Briks in plain words

#Words you will see

• Credits: What the AI work is paid in: building a site, making a change, an agent's task. A new site holds 50 credits while it builds and a change holds 5. Each is charged for the work it took, what it does not use comes back, and a request that fails costs nothing. You start with 50 free credits. See credits and plans.
• Brief: What you write to say what you want built: who it is for, what it offers, how it should feel and which pages it needs. Plain sentences are enough, up to 25,000 characters. See writing a good brief.
• A site you like: A website you show Briks when you start, so your site follows its layout, spacing, type and motion, with your own words. One per project, and you can add screenshots too. See build from a site you like.
• Look: How your site appears: its colours, typefaces, corners and buttons. Briks designs it from your brief and any site you like. For a new website without a site you like, you can switch on Choose the look from three directions to see three looks with your own words and pick one. See pick a look.
• Publish: Putting your site online. Every build and change is published to your site's own briks.live address, first as a preview that search engines are asked to leave out. Publish to production makes it public in full, after a launch check. See preview and production.
• Versions: Every build and change is saved as a version. You can undo, redo or restore any of them, and the site is published again as it was. See versions, undo and redo.
• Agents: AI helpers you can hire for a live site, from the Starter plan. Each has one job, such as replying to customers, writing posts or checking security, and asks you before anything goes out unless you let it act on its own. See hire AI agents.
• Workspace: Your shared space in Briks, with its own projects, plan and credits. You can invite people into it, each with a role: Owner, Admin, Editor or Viewer. See workspaces.
• Domain: Your own web address, such as yourbakery.com. You can connect one from the Starter plan. Every site also keeps its own briks.live address. See connect your domain.

#What you do not need to worry about

• Hosting. It is part of every plan, free included. Your site is online as soon as it is built, and hosting is never paid in credits, so a live site stays online whatever your balance. See preview and production.
• Certificates. Every site is served over https, the padlock browsers show. When you connect your own domain, Briks gets its certificate and renews it for you, at no extra cost. See connect your domain.
• Backups. Every version of your site is kept on every plan, so a change can be undone. On a paid plan you can also switch on nightly copies of your site's records, each kept for 30 days. See backups.
• Security checks. Before a build or change goes live, Briks reads the code written for your site for the mistakes that most often leak data, and holds back a change that would load scripts from other websites. A key pasted into a message by mistake is cut out before the message is kept, when Briks knows its kind. See secrets.

#Your first site in five steps

#If something goes wrong

• A request that fails costs nothing. Its credits come back in full.
• You changed your mind mid-build. Stop ends a running build before it publishes, so the site stays as it was, and you pay only for the work done until then.
• You do not like a change. Undo it. Going back to an earlier version publishes it again as it was, with no credits held.
• A build waits for credits. A build that usually takes more credits than you have stops once it is planned, and the plan is kept until you press Resume building. It never carries on by itself.
• You are stuck. Troubleshooting covers the common problems, and you can always write to hello@briks.dev with what you were trying to do.