Comparison
Sentway and Claude artifacts
Claude artifacts are one of the fastest ways to go from a description to a working page. You ask, it builds, and you see the result immediately inside the conversation. Sentway starts where that ends: it takes what Claude built, publishes it on its own web address, decides who is allowed to open it, and records what visitors did so the same conversation can read the answer back.
What Claude artifacts are good at
- Making a page or an app in seconds from a plain description
- Iterating on it live while you are still talking to Claude
- Previewing the result without leaving the chat
Nothing below is a criticism of that. Sentway is shaped around a different job, and the table sets out where the two differ.
The difference in one line
An artifact is a preview inside a conversation. A Sentway page is a published site on its own address that other people can open, that can be gated, and that reports back.
The two are complementary rather than competing. Claude writes the page, Sentway serves it. Sentway has no editor and no generation of its own, so nothing about how Claude wrote the page is changed on the way through.
When you need the second half
The moment you want to send the thing to somebody else, questions appear that a preview does not answer. What is the link. Can anyone with the link open it. Did the client actually read it. What did they type into the form. Which of the three people you sent it to came back a second time.
Those are the questions Sentway exists to answer. Your AI connects over MCP, publishes the page, sets the access rule, and later reads the visitor record back into the same conversation.
What your AI can read back
Once the page is live, the tools below are what your AI calls to tell you what happened. The plan each one needs is read from the live tool catalogue.
- get_analyticsFree plan
- get_submissionsFree plan
- list_visitorsPro: Visitor timelines
- get_visitor_activityPro: Visitor timelines
Using both together
Build in the artifact until you like it, then ask Claude to publish it to Sentway. Because Sentway accepts HTML, JSX, Markdown, SVG and Mermaid, the source usually moves across untouched.
Revisions work the same way. Claude saves a new version and publishes it, the address stays the same, and the visitor record carries on across versions.
Side by side
| Capability | Sentway | Claude artifacts |
|---|---|---|
| Where the page lives | Its own web address, served to anyone you allow | Inside the conversation, with Claude's own sharing |
| Who wrote the page | Your AI. Sentway does not generate or restyle content | Claude, in the conversation |
| Access control | Public, email capture, verified email, allowlist, or password | Sharing controls provided by Claude |
| Form responses | Stored per site and read back over MCP | Held in the running artifact |
| Visitor record | Visits, active time, answers and completed tasks | Not the purpose of an artifact |
| Publishing model | Atomic snapshots, so visitors never see a half-published site | Live edits in the conversation |
Which one to reach for
Use Claude artifacts when
- You are still exploring an idea and nobody else needs to see it yet.
- The page is for you, and a preview in the conversation is all it has to be.
- You want to iterate in seconds without publishing anything.
Use Sentway when
- You are sending the page to a client, a buyer, a candidate or a list.
- Who can open it matters, and hiding content in the browser is not good enough.
- You want the answers, the visits and the finished tasks back in the conversation.
Questions people ask
- Does Sentway change how my page looks?
- No. Sentway serves what your AI wrote and adds only the SDK script that captures form submissions and activity. There is no template applied to your content and no restyling.
- Can I keep editing in Claude after publishing?
- Yes. Ask Claude to save the updated page and publish again. The address stays the same and the new snapshot replaces the old one for every visitor at once.
- Do I need to copy and paste the code across?
- No. With the MCP connection in place your AI publishes directly. Paste and upload also work if you would rather move it by hand.
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If the job in front of you is a page that goes out to somebody and comes back with an answer, connect your AI to Sentway and ask it to publish one.