How to hand an AI-built website to a non-technical client
Build it with your AI agent, let the client review it, publish it to their domain, and hand them a visual editor they can use without code or AI.
The short answer
- Build the site with your AI agent over MCP, or in the visual editor. Everything stays in a draft.
- Send the client a review link. They click any spot and leave a note, no account needed. You resolve the notes from your dashboard.
- Publish to their domain: attach it, add the DNS records, and SSL is issued automatically.
- Invite the client as an editor. They change text, images, and sections in the visual editor, with no AI and no code.
The handoff, step by step
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Build it in a draft
Tell your agent what the client needs, or build it yourself in the editor. Every change your agent makes lands in a draft, so nothing is live while you work.
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Review before you hand it over
Send the client one review link. They open it, type their name, click anything on the page, and leave a note pinned to that spot — no PageHub account. You read, reply, and resolve each note from Dashboard → site → Review.
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Publish to their domain
Attach the client's domain, add the DNS records PageHub gives you at their registrar, and SSL is issued automatically. Later edits still wait in a draft until you publish again.
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Hand over the editing
Invite the client as an editor. They change text, swap images, and move sections in the visual editor, with no AI and no code. Pro and up include unlimited editors per site, with no per-seat charge.
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Keep it safe afterward
Drafts and site history mean a client can't break the live site — restore any earlier version in a click, and nightly backups run on top. If they get stuck, your agent can jump back in through MCP.
It works in real handoffs
Sites built on PageHub and handed to the people who run them.
- 25 minutes, start to finish. The Goalposts site went from nothing to published in 25 minutes.
- Clients editing their own sites. Sam, a home-exteriors contractor, started adding to his site himself after the handoff, and was surprised how easy it was.
- No AI required. Joel works on his site in the editor without touching AI at all.
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Keep your agency's brand
On the Agency plan, the handed-over site is the client's, not PageHub's.
- The live site runs on the client's domain, with their logo and name, and no PageHub badge.
- Site emails, like receipts and sign-in links, go out with the client's name on them.
- The editor and review links still open on PageHub; embed the SDK to put the editor under your own brand.
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Questions about handing off a site
What people ask before they give a client their own site to run.
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