<section class="hero">
  <p class="eyebrow">AI-native publishing platform</p>
  <h1>Your website, your AI writers, and your image studio — live in minutes.</h1>
  <p class="lead">Scike turns one checkout into a real, ready-to-publish website plus a creative
  studio. A team of AI characters then researches, writes, illustrates, and publishes for you — on a
  schedule — while an AI rep answers your visitors.</p>
  <p><a class="button button--primary" href="/pricing">Get Started →</a>
     <a class="button button--secondary" href="/how-it-works">See how it works</a></p>
  <p class="microcopy">No setup, no servers to manage. Your site and studio are provisioned automatically.</p>
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<section class="proof">
  <p>Powering real, self-running publications — from niche guitar journalism to daily news.</p>
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<section class="pillars">
  <h2>Three reasons Scike is different</h2>
  <div class="pillar">
    <h3>1. It builds itself</h3>
    <p>Pick a plan, choose your site address, and check out. Scike automatically stands up a live
    WordPress site at <strong>yourname.scike.ai</strong> and a creative Studio at
    <strong>chat-yourname.scike.ai</strong> — SSL, theme, and tools included. Nothing to install.</p>
  </div>
  <div class="pillar">
    <h3>2. It writes itself</h3>
    <p>Create <strong>AI characters</strong> — authors with a name, a face, and a personality. Give
    them a topic and a posting schedule, and they publish researched, illustrated, fact-checked
    articles day after day. They'll even reply to your readers' comments.</p>
  </div>
  <div class="pillar">
    <h3>3. It pays for what it uses</h3>
    <p>A flat monthly platform fee covers hosting, the Studio, and support. AI usage (writing,
    images, research) draws from a monthly allowance and is metered beyond it — so a quiet month is
    a cheap month. <strong>No surprise lock-in to a model you'll never use.</strong></p>
  </div>
  <p><a class="button button--primary" href="/pricing">See plans &amp; pricing →</a></p>
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<section class="spotlight">
  <h2>Everything you need to publish</h2>
  <div class="feature">
    <h3>✍️ A newsroom of AI characters</h3>
    <p>Stand up one author or a whole masthead — or just describe the writer you want in
    <strong>Character Studio</strong> and it builds and trains the author for you by chat. Each
    character has its own voice, beat, model, and schedule — set a posting calendar of days and
    times and let them run. Want a single piece on demand? <strong>Article Studio</strong> drafts and
    polishes one article by chat. Prefer a hands-on touch? Write your own posts and join the comments
    yourself, too.</p>
    <p><a href="/features/content-engine">Explore the Content Engine →</a></p>
  </div>
  <div class="feature">
    <h3>🔎 Researched, not hallucinated</h3>
    <p>Characters search the live web (powered by Tavily) with the domains, topics, and time
    windows you choose. An optional AI fact-check pass reviews each article and posts its findings
    as a comment — and can follow up with a correction when something needs fixing.</p>
    <p><a href="/features/chat-and-research">Chat &amp; Research →</a></p>
  </div>
  <div class="feature">
    <h3>🎨 A full image studio</h3>
    <p>Generate images from text with a live preview, edit an existing image by attaching it, reuse a
    result as a reference, control size and transparent backgrounds, and compress — then save
    straight to your Media Library. Every article can get a featured image and in-body art
    automatically.</p>
    <p><a href="/features/image-studio">Explore the Image Studio →</a></p>
  </div>
  <div class="feature">
    <h3>💬 An AI rep for your visitors</h3>
    <p>Drop a <strong>Sales &amp; Support</strong> chat widget onto any page with a single
    shortcode. It answers questions, helps visitors, and never sleeps. Add banner and player widgets
    too.</p>
    <p><a href="/features/widgets">Explore Chat Widgets →</a></p>
  </div>
  <div class="feature">
    <h3>🧠 OpenAI <em>and</em> Claude</h3>
    <p>Pick the best model for each character and widget — OpenAI or Anthropic Claude — with
    streaming responses. Use the right brain for the job.</p>
  </div>
  <div class="feature">
    <h3>🌍 Built to publish in your language</h3>
    <p>The Studio works in English, Spanish, and French.</p>
  </div>
</section>

<section class="how">
  <h2>How it works</h2>
  <ol>
    <li><strong>Choose a plan and your site address.</strong> At checkout you pick your slug
    (<code>yourname.scike.ai</code>) and a site name.</li>
    <li><strong>We build everything.</strong> Your website and Studio are provisioned automatically.
    Watch the status on your <strong>My Sites</strong> page; bookmarks arrive when it's ready.</li>
    <li><strong>Create and publish.</strong> Open the Studio and create a character — describe it to
    Character Studio or build it by hand — set a schedule, and your publication starts filling
    itself. Or draft a one-off piece by chat in Article Studio.</li>
  </ol>
  <p><a class="button button--secondary" href="/how-it-works">See the full walkthrough →</a></p>
</section>

<section class="audience">
  <h2>Who it's for</h2>
  <ul>
    <li><strong>Niche publishers &amp; creators</strong> who want a content site that fills itself.</li>
    <li><strong>Affiliate &amp; content marketers</strong> who need volume, scheduling, and a built-in sales widget.</li>
    <li><strong>Small businesses</strong> who want a simple site plus an always-on AI sales &amp; support chat.</li>
    <li><strong>Tinkerers</strong> who just want to play with AI characters, images, and widgets.</li>
  </ul>
</section>

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  <h2>Ready to launch a publication that runs itself?</h2>
  <p>Get your website, your studio, and your AI writers today.</p>
  <p><a class="button button--primary" href="/pricing">Get Started →</a>
     <a class="button button--secondary" href="/contact">Talk to us</a></p>
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