# Build your own website with an AI assistant

> Use Wheewise as the backend for a website you own: live vehicles, enquiries and test-drive requests, with no database of your own.

Source: https://www.wheewise.com/docs/ai-build-your-website

You can have a private website on your own domain, built by an AI assistant, with **Wheewise as its backend**: your live vehicles appear on it, and enquiries and test-drive requests from it arrive in your **Leads**. You host the site anywhere; there is no database to set up.

## The quick way

1. [Connect an AI assistant](https://www.wheewise.com/docs/ai-assistant-setup) with a token that has **Allow changes** on.
2. Ask: "Use the build_private_website prompt for https://myshop.com", or describe the site you want (style, pages, framework).
3. The assistant reads your shop, creates the **site key**, allows your website's address, builds the site and connects its forms. It will tell you how to run and publish it.
4. Open your site, send a test enquiry, and check it appears under **Leads** in the dealer app.

## Two different keys

| Key | Looks like | Where it lives | What it can do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Assistant token | `wwd_…` | Only in your assistant's settings. **Never** in a website. | Manage your shop through the MCP server, as far as its scope allows. |
| Site key | `wws_…` | In your website's code. It is safe there. | Read your **published** vehicles and send leads. Nothing else. |

## Allow your website

A browser may use your site key only from websites you list. In **Settings, AI assistant access, Your own website**, enter each address exactly as in the browser bar, one per line, for example `https://myshop.com`. Add `http://localhost:3000` while you build. Until a website is listed, browsers are refused. The assistant can do this for you with `set_site_allowed_origins`.

> The list stops other websites' browsers from using your key. A script outside a browser can send any address, so the real protection is that the key can only read published listings and create leads, plus rate limits and a spam trap.

## A starting point

A complete working site (vehicles, search, vehicle pages, enquiry and test-drive forms, no build step) is in the [example folder on GitHub](https://github.com/Wheewise/wheewise-mcp/tree/main/examples/private-site). Put your site key in `config.js`, allow its address, and open it.

## What leads look like

- An **enquiry** carries name, phone, email, an optional message and optionally a vehicle.
- A **test-drive request** also carries the vehicle and the time the visitor would like. It shows a **Test drive** badge in Leads. It is a request; you confirm the time with the visitor yourself.
- You get a notification, up to five an hour; further leads are still saved.

For the endpoints and fields, see the [Site API reference](https://www.wheewise.com/docs/site-api-reference).