My old website ran on WordPress for more than ten years. It served me well, but in 2026 it became clear that a classic relaunch – agency, requirements document, months of back and forth – is no longer the way to do this. So I set up the project the way I now set up almost everything: AI-first, with AI agents, steered by me.
What AI-first actually means for a website relaunch
AI-first does not mean an AI presses a button and you are done. It means AI agents take over the executing work while I steer direction, taste and quality: I brief, give feedback, decide and sign off. The agent researches, builds, tests and deploys – at a pace that classic project structures simply cannot match.
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For the relaunch of dennis-weidner.com, that meant in concrete terms: the complete migration from WordPress to a lean, fast static website. All content, every blog article from more than ten years, the photo archive, the contact form, a self-built newsletter system with double opt-in. Plus the invisible but decisive things: clean redirects for all old URLs so no Google ranking gets lost, structured data for search engines, email deliverability with SPF and DKIM, load-time optimisation.
The details make the difference
One example that surprised even me: the original publication dates of my old blog articles were initially lost in the migration. The AI agent reconstructed them via the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine), article by article, including a check of whether any images had gone missing in the move. Nobody would have paid for that kind of meticulous work in the past – which is exactly why nobody would have done it.
Just as important: mistakes still happen, and they surface faster. Broken redirect chains, cached stylesheets, a regression bug after a URL change. The difference from a classic project is not the absence of errors but the speed at which they are detected, fixed and verified. Minutes instead of weeks.
Why I believe this is the future of entrepreneurial projects
With The Agentics I work exactly at this frontier: agentic engineering – AI agents doing real work in real systems, from web projects to our own product Slabhit. This website relaunch was the field test in our own house, and it confirmed the claim: online faster, better tech than ever before, full control over every line, at a fraction of the usual cost.
My recommendation to every founder and entrepreneur still running an outdated website in 2026: treat this not as an IT project but as a leadership task. Brief, steer, sign off – the agents handle the execution. Once you have worked this way, you never plan projects in months again.
This is exactly what I will be writing about here regularly: what works, what breaks, and what it means for your business. If you want to know what the AI-first approach could look like for your project: get in touch – or subscribe to the newsletter below and simply follow along.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you build a website with AI agents?
AI-first does not mean an AI presses a button and you are done. AI agents take over the executing work, while the human steers direction, taste and quality: briefing, giving feedback, deciding and signing off. The agent researches, builds, tests and deploys, at a pace that classic project structures cannot match.
How do you migrate a WordPress website with AI agents?
For the relaunch of dennis-weidner.com, the complete site moved from WordPress, where it had run for more than ten years, to a lean, fast static website: all content, every blog article, the photo archive, the contact form and a self-built newsletter system with double opt-in. The invisible parts are decisive: clean redirects for all old URLs so no Google ranking gets lost, structured data for search engines, email deliverability with SPF and DKIM, and load-time optimisation.
How can you recover lost publication dates of old blog posts?
Through the Internet Archive. When dennis-weidner.com moved, the original publication dates of the old blog articles were initially lost, and the AI agent reconstructed them via the Wayback Machine, article by article. Along the way it checked whether any images had gone missing in the move. Nobody would have paid for that kind of meticulous work in the past, which is exactly why nobody would have done it.
What are the benefits of a website relaunch with AI agents?
Online faster, better tech than ever before, full control over every line, at a fraction of the usual cost. Mistakes still happen, such as broken redirect chains, cached stylesheets or a regression bug after a URL change, but they are detected, fixed and verified in minutes instead of weeks. That is why a relaunch is not an IT project but a leadership task: brief, steer, sign off, and the agents handle the execution.
Note: AI tools supported me in writing this article, and some images were edited with AI. I stand behind its content and every statement with my name.
Yours, Dennis Weidner
