AI-powered Β· Founder-focused

Your business,
built by Sunday.

Website. Brand. Business system. AI brain.

You already have the real thing β€” a product, a service, years of know-how. What's missing is a business operating system that keeps up with you. In one focused launch, we build your brand, website, store, owner control center, and a private AI brain trained on your business. Then we run it with you every month.

We handle the tech.
You own everything.
Launch with confidence.
What You Get

Five pieces. One launch.

Every Weekend Startup launch installs the same five foundations β€” built together, so nothing is scattered across ten different tools and half-finished tabs.

Your Website

A real, live site with your offers, your story, and a clear path to booking or checkout β€” built from your intake, not a generic template.

Your Brand

Voice, colors, and tone defined once and applied everywhere β€” your site, your AI, and every page in between.

Your Store

Checkout, booking, or payment links connected to Stripe (or whatever you already use) β€” so people can actually pay you.

Business Control Center

One dashboard for leads, content, tasks, and your brand kit β€” plus a safe draft β†’ preview β†’ approve β†’ publish flow for every change.

Your AI Brain

A private assistant trained on your business β€” the answers customers ask you every day, answered instantly, in your voice.

The Process

From intake to launch, on one timeline.

One focused intake process is all we need to start. Here's what happens after you hit submit.

1

Intake Received

We've got your information and we're getting started.

2

Brand Created

Your identity, colors, and typography are ready.

3

Website Building

We build your pages and content around what you actually sell.

4

Control Center Ready

Your dashboard, AI brain, and store are wired up and waiting.

5

Launch Review

You review everything, then go live with confidence.

How It Works

You stay in control. We do the heavy lifting.

01

You give us the raw material

Your knowledge, photos, documents, and existing accounts β€” the things that already make your business real.

02

We build the foundation

Brand, website, store connections, dashboard, and your AI brain β€” assembled from one intake, not ten disconnected tools.

03

Every change is a safe draft

Nothing goes live without your review. Draft β†’ Preview β†’ Approve β†’ Publish, every time β€” with full version history.

04

Your AI brain learns your business

Add and approve the knowledge it answers from. If it hits something outside its lane, it flags our team instead of guessing.

05

We keep running it with you

Hosting, maintenance, and AI operation continue on a monthly plan β€” you focus on the business, not the backend.

AI COMMAND CENTER

πŸ’¬ "Create a launch offer and update my homepage."
↓ drafts a change ↓
πŸ“ Draft ready for your review
↓ you approve ↓
βœ… Published β€” live in minutes
Pricing

Start free. Go as deep as you need.

Every tier below the launch package is designed to give you something useful on its own β€” and to credit forward if you go all the way.

Readiness Scorecard
Free

A short assessment showing what your business already has, what's missing, and whether you're ready for a weekend launch.

Get my score
Weekend Startup Blueprint
$49

A guided workbook that defines your customer, offer, pricing, brand direction, website content, and launch priorities.

Get the Blueprint
Launch Mapping Session
$499

A private strategy session producing a customized business and website launch plan. Credited toward a full launch within 30 days.

Book the session
Founding Cohort
Weekend Startup Launch
$5,000 upfront + $399/mo

Brand, website, offers, lead capture, checkout or booking, owner control center, business brain, AI tools, hosting, and ongoing support.

Start my launch
Weekend Startup Growth
$8,500 upfront + $699/mo

Everything in Launch, plus advanced ecommerce or booking, added automations, expanded AI capabilities, and continued growth support.

Talk to us
Multi-Business / Multi-Location OS
Custom

Separate websites, control centers, and protected AI brains for owners running multiple businesses, brands, or locations.

Let's scope it
About

We built this to solve our own problem first.

Weekend Startup started because we were building three very different businesses at the same time β€” a destination-wedding company, a woodworking company, and an industrial AI company. The website was never the hard part. The real problem was that every business had its knowledge scattered across conversations, documents, task lists, images, and a pile of disconnected software β€” and none of it could reliably stay separated from the others.

So we built three separate business brains and put a lightweight operating system above them. Each business kept its own voice, customers, files, and decisions. From one intake process, we could produce the brand, website, offers, lead capture, owner dashboard, and AI knowledge needed to actually run the business.

That became Weekend Startup: instead of spending months assembling a website and a pile of disconnected software, you give us your knowledge, images, and existing materials β€” we install the foundation of your business operating system in one focused launch. Stop spending time launching your business. Spend it on the business itself.

18%of U.S. firms used AI in a business function in late 2025–early 2026
<20%of businesses with 4 or fewer employees report using AI
73%of small businesses have a website β€” most still need a system behind it

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, The Microstructure of AI Diffusion (2026) & Business Trends and Outlook Survey (May 2026); U.S. Small Business Administration, 5 Small Business Trends for 2025.

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Mark & Steven Dehlin

Founders, Weekend Startup

We're in our validation stage right now β€” proving the process with five founding customers, getting a standard launch down to a focused, well-run week, before opening this up more broadly. Bold, intelligent, and honest about where we are: that's the whole vibe.

Why not just use Wix or Durable? AI website builders are already cheap and everywhere. What they don't do is separate your business brain from everyone else's, hand you a real owner control center, or put a person on the other end when something needs a human. That's the gap we're building for.

FAQ

Good questions, answered plainly.

Can you really launch my business in one weekend?

The intake, brand, and website foundation move fast β€” our internal goal is 20 hours of focused delivery work or less once we have what we need from you. Some launches wrap in a weekend; others need a few extra days depending on how much content and how many connections are involved. We'll tell you honestly which one yours is.

What do I need to provide before you begin?

Your existing knowledge, photos, documents, and any current accounts (Stripe, booking tools, socials) β€” whatever already makes your business real. The Readiness Scorecard shows you exactly what you have and what's missing before you commit to anything.

Do I own my website, domain, content, and customer information?

Yes. Your website, domain, content, and customer data are yours. If you ever leave, you take them with you.

Can I change the website myself by talking to the AI?

Yes β€” describe the change in plain language from your Control Center. It drafts the change, you preview it, and nothing publishes until you approve it.

Will you have access to my passwords, API keys, or financial information?

No. You connect your own accounts (Stripe, booking, email) and hold your own credentials. We build and operate the system around them β€” we don't collect or store your secrets.

Is my private business brain separated from other customers and businesses?

Yes. Every business gets its own protected AI brain. Nothing you share crosses over into anyone else's, including other Weekend Startup customers.

Are hosting, maintenance, and AI usage included?

Yes, as part of the monthly plan on Launch, Growth, and Multi-Business tiers. The one-time products (Scorecard, Blueprint, Launch Mapping Session) are scoped deliverables without ongoing hosting.

How is this different from Wix, Durable, or a traditional web designer?

Those tools are excellent at the website. We go a layer deeper: a guided, done-with-you build, a protected AI brain trained specifically on your business, an owner control center, and a person behind it when the AI hits its limits.

What happens if I cancel?

You keep your website, domain, and content. We'll walk you through exporting or re-hosting what you need β€” this policy is still being finalized as we launch our founding cohort, so ask us directly for the current specifics.

Ready by Sunday.

Start with the free Readiness Scorecard, or jump straight to a Launch Mapping Session. Either way, you'll hear from us personally.

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Sunday

Weekend Startup's AI brain (preview)

Preview mode β€” scripted answers. Connect a real backend to go live.