What Squarespace is good at
Squarespace's templates are genuinely well-designed, the guided setup is the smoothest in the category, and the editing experience holds up years later. It is a safe recommendation for most people building something new.
SOSEI vs Squarespace
Squarespace gives you a template.
SOSEI gives you your site, rebuilt.
Squarespace's guided setup produces a polished site quickly. SOSEI takes a different input entirely: the domain you already own, crawled and rebuilt, with the copy and brand carried across.
Run a free audit of your current siteWhere SOSEI is different
A template is a starting point you fill in. A rebuild is a finished site derived from what you already published — including the pages you forgot were there.
Side by side
Structural differences only — no prices and no scores, because both change faster than this page does. Two rows go to Squarespace.
| Capability | SOSEI | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| Starts from the website you already haveYou give a domain, not a blank canvas or a prompt. | Yes | No |
| Existing copy, images and brand carried overYour pages are crawled and rebuilt, not retyped into a template. | Yes | No |
| One-click rebuild of the whole site against current standardsYou trigger it — the pipeline regenerates against today's standards, not the ones in place when the site was first built. | Yes | No |
| Report of what AI assistants actually answer about youBuyer questions run against several assistants and scored. | Yes | No |
| llms.txt and an AI-crawler allowlist shipped with the site | Yes | No |
| Cookie consent banner in every published siteBuilt in and not removable — tracking scripts stay gated behind it. | Yes | Possible, but you configure it |
| Privacy, terms, cookie and accessibility pages generated | Yes | Possible, but you configure it |
| WCAG 2.1 AA contrast enforced by the rendererColour choices that fail the ratio are corrected before publish. | Yes | Possible, but you configure it |
| Fonts self-hosted, no third-party font CDN | Yes | Possible, but you configure it |
| Drag-and-drop visual editorSOSEI edits by chat and direct in-page tweaks instead. | No | Yes |
| Template gallery to browse and pick fromEach SOSEI site is generated for one brand, so there is nothing to browse. | No | Yes |
A dash means the capability is available but set up per site by the owner, rather than being part of every published page.
Choose Squarespace when
- You are building something new and want a design system that is hard to make ugly.
- You will keep editing the site yourself and want that to stay pleasant.
- A portfolio, a shop or a booking flow is the centre of the site.
Choose SOSEI when
- Moving your current site into a template by hand is the part you keep postponing.
- You want the legal pages, consent banner and accessibility work to be part of the build rather than a checklist.
- You care whether ChatGPT and Google's AI answers mention you, and want that measured.
See where your current site stands.
Before choosing between SOSEI and Squarespace, it helps to know what is actually wrong with the site you have. The 40-point audit scores it across SEO, AI discoverability, accessibility, privacy, mobile, performance and design.
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