Relume

The honest framing of Relume is that it solves the first 40% of a website project — the part that is tedious, repetitive, and hard to bill for — and deliberately stops there. What it does well: you describe the business in a few sentences and get a sitemap you can actually argue with, then wireframes assembled from real components rather than grey boxes. Shuffling components and editing images on canvas in the Design View means you can walk a client through a clickable structure in a first meeting instead of a second one. The Style Guide Builder is the underrated piece — colors, typography, and spacing locked before anyone draws a hero section is precisely the discipline agency work usually lacks. AI copywriting keeps a whole page consistent, which matters when a client sees five pages at once. The 2026 shift is the MCP and the Claude Design export. Relume's library is now a supply of real components for Cursor, Claude, Windsurf, and VS Code, and the design system exports in one click with colors, typography, spacing, and components included. For teams already prompting their way through builds, that is a materially better setup than pasting screenshots into a chat window. Where it doesn't fit: Relume is not Photoshop. Pixel-level visual design, bespoke illustration, and final production polish happen elsewhere, and the tool is scoped to marketing sites — e-commerce and app interfaces are out. If you already maintain a mature custom component library, the generated one is a second system you don't need. Users who prefer freehand sketching will find a component-first canvas constraining rather than fast. Practical advice: keep the free tier to evaluate the sitemap and wireframe quality on one real project, then move to Pro from $14/month billed monthly before a client engagement, because 30 components will run out mid-project. The ceiling on a single generation and the monthly capacity both rise with tier, so heavy months are the thing to watch.