What Airogel CMS is

Airogel CMS is a hosted content management system. You sign up, choose a plan, and get a live website. The dashboard, the API and your site are all hosted by Airogel.

Structured content: collections group your content, blueprints define its fields (14 field types), and entries hold the content itself. See Content Modeling.
Liquid theming: pages are rendered from Liquid templates that you edit in the browser. See Liquid Templates.
URL routing: each collection has a URL pattern, and you can add paginated index pages, redirects and a home page. See Routing.
REST API at https://api.airogelcms.com/v1 for reading and writing content from your own code. See API Overview.
MCP server at https://api.airogelcms.com/v1/mcp, so AI assistants such as Claude or Cursor can manage your site. See MCP Integration.
Forms that save submissions as entries and can notify you by email. See Form For Tag.
Events with dates, locations and ticket types, shown on your site. See Events & Registrations.
Constituent CRM and member portal for the people your organisation works with (donors, members, volunteers, attendees), with a sign-in portal on your own site. See Constituents & CRM.
Custom domains with automatic HTTPS. See Custom Domains.
RSS and JSON feeds, plus a sitemap and robots.txt for every site. See Feeds.

What you need

An email address to create your account.
A payment method for a subscription. Some plans start with a free trial.

You don't need any local software. You can edit templates and content in the dashboard, through the API, or with an AI assistant. If you prefer to build themes on your own machine, Liquiditor is an optional local preview tool.

Get started

Create an account at app.airogelcms.com/registration/new. Enter your name, email, a password and a name for your account, and accept the terms. If a teammate invited you, use the link in your invitation email instead.
Choose a plan at app.airogelcms.com/pricing. Checkout is a Stripe payment form inside the dashboard. The dashboard sends you back to the pricing page until your account has an active subscription.
Open your site. Your site is live at https://<subdomain>.airogelcms.com. The subdomain is generated from your account name plus a short random suffix, for example acme-qwrt. New sites start with a working theme and some starter content (listed below).
Edit your content in the dashboard. Change the starter pages, replace the sample news posts, and adjust the theme templates and site.css to match your brand.
Add a custom domain under Settings → Domains. You add a TXT record to prove you own the domain, then point the domain at Airogel. HTTPS certificates are issued for you. See Custom Domains.
Optional: connect code or an AI assistant. Create an API token under Settings → API Tokens to use the REST API. To connect an MCP client, add https://api.airogelcms.com/v1/mcp as a custom connector and sign in with OAuth, or create a personal token under Settings → OAuth Logins. See MCP Integration.

What a new site contains

Item	What you get
Page collection	Routing `:handle` with root routing on. Entries: Home (handle `index`, served at `/`), About, Contact, Events and Links.
News collection	Posts at `/news/<handle>` and a paginated listing at `/news`, with two sample posts to replace.
Templates	A `theme` layout plus page, index, contact, events, link tree and news templates, and a `newsletter_cta` partial.
Forms	`contact`, `newsletter_signup` and `event_signup`. Each one saves its submissions into its own collection.
Globals and navigation	A `site` global (title, description, keywords), plus `main_navigation` and `link_tree_navigation` menus.
Assets	`site.css`, `site.js`, empty `custom_css.css` and `custom_js.js` files for your overrides, and a hero image.

Plans

There are three plans: Base, Premium and Creator. Each is billed monthly or yearly. Base includes hosting, content management, analytics, the REST API and the MCP server. Premium adds AI chat in the dashboard. Creator adds AI site design and Creator Mode. Every plan requires an active subscription. Current prices are on the pricing page, and Billing covers trials, plan changes and cancellation.

Next steps

Content Modeling: how collections, blueprints, entries, globals, navigations and forms fit together.
Collections and Routing: URLs, index pages, the home page and redirects.
Field Types Reference: all 14 field types and how their values appear in templates and the API.
Liquid Templates: tags, filters and variables for building your theme.
API Overview or MCP Integration: manage your site programmatically.
Changelog: what's new.

Questions? Email support@airogelcms.com.