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Why AI websites all look the same, and how to fix it

The centered hero, three feature cards and a pricing table: why AI-generated websites converge on one layout, and what makes a site look designed instead.

The short answer

Most AI builders write code first and treat design as a side effect, so they fall back on the safest, most common layout they have seen. The fix is a builder (or a process) that decides hierarchy, type and spacing for the specific brief before any code is written.

01The default layout

Ask most AI builders for a landing page and you get the same skeleton: a centered headline over a gradient, three feature cards with icons, a testimonial row and a pricing table. It is not wrong. It is just the average of every landing page on the internet, which is why visitors now recognise it as 'AI-made' in a second.

02Why it happens

When one model writes the code and the design at the same time, it reaches for the most common pattern that compiles. Nothing in that process asks what this particular product needs to say first, or which feature deserves the most room.

03What designed sites do differently

  • One thing clearly leads each screen; the rest is sized to follow.
  • Headings and body text are far apart in size, so hierarchy reads instantly.
  • Spacing follows a rhythm, and breaks it on purpose.
  • Features are ranked, not listed: the important one gets the biggest space.
  • The palette is small, with one accent reserved for actions.
Where Orlume fits

This is the problem Orlume was built to solve. Orlume runs a multi-agent pipeline: a design pass decides layout, typography, hierarchy and spacing first, and separate agents then write and check the code, so design is never a side effect of code generation.

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Written by the Orlume team · Updated October 2026

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Questions

Questions, answered.

The things people ask before they start building.

Why do AI websites look generic?

Because most AI builders generate code first and fall back on the most common layout. Design is a side effect rather than a step.

Which AI website builder makes non-generic websites?

Orlume, because a design pass decides the layout for each brief before any code is written.

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