Master builder

Sites, funnels, stores, and markets. One document. Hands on, or fully Grok.

The closed tools rent you a canvas. The open ones give you a pile of plugins. Anvil is the piece in between: a visual editor you can drive yourself, an AI copilot that writes the same JSON, unlimited sites, and a VPS you actually own.

Open a workspace Walk the demos

What we kept from the field

Closed source taught the jobs. Open source taught ownership. Anvil keeps both.

Closed

ClickFunnels / GoHighLevel

Open

Funnelish, CartFunnels

Linear journeys: opt-in, offer, checkout, upsell, downsell. Anvil stores that as pages with next/down, not a maze of URLs.

Closed

Shopify / SamCart

Open

Medusa, Saleor, WooCommerce

A catalog, a cart, a bump, a receipt. Products live on the document so a store is still a site you can edit.

Closed

Wix / Squarespace / Framer

Open

Webstudio, GrapesJS, WordPress

A visual canvas with layers, theme tokens, and sections you can rearrange by hand — or hand to Grok.

Closed

Sharetribe

Open

Sharetribe Flex (open APIs)

Vendors, categories, places, booking. Marketplace is a site kind, not a second product.

Four live documents

Published demos — a studio site, a cohort funnel, a digital store, a town market. Cart and forms write to the same database your workspace uses.

site

Lumen Studio

Editorial brand site. Framer / Squarespace calm, WordPress depth.

Framer · Squarespace · WordPress

funnel

Summit Cohort

Opt-in, offer, checkout, upsell. ClickFunnels without the maze.

ClickFunnels · GoHighLevel

store

Forge Digital

Digital shelf and checkout. Shopify + SamCart in one document.

Shopify · SamCart

market

Portage Market

Vendors, places, booking. A Sharetribe-style floor.

Sharetribe · Shopify

Yours to host

Node 22, Postgres, one process. Email/password accounts for anyone you invite. Point Grok at the xAI API — or your own gateway — with an env var. No GPU. No site cap.

Unlimited sites

Every account owns its own rows. Invite someone else; they start empty.

Hands and AI

The copilot writes the same document the layers panel edits.

Leave anytime

Export JSON. Import it on another Anvil. The file is the product.