Founder-run · Baltimore, MD
A one-person company in Baltimore that builds websites small businesses own.
Most customers have us build their site. There are two other ways in.
For local businesses and trades
Painters, plumbers, care homes, salons and other local businesses answer our questionnaire, and we build the site with AI so it's fast, then a web developer finishes every page so it's right. You'll see your first version within 24 hours of sending your answers and photos. The quote form emails every lead to you, with no lead fees.
Small-business sites →Build it yourself
Describe your site to Cobble, our AI designer. You get a working site with an AI agent that answers visitors around the clock, a Postgres database, and a private GitHub repo you can buy outright with a one-time buyout and host anywhere.
The AI builder →For AI assistants
Connect Claude, Cursor or VS Code to RunCabin over MCP, and your assistant can put a site online: a free HTTPS subdomain right away, and your own domain when you want one.
Connect an assistant →Every option ends with a site on your own domain.The leads come to you, and AI-built sites come with source code you can buy outright.
Charge per lead, forever, for customers who were already searching for you.
Keep your pages on their platform, so leaving means starting over.
Charge thousands up front and are hard to reach afterwards.
RunCabin works the other way.
We charge a flat rate to keep your site running, and leaving is easy. If you cancel, the domain goes with you and the leads were always yours. For AI-built sites, a one-time buyout transfers the GitHub repo to your account, to host anywhere.
I'm Ryan Mergen. I was lead programmer on a DNA and forensics application, and our main client was the FBI. When Kash Patel took over, I became convinced I was helping the wrong people, and I quit in January 2026.
Then AI happened, and I realized I could be the company. Now I build and run RunCabin from Baltimore, MD. It's a product of CodePoetics, my small software studio focused on practical tools for independent businesses.
- Ryan Mergen
Your domain goes with you whenever you ask, and your leads land in your inbox. AI-built sites keep their source code in a GitHub repo you can buy outright with a one-time buyout.
The price on the page is the whole price, and you see your total before you pay. There are no lead fees.
We look up the advertising rules for your kind of business in your state and write every page to them.
Cancel anytime, self-service, at runcabin.com/cancel. You keep the domain and everything you've earned, and the source repo stays available for buyout whenever you want it.
If something breaks, we tell you, and you hear it from a person.
Since July 2026, every site RunCabin hosts runs in Hetzner's Falkenstein datacenter park in Germany. The facility runs on 100% renewable electricity, certified hydropower the operator has used since 2008, and it is unusually efficient: air-cooled with no water cooling, at a power usage effectiveness of 1.10 to 1.16, where a typical datacenter runs around 1.5.
We won't dress that up as more than it is. It is not "carbon neutral": servers still use electricity, and Hetzner itself says it is not fully climate neutral yet. We picked a green datacenter, your site runs on renewable energy, and it costs you nothing extra. There is no green tier.
site Falkenstein datacenter park, Germany (Hetzner)
since July 2026 · all three products
power 100% renewable · certified hydropower, in use since 2008
cooling air only · no water cooling
pue 1.10-1.16 · typical datacenter ≈1.5
your cost nothing extra · no green tier
If you want to talk through whether RunCabin fits your business, email hello@runcabin.com or book a free 30-minute consult.
We'll get back to you within one business day.