AI models change all the time. What makes a good website does not.

Kubbler was born from a conviction: AI can write a page in seconds, but on its own it cannot keep a website standing for years. While building the product, we asked ourselves seven questions. The answers below are not a sales pitch. They are the decisions Kubbler rests on, the ones that will guide every change to it, and the ones we answer for.

Seven answers, seven pieces. The eighth, on top, is your app.

01 / 07

What is a website?

A website is a system, not a shop window. It works for you, even when nobody is watching.

We often judge a website by what we see of it: a home page, photos, colours. That is the part that shows, and it is the smallest. A website that serves a business takes in customers, bookings or orders, saves data, sends messages, sometimes takes payments. It has to work at night, on Sundays, on the day nobody is looking after it.

It no longer has a single reader. It is read by your customers, by the search engines that decide whether they will find it, and now by the AI assistants that answer in their place. A good website speaks to all three readers at once, without you having to think about it.

That is why we do not sell pages. We deliver applications that hold.

02 / 07

What makes a website perform?

Performance is not generated. It is built, measured and corrected.

A website that performs loads fast, on a customer's phone, on a train, on an average connection. It gets found, because its structure is clear to those who index it. It does not go down, it loses nothing, and it updates without breaking.

None of these qualities comes from generating code. They come from precise technical choices, repeated and verified: what gets loaded and what does not, how a page is prepared, how it is described to search engines. We made those choices once, we measured them, and we correct them when a measurement proves us wrong. Every website built with Kubbler inherits them from day one.

03 / 07

Why a proprietary, industrialised foundation?

What every website has in common, we write once. Then we operate it, and we answer for it.

There are two ways to make a website with AI. The first is to generate everything, every time, from scratch: the code of the pages, but also the code of accounts, payments and security. The result impresses on day one. After that, every site is a one-off prototype with its own flaws, which nobody reviews and nobody maintains.

We chose the other way, the industrial one. Everything websites have in common (accounts and access, data, payments, hosting, backups, updates) is written once by our engineers, tested, then improved for every project at once. That is our foundation. What changes from one trade to the next, your pages, your rules, your image, is built on top.

The foundation is ours, and we stand by that: you can only guarantee what you control. We host it in France, we operate it, and we answer for it. Your data stays yours.

04 / 07

What should be entrusted to AI?

AI gets what can be seen and corrected. Never what cannot be seen.

AI excels where a mistake shows. Turning a need expressed in your own words into pages and journeys, proposing a layout, drafting a first text, translating it: if it gets something wrong, you see it in the preview, and one sentence fixes it.

It is far less reliable where a mistake does not show. A security flaw, a wrongly saved record, a miscounted payment do not appear on screen: they are discovered too late. We do not hand that part to AI. It is written by people, reviewed, and proven on every project.

Even within its own part, AI does not touch your application's code. It changes a plan, which the foundation then builds by its own rules. That is what makes it trustworthy: it proposes, but it cannot break what holds.

05 / 07

What place for humans?

Every decision is made by a person. The one who knows the trade.

AI proposes a plan, and you read it before anything is built. It proposes an edit, and you approve it, rephrase it or set it aside. You decide the day your website goes live.

But you can only decide well about what you understand. That is why Kubbler describes in plain language what every part of your application does: what a button triggers, what a field accepts, what gets saved. You do not need to read code to know what your website does in your company's name.

Your knowledge of your trade, your customers and your rules is what no model has. It is the raw material of your application.

The Kubbler assistant on Zéphyr Montgolfières: the request to add a Frequently asked questions page, Kubbler's reply, then its proposal What I will build, with I change the plan, Parts affected: the site, and the Approve button
A proposal from the assistantNothing is built until you approve it.
06 / 07

And how do we work with AI ourselves?

We work with AI every day. Within rules we wrote.

We use it to write code, to review, to explore leads none of us would have had time to explore alone. It has changed the way we work, and we will not pretend otherwise.

But it works for us the way it works in your project: within a frame. No element of a page bypasses the building blocks of the foundation, no text is hard-coded, no colour escapes the brand guidelines, and automated checks verify it, whether a line comes from an engineer or from a model. Every change to the foundation has a human author who reviews it and answers for it.

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And when AI has changed?

The AI model is a replaceable part. The foundation stays and improves.

AI will change, and fast. Since September, we have already replaced five models in Kubbler. Each time the change took a single line, and no website had to be rebuilt, because a website built with Kubbler calls no model to run: it runs on the foundation.

A product whose whole value is "AI writes your code" competes with AI itself, and every new model catches up with it a little more. Our value lies elsewhere: in a measured, operated foundation, and in the decisions accumulated project after project. As models improve, they compose better on that same foundation. Their progress becomes ours, and every project's.

We will evolve with AI. Never for it.

Evolving with AI means bringing every step forward in models where it serves, into a foundation we hold. Evolving for it would mean rewriting the product with every new model and asking you to keep up. We have made our choice.

Maximilien LentschenerGuillaume Grange
Co-founders of Kubbler

The questions we get.

The foundation's choices are made. Yours start with a brief.