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A new website should not mean starting from nothing

An AI builder can produce a convincing new homepage before lunch. It cannot know which forgotten PDF still brings customers, which translated page matters in Sweden or which old URL has earned years of links. We built Sitejump because creating the new website has become easier while moving the real one is still painstaking work.

Publication date
September 10, 2026

The hard part is not the blank page

A company website is rarely one neat set of pages. It is years of service copy, campaign landing pages, images, documents, language versions, metadata and links from elsewhere. Some of it should disappear. Some of it is still doing valuable work. The platform may be old without the information being obsolete.

That is why a visual redesign and a migration are different jobs. A new layout can be approved in days; deciding what moves, where it goes and which addresses must keep working takes evidence. Skip that work and the missing pages usually surface after launch, when customers or search traffic find them first.

A good prompt is not a migration plan

AI builders such as Lovable, v0 and Replit let a business shape layouts, components and features in natural language. Marketing can test an idea directly, inspect the result and involve a developer when the work becomes technical. That is a meaningful shift from editing only the fields a CMS happens to expose.

But an AI builder can only use the context it receives. Ask it to “rebuild our website” from a URL and it may produce something polished while dropping a language, replacing precise copy with filler or overlooking a useful document. Starting quickly is not the same as moving completely.

Give the AI builder evidence, not guesses

Sitejump audits the public website and turns its pages, assets, languages, visual details, metadata and links into structured migration material. A compatible AI builder can access that material through MCP, a standard way for an AI tool to use approved external sources. The builder starts with an inventory of the real site instead of a blank prompt and a handful of screenshots.

The same evidence supports the redirect plan: each useful old address needs a deliberate destination. Redirects help people and search engines find the replacement content, although no tool can promise unchanged rankings. Private areas, forms, databases and custom integrations also need separate technical review because a public crawl cannot describe everything behind them.

Know what to keep before deciding to move

A useful migration decision starts with three lists: what must survive, what can be retired and what needs specialist rebuilding. Moving is attractive when routine changes queue behind suppliers, CMS dependencies consume attention or the business cannot inspect and export its own project. Staying is sensible when the current system is lean, well run and gives the team enough freedom.

That test shaped Sitejump. The free audit shows what the existing public site contains and what a move would involve. If the case is strong, the migration package gives the chosen AI builder organised source material for the rebuild. People still approve the content, test the result and handle complex functions—but they no longer begin by rediscovering their own website.

See what your website would take to move

A free Sitejump audit maps the public pages, assets, languages and search details that an AI builder would need. You can see the scope before deciding whether migration makes sense.