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Basehim

About Basehim

Basehim is an open-source, modular CMS with powerful APIs, AI-ready architecture, and flexible themes, apps and modules — built for developers, businesses, and the next generation of website builders.

Why another CMS?

Most content management systems were designed for a web where a person sat at a keyboard and clicked through an admin screen. That assumption is baked in deep: the content lives inside the system, the interface is the only real way in, and anything else — a mobile app, another service, an AI assistant — has to work around the edges.

Basehim starts from the opposite end. Everything the admin can do, the API can do. Content is not locked behind an interface; the interface is just one client among several. That one decision is what makes the rest possible.

Built for the AI era

AI agents are becoming a normal way to work with software, and they are badly served by systems that only speak HTML. Basehim ships with a Model Context Protocol server, so an assistant can search your content, draft posts, tidy metadata or answer questions about what you've published — through a real interface, not by guessing at web pages.

What matters as much as the capability is the control. Every connection is scoped: you are shown exactly which permissions an agent is asking for, and you grant only those. An assistant allowed to draft posts cannot read your users or change your settings. Apps can expose their own tools to agents, under the same rules.

Modular, not monolithic

Themes, apps, modules, blocks, widgets and hooks are separate concerns with clean boundaries between them. Add what you need, leave out what you don't, and replace any single piece without rebuilding the rest. A theme change never touches your content. An app can be switched off and back on without losing its settings.

There's a marketplace built into the admin for browsing and installing themes and apps, and every download is checksum-verified before it's installed — a corrupted or tampered file fails safely rather than quietly installing something broken.

Runs where you already are

Basehim was written to run on ordinary, inexpensive web hosting — the kind sold with a control panel, not a command line. There's no build step, no terminal required and nothing to install on your own computer. Upload it, open your site, and you're set up in about a minute.

That constraint was deliberate. Plenty of modern tooling assumes a deployment pipeline; most people running a website don't have one and shouldn't need one.

Who it's for

  • Developers who want a content store with a real API, a straightforward extension model and no framework to learn first.
  • Businesses that need a site they can run themselves, connect to the other systems they already use, and hand to someone non-technical without a training course.
  • The next generation of website builders — people who expect to work alongside AI tools rather than around them.

These aren't three different products. They're the same system seen from three distances.

Open source

Basehim is free to use, open to read, and yours to extend. You can inspect exactly what it does, change what doesn't suit you, and run it wherever you like. Nothing about your site depends on our continued goodwill — which is, we think, the only honest basis on which to ask anyone to build something important on top of your software.

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