The AI website builder that thinks in Arabic
An Arabic-first AI website builder is one designed for Arabic from the start: right-to-left layouts as the native direction, Arabic copy written as Arabic rather than translated, and an agent you can brief entirely in Arabic. Yani is built that way — and it builds your site that way too.
The Yani team ·
Why do mainstream builders break in Arabic?
Most website builders were designed left-to-right, in English, and Arabic support was bolted on later. You can see the seams. Layouts get "flipped" mechanically: the menu lands on the wrong side, arrows point against the reading direction, forms half-mirror so the label sits on one side and the field on the other. The page is technically in Arabic and obviously not made for Arabic.
Then there is type. Many templates ship a Latin font and let the browser pick whatever Arabic fallback it finds, so headlines that looked sharp in the demo come out cramped and uneven in Arabic. And the copy is the biggest tell of all: template text written in English, passed through machine translation, reading like an appliance manual instead of a person.
Your customers notice all of this in about three seconds. A store that looks foreign to its own neighborhood loses trust before anyone reads a word — which is the opposite of what a website is for.
What does Arabic-first actually mean in Yani?
It is not a language toggle. It is four decisions made at the foundation.
RTL is the starting point, not a flip
Pages Yani builds in Arabic are laid out right-to-left from the first line: navigation, alignment, step order, and spacing all read naturally, instead of a mirrored English template with the seams showing.
Arabic written as Arabic
Brief Yani in Arabic and it drafts your headlines, product descriptions, and buttons directly from that Arabic brief — there is no English original underneath. Review every line in the preview and tune it in the same conversation.
An agent you brief in Arabic
Describe your site in plain Arabic and the whole conversation stays in Arabic — the plan, the questions, the progress updates. You never translate your own idea just to get it built.
Bilingual sites from one build
Ask for Arabic and English and Yani builds both versions in the same conversation — review each side in the preview and refine either with a message.
Can Yani build a bilingual Arabic–English site?
Yes, and for most MENA businesses that is the right call. Your customers are rarely one audience: locals who prefer Arabic, expats and visitors who read English, and plenty of people who switch between both. One build produces both versions, each laid out in its own natural direction.
The part that matters: neither side is the "real" site with the other tacked on. The Arabic pages read as Arabic and the English pages read as English, because each was written for its reader rather than converted from the other.
Is the builder itself in Arabic too?
It is. Yani ships a complete Arabic interface on a frontend built RTL-native — the tool you use every day speaks your language, not only the sites it produces. If you want to see the full build flow before you start — describe, review the plan, approve, watch the build, connect your domain — the step-by-step walkthrough is at /blog/how-to-build-a-website-with-an-ai-agent, and the full web-app capability list is at /features/webapp.
Frequently asked questions
Can I write my whole brief to Yani in Arabic?
Yes. Describe the site in plain Arabic and Yani plans, builds, and reports back in Arabic. You never need to translate your idea into English to get it built.
Will the Arabic version of my site just be a translation of the English one?
Not if you brief it in Arabic. Yani drafts the Arabic pages from your Arabic brief rather than converting English text, and in a bilingual build each language is drafted for its own reader. Review both sides in the preview and adjust anything that reads off with one message.
Why does RTL need to be built in from the start?
Because direction touches everything: layout, alignment, icon direction, step order, spacing. Retrofitting RTL onto a left-to-right template produces half-mirrored pages where some elements flip and others do not — the exact look that tells visitors the site was not made for them.
Does an Arabic-first site still work well for English visitors?
Yes. Arabic-first describes where the design starts, not where it stops. A bilingual build gives English visitors a proper left-to-right English site — no compromise in either direction.
Your customers read Arabic. Your website should too.
Describe your site in the language you think in, and watch Yani build it.