You describe your event. Jitabi builds the website. In under 60 seconds. Here is exactly how Kenya's most innovative event planning tool works — and why tens of thousands of Kenyans are already using it.

The Problem With Traditional Website Builders in Kenya

Building a website has historically required one of three things: coding knowledge, money to hire a developer, or hours of patience wrestling with desktop-based drag-and-drop builders that were never designed for mobile-first markets like Kenya.

Even the most modern website builders — Wix, Squarespace, Webflow — assume you are sitting at a laptop with a stable broadband connection, a design sensibility, and hours to spare. For a Kenyan couple planning a wedding while juggling work, family, and ruracio preparations, this assumption fails immediately. Event planning in Kenya happens on the go. It happens on a phone, on the matatu, during a lunch break, or late at night after the children are asleep.

This is the exact context that Jitabi was built for.

What Is Jitabi?

Jitabi is MyJoyfulDay's proprietary AI WhatsApp bot — a conversational artificial intelligence that lives entirely inside WhatsApp and builds fully functional event websites through natural conversation. There is nothing to download. There is no account to create before you start. There is no form to fill out. You simply message Jitabi as you would a friend, describe your event, and receive a live website link within 60 seconds.

The name Jitabi — from the Swahili word for "book" or "record" — reflects the bot's role as your event's official keeper. Jitabi remembers your event details, tracks your RSVPs, and is always available to help you update or manage your site via WhatsApp, even after your site is live.

"I thought building a website would take days. I messaged Jitabi on a Tuesday evening and my wedding site was live before my chai went cold."

How Jitabi Builds Your Website in 60 Seconds

Understanding what happens behind the scenes helps illustrate just how sophisticated this technology is. When you message Jitabi, the following process unfolds in real time:

  • Natural language processing — Jitabi's AI engine parses your conversational responses for key event data: names, dates, venue, event type, and design preferences. It understands Kenyan English, including regional expressions and common ways of describing celebrations.
  • Template selection — Based on your event type and colour preferences, Jitabi selects the most appropriate layout from MyJoyfulDay's library of Kenyan-designed templates. These templates are built specifically for the visual aesthetics common at Kenyan events.
  • Site generation — The AI populates the chosen template with your specific details, configures the RSVP form, enables the countdown timer, and assigns your unique URL — all in parallel, while you are still in the conversation.
  • Link delivery — Jitabi replies with your live site link, a summary of what was created, and instructions on how to access your dashboard for further customisation.

What Events Can Jitabi Create Websites For?

Jitabi has been trained to understand the full range of Kenyan celebrations, not just Western-style weddings. Each event type gets a tailored template and conversation flow:

  • Weddings — including white weddings, traditional ceremonies, and ruracios. Jitabi can handle multi-day event programmes and separate RSVP flows for different sessions of the same wedding.
  • Birthday parties — from first birthdays and kids' parties to milestone 30th, 40th, and 50th celebrations. Jitabi adjusts the template tone and design accordingly.
  • Baby showers — with built-in registry linking and a separate section for collecting meal preferences from attending guests.
  • Graduation parties — featuring a personal achievement section where the graduate can share their story, institution, and course of study.
  • Anniversaries — with a love story timeline, photo gallery, and memory wall where guests can leave messages for the couple.

Managing Your Event After Jitabi Builds It

Jitabi builds the foundation. You control everything else from your dashboard. Once your site is live, you can log in to your MyJoyfulDay dashboard from any device and make changes without any technical knowledge. If your venue changes the week before the wedding, you update it in the dashboard and the change appears on your live site instantly — all guests who visit the link will see the correct information without you needing to resend anything.

You can continue to communicate with Jitabi on WhatsApp even after your site is live. For common updates — changing the RSVP deadline, adding a new event session, checking your current RSVP count — you can simply message Jitabi directly rather than logging into the dashboard. This makes ongoing event management something you can handle entirely from your phone.

Is Jitabi Available 24 Hours a Day?

Yes. Jitabi operates around the clock, including weekends and public holidays. Wedding planning does not follow office hours, and neither does Jitabi. Whether you are struck with inspiration at 2am or finalising your site details on Christmas Eve, Jitabi is ready and responds within seconds.