WordPress company opens platform for publishing AI-built sites

If you've had an AI build a small website or app, the next challenge awaits: How do you get it onto the web? Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, wants to help with a new service called Spacefast.

Spacefast had a soft launch around September 22-23, 2026, when Matt Mullenweg announced it on X. The public launch was on November 9, 2026. The service is set up as a new company under Automattic, and Batuhan İçöz leads the project.

What the service offers

Spacefast provides the technical features behind an app that AI-built code often lacks: database, login, file upload, email and analytics. Spam filtering is handled by Akismet, and the service uses WP Cloud and Automattic's CDN.

It can be connected to agents and chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Grok Bot and several others. There is also Git integration. Users can publish via an AI agent, drag-and-drop upload, Git or the command line.

Projects are organized as "Spaces," which are private by default. They can be static or dynamic sites, use custom domains and frameworks such as Next.js and Astro. Changes are versioned, so users can roll back.

The first publish requires no account. Anonymous Spaces can be claimed within six hours and moved into teams. Login is via email, WordPress.com, Google or GitHub.

Pricing

According to Spacefast's website, there are four tiers: Personal is free with a $1 monthly credit, Go costs $5 a month, Pro costs $15 a month and includes team features, and Enterprise is priced individually. During the soft launch, the tiers were instead Free, Go and Plus, so the prices may have changed since.

Up against Lovable and Emergent

TechCrunch positions Spacefast against competitors such as Lovable and Emergent. The point is that it is not tied to one AI model or one coding tool, so users can bring their own agents.

In TechCrunch, İçöz says: "I thought there had to be a better way for everyone to set up their projects and publish them." He also points out that the problem for companies right now is shadow IT sprawl, because marketing teams create sites on competing products.

Automattic plans to add WordPress integration and WooCommerce e-commerce to Spacefast. At the soft launch, Mullenweg described what the team was working on as "the future of WordPress and AI."

The launch comes in a turbulent year for Automattic, with Mullenweg's removal and return as CEO, changes on the board, a CFO who has left, and major layoffs.