Feature · The Hybrid Design Engine

Designed by humans. Populated by AI.

Most AI website builders generate a blank page and let a model fill the whole thing — bones and content. Avago is the other way round. Every site starts on a template a human designer built, and the AI's job is the one it's actually good at: writing your copy into it. Designed sites that don't look designed by a machine.

32Human-designed templates
~94sAI population time, average
0Tokens spent designing layouts
Hybrid Design Engine — Avago
The shape of the problem

Three ways to make a website right now. We picked the third.

AI website builders, no-code drag-and-drop, and Avago's hybrid model each make different trade-offs. Here's where each one actually breaks.

Approach 01 · Pure AI

AI builds the whole site. Layout, copy, the lot.

One prompt in, a finished site out. Sounds great — until you notice every site has the same five sections, the same tone of voice, the same component library. Looks AI because it is AI.

What breaks · Every site looks the same
Approach 02 · Blank canvas

You're the designer. Drag, drop, configure.

You get full control of layout — which is great if you're a designer, ruinous if you're a florist. The page is empty until you fill it, and your weekend disappears into it.

What breaks · You become the designer
Approach 03 ·

Humans designed it. AI fills it with your story.

Pick a template a designer built. Avago reads your Google Business, your Instagram, your old site — and writes your menu, your services, your hours into it. The bones are crafted; the content is yours.

What you get · Designed sites, your content
What's included

Why hybrid wins. Four practical reasons.

It's not just an aesthetics argument. The hybrid model produces faster, more accurate, more maintainable sites — and you keep the editing keys.

01 · Design fidelity

Pixel-grade layouts, every time.

Templates are hand-built in the same editor you'll use. Spacing, type, contrast, accessibility — all decided by a human before the AI gets near them. No 'the model invented a header that's 23px tall'.

  • WCAG-AA contrast pre-checked
  • Type scale set by a designer
  • Mobile breakpoints hand-tuned
02 · Content accuracy

Your copy, not a hallucination.

The AI never invents facts about your business. It only rewrites what it reads from your source (Google Business, Instagram, your old site, a description). If you didn't say it, it isn't there.

  • Source-locked copy generation
  • Original sources cited per block
  • One-click 'rewrite this' on any line
03 · Editing fluency

Click anything, change anything.

Because the layout is template-based, every block is a known component. You can change a heading, swap a section, reorder a page — no rebuild, no re-prompt, no waiting.

  • No re-prompt to edit
  • Section library available immediately
  • Undo history across the whole site
04 · Future-proof

Built on an open stack, not a black box.

When you publish, your site is real, standard HTML/CSS. If you ever want to leave, you take a normal website with you. No proprietary AI rendering layer to migrate off.

  • Standard HTML/CSS output
  • Same platform as 1M+ live sites
  • Open code, full export
How it works

How the Hybrid Engine actually works. Behind the curtain.

Three stages from your input to a populated, editable site. The first and the third are humans. The middle one is the AI doing the part it's good at.

A designer builds the template.

Templates aren't generated — they're hand-built by an in-house designer in the same visual editor you'll use. Each one ships with a full type scale, brand-safe colour slots, eight section variants and pre-set mobile breakpoints.

AI populates from your source.

Paste a URL — Google Business, Instagram, your old site — and Avago reads your business name, services, hours, photos, reviews and tone. Then it writes your copy into the template's slots, matched to the template's voice.

You take over in the editor.

Within ~90 seconds you're inside the editor with a populated site. Click any block to change it. Add sections from the library. Replace any image. The AI stays out of the way until you want it back.

Inside the editor

The AI's job ends. Yours begins.

Once the site's populated, the experience is a proper visual editor — not a chat box. Drag sections, edit text inline, swap images, change colours. The AI is there if you want it, hidden if you don't.

Visual editorSection libraryInline AI per blockUndo historyMobile preview
Hybrid Design Engine · showcase
FAQ · 5 short answers

The questions we get about hybrid design engine. Most weeks.

What does 'hybrid' actually mean?

Two halves. The first half — the template, the layout, the components, the design system — is built by a human designer. The second half — your content, your copy, your hours, your menu — is written by AI from your existing sources. You get human design quality with AI content speed.

Can I use Avago without any templates and let the AI build from scratch?

No, and that's the point. We don't believe AI is good enough at design yet, and we don't want to ship sites that prove it. Every Avago site starts from a human-designed template. There are 32 today, and new ones get added every week.

Can I edit the template after the AI populates it?

Yes — fully. The output is a normal, standards-based site, editable in the visual editor. You can rearrange sections, add new ones from the library, replace any block, change any word. The AI doesn't lock anything.

What if the AI writes something wrong about my business?

Every block sourced from a URL is tagged with where it came from. If something's off, click the block, see the source, and either edit it directly or click 'rewrite' to regenerate from a different source.

What if I want to make a template myself?

Avago for Agencies includes the template editor — same tool our designers use. You can build a template once and have it auto-populate for every client you onboard.

The rest of the platform. One click away.

All features →

Have an idea? Just have a go.

Your website is waiting to be built. No credit card. No commitment. Free to build — only pay when you're ready to go live.

Free to build~5 min to liveNo credit card