboard to learn and no theme settings to hunt through — the conversation is the interface. If you can describe the change to a person, you can describe it to your AI.
- What kinds of changes can the AI make?
- Anything that's part of your site: words, images, pages, menus, fonts, colours, layout. It can't add scripts, bookings, payments or login areas — bernard sites are deliberately script-free, which is part of why they're fast and safe.
- What if it gets something wrong?
- You'll catch it on the preview before anyone else sees it — reject and ask again. And bernard keeps a full year of your site's history, so even approved changes can always be put back.