DraftBay is open

DraftBay is open. From today, anyone can start a workspace, free for 14 days, with no credit card.

DraftBay is a website content planning tool for agencies, freelancers and small businesses: sitemap, copy, approval and hand-off in one place, for $19 a month per workspace.

Why we built it

We built DraftBay because we needed it for our own website rebuild.

What you can do today

New workspaces start with a filled-in Maple & Oak Coffee sample project. Here's the flow, using that made-up company.

1. Map the site. Build the sitemap as a mind-map or a spreadsheet-style table. When you set up a new project, paste in your page list and DraftBay builds the tree, or import a DraftBay sitemap file. The order of the pages is the order of your menu. Name what launches first and what comes later, so pages planned for after launch stay visible without holding up the first release.

2. Get the copy written. Ask someone to write a page, or a whole section, in one step. For example, Priya is asked to write Maple & Oak's Subscriptions page. She gets an email, writes in Google Docs, SharePoint or Word online, and DraftBay keeps the link. Every page shows whether it has copy, who has it and when it's due.

3. Review and approve. Comment and @mention the person you need, then approve or send it back with a note. Approval is pinned to the version you approved. If approved copy changes, it goes back for approval, and your designer keeps building from the approved version until then.

4. Hand off. Hand approved copy to your designer in one step. Your designer gets a “Your work” list of what to build, each item linked to the approved version, and marks each page built when it's on the site. There's also a one-click spreadsheet with every page, its address, the approved copy link and redirects.

Around those four steps:

• A Board for each project. It lists what's still missing and asks your team clarifying questions, with the decisions needed at the top. Questions close themselves once the sitemap or copy shows they're settled. “Tidy up the Board” clears repeats and settled questions, with a preview first and Undo after. Launch readiness shows how many pages in each website version have approved copy, and what's blocking the rest.
• Ask AI. The assistant answers questions about your project, finds missing pages and copy, and suggests changes, such as handing approved copy to your designer. Nothing changes until you approve it. With a project open, it works only from that project's pages, copy and Board, and what it learns stays with that project.
• Team updates. Send everyone one email with what changed and what's waiting on each person, or schedule it.
• Hand over work. When someone leaves a project or changes role, move their roles and open work to the next person in one step. The new person gets an email saying what to start with, and you can undo it for 30 days.

What it doesn't do yet

• Publishing straight to your website. Connectors for Webflow, Framer and WordPress are coming soon. Today, the hand-off is your designer's list plus the spreadsheet.
• Review links that work without an account. Also coming soon. Today, you invite a client into their own project: they see that project's sitemap, copy, Board and comments, never your other projects or work.

What it costs

• Standard: $19 a month per workspace, billed monthly, with unlimited people and projects. Every workspace starts with a 14-day free trial, with no credit card.
• Founding Members: the first 100 paying workspaces can lock in $7.99 a month per workspace, billed yearly ($95.88), for as long as they stay subscribed. In return, in your first 90 days, you help us test (one short survey, and tell us what breaks) and share two honest posts on your own channels, each clearly marked #ad. Your price never depends on what you say. How the Founding Member program works.

Prices are in US dollars; taxes may apply.

How to start

1. Try the click-through demo on the homepage. No sign-up needed.
2. Start a free workspace. Explore the Maple & Oak sample before you start your own site.
3. Questions? Email info@draftbay.ai. A person reads every message.