ChatGPT Sites turns a prompt into a hosted website or small web app that you can preview, publish and share without touching code or hosting. The build is the easy part. What decides whether it's useful is picking the right job, writing a good brief, and publishing to the right audience. Here's how.
Is Sites the right tool?
| Good fit | Use something else |
|---|---|
| Dashboards, trackers, calendars and reports | Health records or card data. Sites must not process them |
| Prototypes and interactive explainers | Payments handled by the site itself. Use a third-party processor |
| Simple personal or project sites | Complex backends, private networks or unsupported frameworks |
| Internal tools for your workspace | You're in the EEA, UK or Switzerland, where it isn't available at launch |
Where to start
- Plans: public beta on Plus, Pro and ChatGPT workspaces. Not available on Free or Go, or in the ChatGPT Classic app.
- Where: Work on ChatGPT web, or Work or Codex in the desktop app.
- Trigger: include the word "website" in your prompt, or mention @Sites.
The build brief
A vague prompt gets a generic template. Answer these first and the first version lands much closer:
@Sites Build a website.
Goal: [what a visitor should do or understand]
Audience: [who opens it, on what device]
Pages and sections: [list]
Content: [attach files, paste copy, add links. Don't let it invent facts]
Interactions: [filters, forms, calculators, quizzes]
Style: [2-3 adjectives, colors, and one site whose feel you like]
Don'ts: [no stock testimonials, no placeholder stats, nothing I haven't provided]
Before building, ask me anything that would change the result.
The Don'ts line matters most. It stops made-up testimonials and numbers from ending up on a live page.
Six builds worth trying
| Build | Why Sites fits | Share with |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio or link page | Your content, your structure, live in an afternoon | Anyone on the internet |
| Event or launch page | A date, an agenda and a sign-up form in one place | Anyone, after you've reviewed the form |
| Interactive proposal | Clients change scope or timeline and see the trade-offs | Named external viewers |
| Dashboard from a spreadsheet | Upload the file and get filters and charts | Only you, or your team |
| Team tracker or portal | Lives inside your workspace | Anyone in the workspace |
| Quiz or interactive explainer | Teaches by doing, not by reading | Anyone on the internet |
Edit without breaking the live site
Every deploy goes to your live URL. Review changes in the preview first:
- Ask for changes in the same chat, or open the Site from Sites in the sidebar and select edit.
- Be specific: "move pricing above the FAQ and make the CTA button full width on mobile," not "make it better."
- Save a version and review the preview.
- Deploy only after you've checked it on your phone.
Before you publish
- Pick the audience. New Sites start private to you and workspace admins. Options include selected people, named external viewers, your workspace, or anyone on the internet.
- Open it as a visitor. Check it from the account or device your audience will use.
- Review every form. If it collects names, emails or messages, you're responsible for that data.
- Remove anything confidential, including content you don't have the right to share.
- Custom domain: you need to own the domain and add the DNS records Sites gives you. It doesn't register domains, and custom domains aren't available in Enterprise workspaces at launch.
- Deleting is permanent. To take a Site down temporarily, restrict access instead.
Limits worth knowing
- Beta usage limits apply across all your Sites. At the limit, you may not be able to create new Sites or keep a high-traffic one public.
- Editors can publish. A workspace member you give Can edit can publish new versions without the owner approving them.
- Training follows your data controls. On personal plans, the chats where you build a Site can be used for training while Improve the model for everyone is on.
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