How to Build a Website with Claude and Mondovo

You want a website for your business, and you'd like Claude to do the heavy lifting. Ask it straight out and you'll probably get a neat block of HTML or a React file. But that isn't a website yet. It has no address, no hosting, no working forms and no history of what changed.

Connect Claude to Mondovo and it can gather your brief, plan the pages, show you three designs, make your edits and publish a real hosted site, all from the conversation, with you making the calls that matter. Here's how to connect it, what to type, and how to fix the usual snags.

Before you connect

Prepare a short, factual brief:

• business name, location and the area you serve;
• the services or products you actually offer;
• who you serve, and the one thing you want visitors to do;
• checked contact details, opening hours, prices and booking rules; and
• any existing website, or a site you like, that you want Claude to look at.

Don't ask Claude to guess your address, a qualification or a price. Ask it to flag what's missing instead.

The connector works with any Mondovo plan, including Free. Whether Claude can read, create, edit or publish depends on your Claude plan, connector availability, your workspace's rules and the permissions you grant.

Costs are further down. In short: you can build, edit and preview on Free, going live needs Pro, and you don't need the Agency add-on, which is for API access and white-label agency work.

Step 1: Connect Mondovo to Claude

Mondovo's connection guide with Claude selected, as it looked on 21 October 2026. Menus and plan requirements do change.

1. Open Mondovo's connection setup page.
2. In Claude on the web, go to Customize → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web. (Older Claude screens call this Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.)
3. Enter a name and paste the connector address Mondovo shows: https://app.mondovo.com/api/mcp/sites.
4. Continue through the sign-in settings Claude detects, choose how you want to sign in, and finish the connection.
5. Sign in to Mondovo, pick the workspace you want Claude to use, and review the permissions.

Keep Anthropic's connector setup instructions open while you do it. Anthropic says remote custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise, with Free users limited to one custom connector. The connection comes from Anthropic's cloud, so the server has to be reachable over the public internet. On Team or Enterprise, an admin can restrict the connector or individual tools.

When you sign in, look at what you're granting. Site access, source access, contacts, Creative Studio and the content calendar can be separate permissions. Connect one Mondovo address only. If a plugin adds the same connector, keep just one active so Claude doesn't see every tool twice. You can disconnect any time from Claude's connector settings or Mondovo's connected-app settings.

Where to check what

Step 2: Start with a plan, not a design

Claude's best first job is turning your facts into a plan you can check. Try something like:

Use Mondovo to plan a website for Cedar & Stone Landscaping in Portland, Oregon. We provide planting design, maintenance and small hardscape projects for homeowners within 20 miles. The main action is “Request a site visit.” Use only those facts plus this contact information: [paste verified details]. First show the page list, service names, assumptions and missing facts. Don't create designs until I approve the plan.

Mondovo's build skill asks for a business brief, fills in only what it can work out, asks the rest in a quick back-and-forth, and then creates three designs from the plan you approved. Let Claude show you its assumptions. Telling it you want "premium" or "friendly" sets the style. It doesn't settle what the site claims, so read any review, guarantee or figure before it goes live.

Step 3: Compare the designs, then edit the right thing

1. Approve the content first. Get the pages, services, locations and main button right before you spend time on looks.
2. Look at all three designs. Ask Claude what's different between them, and open the previews on desktop and phone.
3. Ask for one precise edit at a time. Name the page, the element and what you want. For example: On Home, keep the existing copy but change the hero background to a lighter stone colour and make “Request a site visit” the only primary button. Apply that bounded edit and show me the exact change.
4. Know your safety net. Mondovo records site changes and lets you restore an earlier version. That rolls back the website only, not an email sent, credits spent or a billing change.
5. Publish after one last look. Try: The approved design is ready. Publish it to the confirmed Mondovo address and tell me the returned URL. Do not connect a custom domain or send any campaign.

Publishing only happens when you ask for it. Hosting and SSL are handled for you, but registering a domain and the DNS work at your registrar are separate. Campaign emails go out from the Mondovo app, never quietly from Claude. Social posts can sit as drafts until you queue them. Creative Studio shows its credit cost before it makes anything, and those credits are separate from builder voice minutes.

Prompts for everyday upkeep

• List every factual statement on the services page that is not supported by my brief. Do not edit yet.
• Patch the contact page’s button text to “Ask about availability.” Preserve the form fields and show the exact before-and-after copy.
• Read this week’s enquiries and summarize the themes. Do not reply, tag or export anyone until I approve a specific action.
• Draft five calendar posts from the approved maintenance page. Keep them as drafts and flag any claim that needs a source.
• Show me the current page titles, descriptions and canonical URLs. Suggest changes without applying them.

Ask for a clear "yes" before anything that publishes, sends, bills or spends credits. For small, clear edits, say what you want and check the result. Claude's own permission settings can allow a connector, ask for approval each time, or block it, and on Team or Enterprise an admin can set stricter limits.

Free or Pro?

Free is enough to try the whole workflow: build, refine as much as you like, and share a preview with anyone. Its 50 Creative Studio credits arrive once, in your first month, and don't renew. Pro is how you go live, on a custom domain or a mondovo.co address. In the US, your first live site is covered by the $20 a month Pro charge, and each extra live site adds $20 a month. Registering the domain is a separate cost, and the exact currency, term, tax and limits depend on your billing country, so check the pricing page for the account that'll pay.

Claude's access can still differ from your Mondovo access: a managed workspace might allow reading but block changes. If Claude can't edit or publish, use the Mondovo app or ask your workspace owner. Calling Mondovo's API from your own software is a separate Agency add-on feature. Connecting Claude doesn't include it.

When Claude hands you code instead

Ask Claude to "write a React site" and you may get a perfectly good file that nobody's hosting. You'd still need a deployment target and, depending on the site, settings, a domain, SSL, form handling, updates, accessibility checks and a recovery plan. If you're a developer who wants to own that, fine. If you want a looked-after site with version history and publishing, use the connector.

Why I'd build it on Mondovo

"Claude wrote me some code" was never the finish line for a small business. Here's what the connection gets you that a code file doesn't:

• A plan and three real designs with your own content, so you choose between finished sites. Up to ten designs can sit on one site, and switching the live one is a click.
• The working parts are built in: forms with an enquiry inbox, bookings, an online store, contacts, email and social posts.
• Nothing to maintain. No plugins, updates or backups to manage. Pages publish as static files from a global network.
• Moving an existing site? Paste its address. Mondovo reads your pages, text, images, logo and colours, and redirects your old page addresses to the closest new ones.
• Building and editing are free. Free lets you share previews; Pro, at $20 a month, puts a site live on your own domain or a mondovo.co address, with hosting and SSL.

Create a free Mondovo account, connect it in Claude, and paste the landscaping prompt above with your own business in it.

Fixing common connection problems

Claude can't find the connector

Open Customize → Connectors and check the connector is connected and switched on for this conversation. Check the address, the Mondovo workspace you picked, and which Claude account is signed in. Free users can only have one custom connector, and Team or Enterprise admins can hide connectors or tools.

Sign-in works, then a tool fails

Reconnect and review the permissions. Make sure your Mondovo role can work on that workspace and site. A connector can be there while one action isn't, because the workspace rules, Claude's controls or the Mondovo permissions don't include it. Being able to read doesn't prove you can edit or publish.

The site looks right but has a wrong fact

Stop before publishing. Ask Claude to compare the copy with your brief and list anything it can't back up. Correct the fact, then ask for a targeted edit. Version history can undo a bad change, but it can't make a wrong fact safe to publish.

Related reading

Next, see the platform overview, pricing and limits, the connector documentation, how to do this in ChatGPT, the affordable website builder comparison, the AI website builder guide and what a website costs.

Steps, menus and prices checked on 21 October 2026. Claude's menus, plan availability and workspace controls change, and so can our pricing, so check the live screens before you rely on them.

Frequently asked questions

Can Claude build a website?

Claude on its own writes code, which you'd still have to host. With Mondovo connected, it can plan the site, build three designs, make edits and publish a hosted site, as long as your Claude plan and workspace permissions allow it.

Which Claude plans support the Mondovo connector?

Anthropic says remote custom connectors work on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise. Free users are limited to one custom connector, and Team or Enterprise admins can restrict connectors or tools.

Do I need a paid Mondovo plan to use Claude?

No. The connector works on any Mondovo plan, including Free, which lets you build and preview. You need Pro, $20 a month in the US, to put the site live.

Will Claude publish my site or send emails without asking?

Publishing only happens when you ask for it, and campaign emails are sent from the Mondovo app, not from Claude. Social posts can stay as drafts until you queue them.