The Ploy
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News, guides, and stories from the team building Ploy.
The Changelog
The features, improvements, and fixes we ship to Ploy, rounded up every week.
Featured stories

Introducing Ployee: Ploy, right in your Slack
Ployee brings Ploy into Slack. Tag @Ployee in any thread to get answers about your site and business, run workflows, and publish from the thread.

A CMS is nice. An (agentic) database is better.
A CMS is nice. An (agentic) database is better.

Designers' favorite shaders, now on Ploy
We've added Effects to Ploy: all 30 of Paper's open-source shaders, set up for your site's colors and layout.
How Clay turns original data into interactive lead magnets
Inside Clay’s 6,346-company speed-to-lead study, the agents behind it, and the practical build system Alex Lindahl uses to run faster GTM experiments.
How Avoca built an AI-native ABM machine across its sales cycle
See how Avoca uses 3 AI-native ABM workflows to open accounts, turn discovery calls into business cases, and explain complex proposals.

AI Web Design with Opus and Sol
The best prompt isn't a prompt. It's a picture. That and many other I've picked up building websites with AI: how to spot slop, where the models forget, why the design plan is the whole game.

Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6
For four months, no frontier model beat Claude Opus in our production evals. GPT-5.6 did. This is what we learned while migrating.

Ploy raises $27M to turn your company's website into your hardest working employee
Ploy is generally available today, and we've raised $27M from First Round Capital and Y Combinator. A note from our CEO on why the website matters more than ever — and the AI growth team built to run it.
Guides and resources
Comparisons, how-tos, and research for growth teams.
- Webflow vs Squarespace (2026): Features, Pricing, and Differences
- Framer vs Squarespace (2026): Features, Pricing, and Differences
- Webflow vs Wix (2026): Features, Pricing, and Differences
- Webflow vs WordPress (2026): Features, Pricing, and Differences
- Website Migration Checklist for SEO in 2026
- Lovable vs Framer: Which Builder Is Right for Startups?
- 11 Best One-Page Website Builders in 2026 (Compared)
- Lovable vs Webflow: AI-Native vs Visual No-Code
- Lovable vs v0: Which AI Builder Ships Production Sites Faster?
- Bolt.new vs v0 (2026): Full-Stack vs Component Builder
- Lovable vs Bolt.new (2026): Features, Pricing, and Differences
- 38 Website Experimentation Statistics That Explain Why Most Tests Fail and What High-Performers Do Differently