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Core ideas

The handful of ideas that explain how Starjay behaves: workspaces, AI sessions, pages and components, tokens, publishing, checkpoints, and credits.

Workspaces and sites

A workspace holds your sites, your plan and billing, your AI credits, and your team members. Everyone in a workspace shares its credits. If you belong to more than one workspace, you can switch between them in the dashboard.

A site is one website with its own pages, images, forms, content, and address. On the Free plan a workspace can have three active sites; archived sites don't count.

Learn more: Workspaces, Plans.

The AI session

When you ask the AI for something, Starjay starts an AI session. Every request in the session becomes a version. You can step back and forth between the versions and the Original (the site before the session started).

A session ends when you choose:

Save: keep everything from the session.
Reject: put the whole site back the way it was before the session, including any collection content the AI changed.

You decide once, for the whole session, not after every request. While a session is open, you can't publish; save or reject it first.

Learn more: AI sessions: versions, Save and Reject.

Pages and components

A page is one address on your site, such as /about. It decides which sections appear and in what order, and holds that page's content.

A component is a reusable building block, such as a header, a footer, a hero, or a pricing table. Pages are made of components. When a component is used on several pages, changing its design changes it everywhere. The editor shows a notice such as "Used on N pages" so you know before you edit.

Learn more: Pages and the Pages panel, Shared components and "used on N pages".

Design tokens

Your site's colors and fonts are design tokens: each one is named once (for example, a primary color or a heading font) and used everywhere. Change a token and every place that uses it updates. Spacing, sizes, and similar settings aren't tokens; they're set directly on each element.

Learn more: Design tokens: why your site has them.

Drafts and published

The editor is your working copy. Visitors see only what you last published. Nothing you change in the editor reaches your live site until you publish.

Pages have their own state too. A page can be a draft (never published), ready (goes live on the next publish), or live. Collection items are different: each item publishes on its own and goes live within seconds, without republishing the whole site.

Learn more: Publish your site, Draft, ready and live pages, Publish and unpublish items.

Checkpoints

A checkpoint is a saved copy of your whole site at one moment. Starjay saves checkpoints automatically at important moments, such as before the AI starts work and when you publish, and you can save your own at any time. Checkpoints are kept permanently, and there's no limit on how many you have. Restoring one puts the whole site back to that moment.

Learn more: Checkpoints.

Credits

Credits are what you spend to use Starjay. The AI uses credits, and so does the time your site is open for editing. Published sites don't use credits. Each workspace gets a monthly allowance that refills every period.

Learn more: How credits work.