Automattic on November 9, 2026 launched Spacefast as a new company that, it says, gives an AI agent a head start and then puts the resulting website or app online with a private link a team can comment on. The announcement was issued as an Automattic press release on PR Newswire at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time and reported the same day by Ivan Mehta at TechCrunch. People keep working in the AI tools they already use, the release says, including ChatGPT, Claude, Muse, Grok Bot, OpenClaw, Hermes and coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.
Spacefast is led by Batuhan İçöz, whom the release names as founder and chief executive. İçöz joined Automattic through its acquisition of Texts and built the first version on his own during Radical Speed Month, an internal program that gave staff time to focus on a single project. As colleagues joined in, Automattic made the project its own company. TechCrunch, citing an interview with İçöz, says he had been working on Automattic's messaging app Beeper at the time, often received preview links from non-technical friends who were trying out AI-built sites, and first called the project Stattic. The service was soft-launched in September to gather feedback before today's public launch.
The release describes a different approach from AI website builders that ask users to switch to a bundled model and pay for it a second time. Spacefast is meant to work with the agent a person already pays for, supply expert starting decisions and a ready database, then publish a private URL from the chat. Built-in application authentication, transactional email and shared team knowledge, including playbooks, past decisions and brand context, are described as arriving in the coming weeks. Teams can comment on the live page and ask the agent to turn those comments into fixes. Supported stacks named in the release include Vite, TanStack Start, Next.js and Astro. There is also a dashboard, command-line tool, application programming interface and Model Context Protocol server, according to the company's about page.
Spacefast runs on WordPress.com infrastructure, which Automattic says handles more than 15 billion page views a month. WordPress VIP and Pressable customers, the release says, do not have to approve a new vendor and can connect Spacefast to a site they already run. İçöz is quoted saying that AI is turning everyone into a maker and that the web is about to feel like its early days again, full of small personal things people build for themselves, their teams and their friends. TechCrunch notes that the product competes with services such as Lovable and Emergent, but aims to remain more open about which agent the user brings.
Pricing in the release starts with a free tier. Personal plans include one dollar a month of usage for free, with custom domains and a built-in database. The Go plan, at five dollars a month, adds unlimited spaces and more usage. The Pro plan, at fifteen dollars a month per member, adds team features and early access to new capabilities. Enterprise plans are available with custom pricing. Official plugins are listed for Claude, ChatGPT and Grok Bot, and any other agent can connect through the API, CLI and MCP.
The launch language is promotional, and several advertised capabilities are still on the way rather than shipping today. TechCrunch also places the debut against a turbulent period at Automattic, including a brief boardroom fight over chief executive Matt Mullenweg and reported layoffs, context that is independent of the product claims. The existence of the public launch, the named leadership, the bring-your-own-agent pitch and the published price list are established by Automattic's own release and corroborated by TechCrunch's report.