Your website should run itself.

Ariana is the self-running CMS that creates, publishes, optimises, translates and maintains your website — automatically, on your schedule, under your control.

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Self-hosted No required plugin stack Runs on ordinary hosting

What Ariana does

A CMS that does the work — not just a place to do it.

Seven capabilities, each performed in Ariana’s own interface. You decide what it is allowed to do — Ariana does the rest.

Act I — The AI Assistant

A CMS you can simply talk to.

Tell Ariana what you want, in any language — “write an article about winter tyres and publish it”, “add Spanish to the site”, “design me a theme from this brand book”. The Assistant runs every task in the panel through one conversation, and proposes a plan first: nothing happens until you review it and press Apply.

Understands and answers in any language
One chat drives the whole panel — content, settings, themes
Every applied change is snapshotted — revert with one click

yoursite.com/admin — Assistant

Write an article about winter tyres and publish it.

Proposed plan

Draft “Winter Tyres: The Complete Guide” (~1,200 words)
Set cover image & smart summary
Publish in Guides

Review & Apply ✓ Snapshot taken — one-click revert

Act II — Auto Pilot

Give Ariana the job once.

Most AI tools help when you ask them something. Auto Pilot is built for work that needs to happen again.

Set the objective
Set the rules
Set the schedule

1 · Give Ariana a recurring job

New Auto Pilot job

Every Monday morning, create a useful article for our blog, optimise it for search, create the cover image, translate it into Spanish and publish it.

2 · Ariana turns it into an Auto Pilot

Weekly Content

Every Monday · 09:00

Create article
Optimise for search
Create cover image
Translate
Publish

3 · You leave

Signed out. Nothing left open.

The job is saved. Ariana does not need you in the room.

4 · Monday arrives

Monday

09:00

Weekly Content is due. Ariana starts on its own.

5 · Auto Pilot runs — watch the cover being drawn

6 · The article is live — this is your website

Guides

Winter Tyres: The Complete Guide

Published 09:06 6 min read SEO 96 Spanish ✓

7 · The activity history

Weekly Content

Run #1 — Monday 09:00 → 09:06

Article created09:00
SEO completed09:02
Cover created09:03
Translation completed09:05
Published09:06

Act III — Smart WordPress Import

Switch in an afternoon. Arrive better than you left.

A few clicks migrate your entire WordPress site — articles, authors, media, even Yoast and Rank Math settings — with every old URL kept alive. And while your content travels, the AI optimises each article and upgrades its SEO, so the site that arrives is stronger than the one that left.

Zero lost URLs — Google rankings stay intact
Content optimised & SEO upgraded in transit, by AI

yoursite.com/admin — Import

Act IV — AI Podcasts

Every article can become a conversation.

One button turns a post into a podcast-style episode — two AI hosts discussing it in its own language, or a single narrator reading it. The player sits above the article, or exactly where your theme puts it. And it runs on shared hosting: no queue worker, no FFmpeg required.

Two hosts in discussion, or one narrator — your call
Cards get an Audio badge automatically

yoursite.com/blog — Audio edition

Two AI hosts discussing this article — Episode 12:04

12:04

Generated by Ariana — in the article’s own language

Act V — Theme & Skill Contracts

The only CMS that documents itself for AI.

From the running installation, Ariana writes two contracts: a Theme Contract with every token this exact version understands, and a Skill Contract with every rule a new feature must follow. Hand them to an AI — it builds your theme, or a whole new feature — and Ariana validates every line before install. The site you are reading, and its website value calculator, were built exactly this way.

Two living specs — for themes and for skills — straight from the engine
Broken themes and skills are rejected before anything breaks

theme-contract.mdskill-contract.md

# generated from the running installation
# Ariana 1.69 · themes + skills · this site only
{{ post.summary_box }}      ✓ valid
{{ post.podcast_player }}   ✓ valid
{{#each menu.main.items}}   ✓ seeded
{{#each languages}}         ✓ 6 locales
{{ skills.buildworth.url }} ✓ linked
"slug": "booking"           ✓ namespaced
"requires": ">=1.69.4"      ✓ matches
skill_booking_* tables      ✓ prefixed
$context->t('title')        ✓ 6 languages
exec($cmd)                  ✗ refused
<title>…</title>            ✗ rejected

Both contracts pass — safe to install

Act VI — Performance

The easiest way to a 98+ score? Ariana.

Green numbers on PageSpeed and GTmetrix usually cost weeks of tuning. With Ariana they are simply what comes out of the box: no plugin pile, no render-blocking build output, deferred scripts, preloaded fonts, responsive lazy images and full-page caching — performance as architecture, not as an afterthought.

98+ on PageSpeed & GTmetrix — no optimisation plugin
Core Web Vitals green on ordinary shared hosting

pagespeed.web.dev — yoursite.com

PageSpeed · Mobile GTmetrix · A

Act VII — The SEO Analyzer

SEO that rewrites, not just scores.

One button reviews the article exactly as it sits in your editor and produces a measurably better version — scores before and after, every change shown old-against-new, applied only when you approve. And the basics were never your job: canonicals, Open Graph, JSON-LD and hreflang are written by Ariana itself.

Before/after scores you can verify
Meta, OG, JSON-LD, hreflang — always automatic

yoursite.com/admin — SEO Analyzer

Before After

title winter tyres post (draft 2) Winter Tyres: The Complete 2026 Guide
meta description some notes about tyres… Everything drivers need before the first frost — tested picks, prices and fitting.
og:image alt image1.jpg Studded winter tyre on a snow-covered road

In production

Websites are already running on Ariana.

Nine real sites, live today. Hover any card to travel its complete home page — then click through and meet it in person.

Built in, not bolted on

Everything you’d otherwise pay a developer for.

All features

Rich results on Google, without a developer

Products, events, recipes, job postings, courses — fifteen schema.org types, filled in as ordinary fields on any page or article, with a share card for social posts. An entry missing what Google requires is held back, never published broken.

New features install like apps

A booking system, a member area, a calculator — each arrives as one signed package, checked line by line before it goes live. If one ever fails, Ariana switches it off, never your site.

A cover for every article

Graphist turns an article’s title into a photographic cover and files it in your media library — free up to a daily allowance, or through a paid provider when you need more.

26 languages, one URL each

No cookies, no sessions, no client-side switching — a page’s address is its language, so caches keep working and search engines see exactly what visitors see. RTL is native.

Every enquiry lands in your inbox

The contact form speaks the visitor’s language and filters spam without a CAPTCHA, and every message is saved in the panel before the e-mail goes out. Need a booking or quote form with an upload? Your theme adds the fields; Ariana validates, stores and sends every one.

Backed up every night. Updated from the panel.

Every file and the whole database, every night, with one-click restore and a safety copy taken first — even without cron. Updates install from the panel, with a backup and a rollback for every file.

Find broken pages before Google does

Site health checks every public address and counts it by its answer — working, redirected, missing or failing — with the exact addresses one click away. Switch on the weekly sweep and it keeps watching for you.

26languages, one URL each
100+tokens in the Theme Contract
0plugins required for any of it
24/7unattended publishing on Auto Pilot

BuildWorth

Every website has a number. Yours too.

See what it would cost to rebuild your website. Paste an address and Ariana measures the page against Google’s own metrics, then turns what it finds into hours and money.

A technical score, built from four PageSpeed categories
A rebuild estimate in hours, at an open-market rate
The issues worth fixing first, with the evidence

Free · no account · about a minute

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