Create a site with AI

Open Sites and choose Create with AI. Describe the site you want in ordinary words, attach anything it should be built from, and choose Create site. Drive builds a first version, publishes it, and opens the site's details page so you can watch the build and carry on editing.

Describe the site

1. Open Sites in the left rail.
2. Choose Create with AI, described as Combine existing content and files.
3. Type what the site is for under What would you like your site to do?. Write it the way you would describe it to a colleague, for example: A one-page site for the Department of Computer Science, with an about section, our four research groups, and contact details.
4. Check Save to. It opens on the place you came from and offers My Drive or any managed folder under Spaces. Set it before you create: everything else here can be undone, but a site made in the wrong place has to be made again.
5. Choose Create site.

The button stays unavailable until a destination has resolved. Preparing My Drive beside Save to means Drive is still setting up your personal area; it clears on its own.

Attach images and documents

Add images or documents attaches the material the site is built from: the pictures it should show, and the documents whose words it should be written from. A CV, a set of notes or a programme outline all work.

• Up to six files, each at most 4 MB, and at most 4 MB in total.
• Images: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, webp.
• Documents: pdf, docx, csv, md, txt.

Each document carries a checkbox reading Offer name on the site as a download. Leave it unchecked to use the document only as source material for the words on the page; check it to also publish the file for visitors to download.

Watch the build and open the result

Creating the site takes you to its details page. The side panel lists Build steps and reports the one running:

1. Setting up your site
2. Building your site — the long one; it can take a few minutes
3. Publishing the first version
4. Naming your site — the name comes from the page that was written, so the site is called Untitled site until this step finishes
5. Generating the public link

The panel reports Completed in with the time the run took, then a Summary of what was built.

The build runs in this browser tab. Moving around Drive while it runs is fine — it follows you, and the site's details page keeps reporting it — but closing the tab or reloading the page stops it. Coming back to a build that was stopped that way, the panel reads This build stopped before it finished. and Try again restarts it.

The site is published as soon as the run finishes, and it holds a public link that grants read access to anyone who has it and expires after 30 days. See Share a file or folder by link before you send it on.

Change it afterwards

The site is an ordinary site once it exists. Use Edit with AI on its details page to describe the next change, or Edit site to work on the files yourself, and publish when you are happy with it. See Change a site in plain English.

If it did not work

• The site could not be created. means the site record was never made. Nothing was filed. Try again from Sites.
• The site could not be built. appears in the side panel when the build itself failed. Try again re-runs it against the same description; Delete this site removes the empty site it left behind.
• This build stopped before it finished. means the tab running the build was closed or reloaded before it ended, so nothing finished it. Use Try again.
• The public link could not be made. means the site exists and is published but has no public link yet. Make one from the item's actions; see Share a file or folder by link.
• One of those files could not be read. Remove it and try again. names an attachment Drive could not open. Remove it and attach a supported file.
• To publish a site you already built yourself, see Upload a site.