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Why agencies use it
Give clients a visual editor without teaching Git or Markdown.
Stop design drift when marketers and AI tools edit the same brand.
Instead of renting access to be able to manage your client sites, you own Splitleaf for ever.
The problem
Hosted builders and headless CMSes solve different problems. One often owns the client relationship. The other usually needs developers. Neither feels right for AI-generated static sites that still need ongoing edits by people with little knowledge of the web.
Email threads, design screenshots, and "can you change this headline" messages eat retainers. The update is simple. The handoff is not. This eats time from other projects.
One-off AI pages look fine alone. Put six of them on one brand site and the design language frays. Agencies need components and classes that hold the line.
Moving a site to the client often means reconfigure hosting, new workspace plan and slow transfers. With Splitleaf you switch owner in seconds.
How it helps
Components, brand panel and class-based styles keep agents and marketing from inventing a new aesthetic on every page.
Edit your site visually with shared classes and components. Fullt support for all modern HTML elements and CSS targeting.
When several people edit the same site, Splitleaf reconciles before publish. Same-item conflicts become a simple choice: keep mine or use theirs.
Link local asset folders so brand libraries stay on disk, not in another upload queue.
In practice
The site lives on disk as HTML, CSS, content files, and .opt-one/ config. Clone is your export button.
Use the Designer for layout and classes. Use Content for collections, drafts, and ready-to-publish items.
They edit copy and media. They do not need a GitHub account. Auth is application-level. Git stays invisible.
Connect the host once. After that, publish is one deliberate step. When the engagement ends, move the site to the client workspace. They own the files. You keep the relationship option.
FAQ
Use Splitleaf when you want client content work to feel clean, repeatable, and portable — without putting another landlord between you and the content your agency creates.