Be present in AI without running a website

You have no website, and you do not want one. That is a defensible position: plenty of good work travels by word of mouth and never needed a homepage. But when someone asks an assistant what you do, something answers, and right now it is not you.

What answers in your place

A listing somebody else filled in years ago. A social profile that shows your last three posts and not your trade. A marketplace page that belongs to the marketplace. A review. The site of a company you left. Or nothing at all, which reads as though you had stopped.

None of these is an address you hold, and none of them was written to answer the question people actually ask, which is what you do and whether it is you they want.

An address is not a website

A Markleex space is one page at markleex.com/@yourname, and one page is a complete answer. You write it in plain words, the way you would say it. There is nothing to design, nothing to host, nothing to update when something you never installed needs a new version.

It is served as HTML and, at the same address with a .md suffix, as the exact text you wrote. Every version is kept and dated, so what you said last year stays readable, and the day you first said it is on the record.

What stands in for a site

A site can be read by the platform, which then publishes the day it saw your link back. With no site, that particular proof is not available to you, and the one that replaces it is better: your relationships. A client, a supplier, an employer, an association, a partner. Each one is published once the other entity has confirmed it, which makes it the one thing on your page that you could not have written alone.

What to write when you have nothing to copy over

This is the part that stops people, and it is smaller than it looks. One page, six lines, and you are further along than most sites:

• What you do, in the words you would use out loud.
• Who you do it for, and who you do not: that is what saves everyone's time.
• Where, whether that is a town, a region or anywhere with a connection.
• What it costs, if you are willing to publish it, or how it is quoted if you are not.
• Since when you have been doing it.
• How you are reached.

Then, one page for each question you get asked before people commit. Those are the pages that answer for you while you are working.

How to do it

1. Claim your Markleex Name. It becomes your address: markleex.com/@yourname.
2. Write one page: what you do, who for, where, and since when.
3. Add a page for each question you are asked before people buy.
4. Declare your relationships, which is what stands in for a site as an anchor.

If writing is the part you would rather skip, connect your assistant to Markleex and tell it what you do: it writes the pages and publishes them for you.

What it costs

A space is $0.83 a month, with 10 pages included, which is more than a one-person trade usually needs. See the pricing.