The AI business creator
WPMaven vs Shopify
Shopify gives you a store and waits for you to fill it. WPMaven gives you the business: the products, the photos, the words and the store, built in a minute and run every week by an AI team, with no fee on your sales.
Free to build · $1 for your first week, one time only · No card to start
Why owners pick WPMaven
- You start with an idea, not a catalog: products, photos and descriptions are made for you.
- The work after launch is done every week: posts, videos, emails, and a Monday report with next steps.
- You see your business built before you pay anything.
- No fee on your sales, whichever payment provider you use.
With Shopify, you still have to
- Pick a theme and build the store yourself.
- Add every product, photo and description by hand.
- Write and post the marketing every week, or pay someone to.
- Pay Shopify an extra 2% per sale on Basic if you use a processor other than Shopify Payments.
Side by side
Their facts come from their own pages, checked in August 2026
| WPMaven | Shopify | |
|---|---|---|
| What you start with | One sentence. Your AI team builds the site, the pages, the words and real products or bookings, with prices and images. | A theme from more than 200. You bring the products, the photos and the words. |
| After launch | Your team runs it every week: posts, videos, pages and emails, planned from last week's numbers. | Tools and sales channels. The weekly work is yours, or someone's you pay. |
| Selling | A real store or booking flow, with checkout on your own WooPayments, Stripe or PayPal account. | A full commerce platform with checkout, inventory and orders, which you run. |
| Fees on your sales | None. We take nothing from your sales. | Up to 2% extra per sale on Basic when you use a processor other than Shopify Payments, falling to 0.2% on Plus. |
| Approval before anything goes public | Nothing goes public until you approve it, with one tap on WhatsApp or in the dashboard. | Nobody acts on your behalf, so every post and every change is yours to make. |
| Try it first | Watch your business get built and try it in your browser before you create an account. No card. | Three days free, then $1 a month for three months, while you build it yourself. |
| What you pay | Free to build. $1 for your first full week, one time only. Then from $39 a month, billed monthly, or yearly with 2 months free. | Basic is $25 a month, or $19 billed annually. Grow is $65 or $49. Advanced is $399 or $299. Prices vary by region. |
| What you are left with | Open-source WordPress, so your content is portable and yours to export. A site we host stays live for 14 days after you cancel, then comes down. | Hosted on Shopify's platform. |
| Readable by AI | Every site publishes your products, prices and what you do in a form AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity can read, and your weekly report shows how often they read it. It is set up for you, not a plugin to buy. | Its Agentic Storefronts can show your products inside ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity. |
A store does not sell itself
Shopify is a strong store. But someone still has to write every product, shoot every photo, post every week and read the numbers. On Shopify that someone is you, or an agency you pay. On WPMaven it is your AI team, included from $39 a month, with nothing taken from your sales.
What you get with WPMaven
A team of AI operators with real jobs, from a Co-CEO who plans your week to a Content Writer, an SEO Specialist, a Social Media Manager and an E-commerce Manager. They build a real WordPress site, stock it with real products, connect payments on your own account, and keep working every week. Every Monday the report lands on WhatsApp with what happened and what comes next.
Nothing goes public until you approve it, and we take nothing from your sales. WPMaven is built by Yotako, the award-winning Luxembourg team behind Figma to WordPress, used by more than 100,000 designers.
Where WPMaven is going
WPMaven is a business creator, and it keeps growing. Today your team creates and runs any business that lives on the web: shops, bookings, courses, memberships, listings and donations. Next, the same team will build apps and custom software for businesses that need more than a website.
You stay in charge
Your AI team runs the week; you decide what the business is. Every post waits for your yes, every payment goes straight to your own account, and the site runs on open-source WordPress, so your content is portable and yours to take with you.
Shopify facts from their own pricing and help pages, checked 21 August 2026. Prices are region dependent; the figures above are the US dollar page. We check these pages when we notice something has changed, and if you find something out of date here, tell us and we will fix it.
One team, any business you can describe
Every business below is built and run by the same AI team, on the same plan. The plugins that make each one work are installed for you, and each one is free to start.
Shops and makers
- A jewelry maker selling pieces while she makes the next one.
- An apparel brand whose shirts are printed and shipped on demand.
- A coffee roastery selling direct instead of through wholesale.
Appointments and jobs
- A barber whose chairs fill from a calendar clients can see.
- A pet groomer with repeat bookings and reminders running themselves.
- A handyman whose quote requests become scheduled, paid work.
Food and hospitality
- A restaurant taking its own orders, not paying 30% to a platform.
- A guest house selling rooms by the night, never twice.
- A home bakery with pre-orders and pickup slots.
Teaching and coaching
- An online school with lessons, quizzes and student progress.
- A coach selling programs booked and paid up front.
- A paid community where what members pay for stays behind the login.
Listings and marketplaces
- A marketplace where other sellers list and the owner takes a cut.
- A local directory of listings other people submit.
- A niche job board where employers post and candidates apply.
Property and home goods
- Property listings with photos, search and an inquiry form.
- A furniture and home-goods store with made-to-order deposits.
- A florist with same-day local delivery.
Creators and digital
- Digital planners and templates that sell while you sleep.
- Art prints and posters printed and shipped on demand.
- A niche publication that keeps writing and publishing on schedule.
Causes and events
- A charity taking one-off and recurring donations, with receipts.
- Events and workshops with dates people can book.
- A freelance portfolio that turns a visitor into an inquiry.
What one sentence becomes
Every site below was built by WPMaven from a sentence or two. Hover to see the whole page, click to see how it was built.
Build one and decide afterwards
Describe the business you want in a sentence and watch the team build it. Free, no account, no card, and it takes about a minute.