Automattic has launched Spacefast, a new company and platform for publishing websites and apps made with AI agents.
Automattic announced Spacefast on Nov. 9, 2026, saying the service is open to everyone and works with AI tools people already use, including ChatGPT, Claude, Muse, Grok Bot, OpenClaw, Hermes and coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Spacefast lets an existing agent publish a project and return a live link in the chat.
According to Automattic’s launch post, Spacefast can provide hosting, custom domain support and a SQL database when a project needs one. It also supports versioned publishes, rollback, privacy settings, an API, a command-line tool and an MCP server. Automattic’s launch post described built-in app authentication as forthcoming. Spacefast’s current plan documentation lists app sign-in in beta.
Spacefast’s own site describes the product as not an AI builder. Spacefast says supported work includes static HTML, presentations, games and apps built through supported Next.js, Astro or TanStack Start paths, with framework requirements handled in its docs.
The owner decides whether the Space stays private, gets a share link, or becomes public. Spacefast’s FAQ says the URL alone does not grant access to a private Space, and search indexing is a separate setting.
Why this is different from a typical AI website builder
The main distinction is that Spacefast does not bundle a proprietary AI workspace as the required starting point. Automattic says customers keep the agent, memory, context and files they already use, while Spacefast charges for infrastructure rather than AI credits. Spacefast also lets collaborators send page-level feedback back to the agent.
TechCrunch, citing an interview with Spacefast founder and CEO Batuhan İçöz, reported that Spacefast sees Automattic’s ability to add web analytics, WordPress integration and WooCommerce-powered ecommerce features as a competitive advantage. That part of the pitch is still early and will depend on how those integrations develop.
Built on Automattic’s infrastructure
Automattic says Spacefast runs on the same infrastructure behind WordPress.com and Tumblr, which it says serves more than 15 billion page views a month. The launch release also says WordPress VIP and Pressable customers can use Spacefast without approving a new vendor because it connects to the sites they already run.
For WordPress agencies, publishers and small business site operators, the Automattic connection is the part to watch. Spacefast is not being presented as a WordPress editor, but it is coming from a company with existing hosting, enterprise WordPress, WooCommerce and publishing products. The likely early use is adjacent to existing sites: prototypes, campaign pages, client previews, dashboards and small internal tools.
Pricing and availability at launch
Spacefast is available now, according to Automattic. The Spacefast pricing page, reviewed on Nov. 12, 2026, lists a Personal plan at $0 with no card required and $1 of included monthly usage. Go is listed at $5 per month. Pro is listed at $15 per month, with the first five members listed as free before additional members cost $15 per month each. Enterprise pricing is custom.
The same pricing page says every plan allows commercial use and that prices are per team, per month, in U.S. dollars before tax. A Boost option, available on Go and higher plans, is listed at $9 per Space per month.
Spacefast’s FAQ also says projects can be published without an account, but anonymous spaces expire unless they are claimed. Claimed spaces stay live until they are unpublished, while unclaimed Spaces normally expire 33 hours and 20 minutes after creation or the latest publish that changes files, capped at 30 days from creation.
What still needs care before production use
The launch makes deployment faster, but it does not remove ordinary production work. Any AI-generated site or app that handles customer data, payments, logins or business-critical workflows still needs code review, security testing, data protection checks, access control review and a clear owner.
That caution is especially relevant for apps that depend on Spacefast’s beta sign-in features. Spacefast does include approval checks for sensitive agent actions such as rollbacks and DNS changes, but approval prompts are not a substitute for reviewing what an agent builds.
The test for Spacefast
Spacefast arrives at a moment when many AI-made projects stall after the first draft. A prototype inside a chat, a local folder or a temporary preview link is hard to govern, easy to lose and awkward to hand to a team or client.
If Spacefast can make that handoff reliable, it could become useful infrastructure for teams experimenting with AI-assisted web work. If it mainly produces faster demos without strong review, security and maintenance habits around them, the value will be narrower. The launch is a clear sign that Automattic wants a role in the agent-built web, not just the traditional CMS market it helped define.
Related: Tech Help Canada’s WordPress review compares hosted WordPress.com with self-hosted WordPress and explains who each option suits.
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