Open Claude Voice, explain your business the way you'd tell a friend, and let Claude interview you until it has a plan. Then it builds a one-page site from that plan, with your photos in it. About 20 minutes of talking. The prompts, the photo fix, the checklist, and how to get it online are all below.
Every plan has it, Free included. Anthropic's own help page lists Voice on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise, on the desktop app, the phone app and claude.ai in the browser. It's still labeled a beta, so if yours looks different from the table, check your plan settings and update the app.
Open the Claude desktop app. Start a regular new chat (a plain chat, you don't need Cowork for this). Look at the lower right corner of the box where you type. There's a small sound wave icon next to the send arrow. Click it and start talking. Click it again when you want to go back to typing.
Do this on your computer, not your phone. Step 4 needs you to drop a folder of photos into the chat, and that's a drag on a computer and a chore on a phone.
The talking part goes fast. The part that stalls people is scrambling for photos halfway through. Set these up first.
maria-headshot.jpg, studio-1.jpg. Claude reads the names, so a name like IMG_4821.jpg tells it nothing.Click the sound wave icon and say this. You can read it word for word. Or paste it into the chat box first, send it, and then click Voice to answer the questions out loud. Both work.
I run [what you do, in one sentence] for [who you do it for]. I want a one-page website. Interview me until you have a design plan for my website and a brand direction, then write the plan. Ask me one question at a time and wait for my answer. Start with what I do and who it's for. When you have enough, say "I have enough" and stop asking.
What it's going to ask you. Roughly this, in this order. Knowing the questions ahead of time makes the answers come out better.
How to answer. Talk the way you'd explain your business to a friend at dinner. Real numbers, real client moments. Claude can only put on the page what you say, so a vague answer gets a vague site.
I do bookkeeping for small businesses. I'm detail-oriented and I care about my clients.
I do monthly bookkeeping for restaurants with 1 or 2 locations. Owners find me after a scary letter from the state, or when they haven't looked at their numbers in 6 months. I've done this 11 years. I want them to book a 20 minute call.
Say: "Keep interviewing me. Don't build anything yet." It will go back to questions. This happens more on the smaller model.
When Claude says it has enough, don't let it build from memory of the conversation. Make it write the plan down, in the chat, as one document. That written plan is what the build step reads. It's also your record if the chat gets lost.
Write the full website plan in the chat as one document. Include: the headline in one line, what I do in 2 sentences, who it's for, my 3 proof points, the sections in order from top to bottom, the exact words on every button, the colors and fonts, and which of my photos goes where. Nothing vague. If a section needs words, write the actual words. Use only what I told you. If you need something I didn't say, put a question in brackets instead of making it up.
Now read it. Out loud if you can, since you'll catch more. Anything wrong, say so right there: "the headline should say restaurants, not small businesses." Anything in brackets, answer it. When the plan reads like your business, you're ready to build.
Select it, copy it, paste it into a note. If the chat ever disappears, or you want to redo the site in a month, you paste the plan into a new chat and skip the interview.
Click the sound wave icon to end Voice. You're typing from here. Drag your photo folder onto the chat box (or click the paperclip and pick the photos), then paste this.
Build the prototype from the plan above as a static site. One page, one HTML file with the CSS inside it. No frameworks, no login, no database, no form that needs a server. A button that opens an email to [your email] or links to [your booking link] is the contact. Use the photos I attached, in the spots the plan says. Do not use placeholder images or stock photos. Make it look right on a phone first, then on a laptop. Plain fonts, white or off-white background, one accent color from the plan. Keep the order from the plan: headline, what I do, who it's for, the 3 proof points, photos, contact. When you're done, tell me in 2 lines what you built and anything you couldn't do.
A static site is a page that sits there and shows what's on it. No login, no account, no database behind it. That's all a one-page business site is. Say those 2 words and Claude stops trying to build an app around your website. Less to break, for you and for Claude.
Claude builds it in a panel on the right side of the chat (Claude calls that panel an artifact). You can scroll it, click the buttons, and drag the panel narrower to see how it looks on a phone. Change things by typing: "make the headline bigger," "move the photo of me above the proof points," "the button should say Book a call."
This is the most common thing that goes wrong. You attached 8 photos and the site shows gray rectangles or the words "image placeholder." Claude saw the photos, it just didn't put them in. Say this.
Use my photos in this artifact.
That sentence fixes it most of the time. If a box is still gray, tell it which file goes where, by name.
Use my photos in this artifact. Put [maria-headshot.jpg] at the top next to the headline, [studio-1.jpg] in the "what I do" section, and [client-kitchen.jpg] next to the proof points. Every photo I attached should appear once.
The HTML file and your photos are separate files, so when you open the download on your own computer, the page only finds the photos if they're in the folder it expects. Ask: "Tell me exactly what folder to put my photos in so they show when I open this file on my computer." Claude names the folder, you make it, you drop the photos in. Usually it's a folder called images sitting next to the HTML file.
Go down this list with the site open. 7 boxes. If one fails, type the fix into the chat and check again.
Last pass: read every word on the page out loud once. Anything that sounds like a brochure and not like you, tell Claude: "rewrite this section the way I said it in the interview."
The site is a file until it's on the internet. 2 ways to do it. The first takes about 5 minutes and costs nothing.
Way 1: drag it onto Netlify.
index.html. That exact name, all lowercase. It's the name every web host looks for.my-site. Put index.html in it, and your photos in whatever folder Claude told you (usually images, inside my-site).my-site folder, all of it, onto the dotted box. About a minute later you get a link that ends in netlify.app. Open it on your phone. That's your site, live.Way 2: ask Claude to walk you through it. If any of those steps feels like too much, hand it to Claude. One step at a time, and it waits for you.
I have the HTML file you built and my photos in a folder on my [Mac or Windows] computer. I'm not technical. Give me the steps to put this site online for free, one step at a time. Tell me exactly where to click. After each step, wait for me to say "done" before you give me the next one. [I already own the domain yourname.com / I don't own a domain yet].
Voice listens for a pause and then answers. Give shorter answers, one idea per turn, and let it ask the next question. For a long answer (the story of how you started), click out of Voice and type it. Then click Voice again.
You'll know because it could describe any business. Say: "Go through the plan line by line. Anywhere you wrote something any business could say, replace it with a question for me." Answer the questions. Ask for the plan again. On the Free plan this second pass is usually the difference.
Purple gradient, 3 cards with icons, a rocket somewhere. Say: "White background, one accent color from the plan, no gradients, no icons, no cards. Use my photos as the visuals." Your photos are the design. Everything else gets out of their way.
Don't. Get the one page right and online first. A one-page site that's live beats a 5-page site that's still in a chat window. When you have a real reason for a second page (a price list, a portfolio), paste the plan into a new chat and ask for that page in the same style.