For as long as businesses have had websites, there have been two ways to change one. You could learn the software the site was built on: WordPress, a page builder, a theme panel with forty settings. Or you could email your web company and wait for the ticket to come back. Most owners pick the second, which is why so many websites still show last year's hours.
Jarvi is a third way. It's the AI website editor built into every site WebJIVE builds and hosts, and it's why we think the way websites get delivered is about to change. (If you've worked with us before, you may know it by its old name, AI Site Manager.)
What Jarvi is, and what it isn't
Jarvi is an AI editor, not an AI website builder. It doesn't spin up a template site from a prompt. We still design and build your website with you, page by page, the way a custom site should be built. Jarvi is what you use after launch, every time something needs to change.
When you open it, it greets you with one line: "Welcome to Jarvi, your AI website editor. How can I help?" From there, you type the change the way you'd say it out loud.
How an edit works: say it, see it, publish it
- Say it. "Change our Saturday hours to 9 to 2." "Swap the photo on the About page for this one." "Add a page for our new drain-cleaning service."
- See it. Jarvi makes the edit on a private preview of your real site, so you see exactly what visitors will see before anyone else does.
- Publish it. Happy with it? Publish in one click. Not quite right? Tell Jarvi what to adjust, or discard the change.
Updating a phone number or your hours takes seconds, and the change appears on every page where that information shows up. There's no page builder to learn, no plugin to install and no ticket to wait on.
Why the mini-CMS makes this possible
An AI editor is only as good as the website underneath it. Point one at a typical WordPress site and it has to work around a theme, a page builder and a stack of plugins, each with its own settings and its own updates.
Jarvi works on sites built on WebJIVE's mini-CMS. There's no WordPress, no page builder and no plugins. Every page is a clean, real file with clearly named sections for the header, the content and the footer. Jarvi edits those files carefully, the way a developer would, so everyday changes don't pile on the plugins and page-builder code that slow a site down.
For a deeper look at the platform itself, see our overview of the mini-CMS.
The proof: real sites, measured this week
This website is one of them. The demo in the video above is web-jive.com. It runs on the same mini-CMS and the same Jarvi editor we deliver to clients.
Little Rock Montessori School moved from WordPress to the mini-CMS this month. Its homepage's mobile PageSpeed score went from 63 to 99 at launch, and desktop went from 83 to 100. Every one of the old site's 110 page addresses still works. Read the Little Rock Montessori case study.
Across the platform: we ran Google PageSpeed on six live mini-CMS sites this week, taking the median of three runs for each. All six scored 100 on desktop, and five of the six scored between 91 and 96 on mobile.
- web-jive.com: 91 mobile, 100 desktop
- Little Rock Montessori School: 96 mobile, 100 desktop
- Generations Auto Glass: 93 mobile, 100 desktop
- Apex Lawn Care: 96 mobile, 100 desktop
- ArkansasDWILawyer.com: 92 mobile, 100 desktop
Because Jarvi edits the same clean files instead of adding plugins, a site stays built for speed as it changes. See more of our work in our case studies.
What changes for business owners
- No ticket queue. Small changes happen when you think of them, not when a developer has time.
- Nothing to learn. If you can describe the change, you can make it.
- Nothing breaks overnight. There's no plugin update that quietly breaks a form, and no theme update that restyles the homepage while you sleep.
- Your leads live with your website. Every contact-form submission is saved in Jarvi's Form Submissions area, and you get a branded email for each new lead.
- You own it. Your website is a finished set of pages you own, not software you rent.
What stays with us
Jarvi handles the everyday changes, but you're not on your own. We still host and back up your site, and we still build the big things with you: a redesign, a new line of business, a campaign landing page. Jarvi simply means the everyday changes are yours to make, on your schedule.
How to get Jarvi
Jarvi comes with every website WebJIVE builds and hosts on the mini-CMS. If you're planning a new site, or you're tired of fighting the one you have, see how a custom website with Jarvi works, or call us at 501-588-1979.