We want to be transparent about why we returned to AppSumo and what changed. 🔍

Our goal for 2026 is ambitious: to build genuinely useful, production-grade AI for website architecture—not demos or gimmicks. That requires significant R&D, infrastructure, and support investment. 🚀

Returning to AppSumo helped us accelerate that work. But as feedback came in, it became clear that the combination of new AI features, updated tiers, and grandfathering language created confusion and concern—especially for long-time Sumo-lings who supported us early. 🤝

After reviewing this carefully, we made a clear decision:

All existing LTD customers now receive full PRO plan access. ✅

This simplifies everything and reflects our respect for early supporters. PRO represents the complete VisualSitemaps product experience.

Advanced AI Optimized Maps remain usage-based due to real compute and infrastructure costs. Offering unlimited AI usage inside a lifetime deal is extremely risky and has caused many AI startups to fail. We’re committed to building something durable, not short-lived. 🧱

We’re deeply grateful to every Sumo-ling—past and present—who helped us get here through feedback, trust, and word of mouth. 💚 This decision is us investing back into that relationship, even when it comes with real risk on our side.

Our goal remains the same: build long-term value, earn trust, and keep shipping. 📦✨

-Artur

Founder & CEO, VisualSitemaps

Hi, I’m Artur, founder of VisualSitemaps.

I want to share a few important details about what VisualSitemaps’ AI actually does.

Most tools stop at documenting a website as it exists today. VisualSitemaps goes further. Our AI doesn’t just analyze your site ➡️ it generates a proposed, optimized future-state architecture that you can review, refine, and use as an execution blueprint.

When you run an AI optimization, VisualSitemaps scans your site’s structure, URLs, metadata, and content relationships. It identifies weak hierarchies, redundant or competing pages, crawl bloat, and gaps in topical coverage. From there, it reorganizes the sitemap into a cleaner structure, grouping pages into meaningful topical clusters, refining directories, and assigning page priority and tags based on impact.

Alongside the visual map, you receive a detailed AI-generated report. This report explains why the structure was reorganized, which areas carry the highest impact, and how to implement changes step by step. It includes priority scoring, competitive context, redirect considerations, and a phased roadmap your SEO, design, or dev team can actually execute.

It’s important to be clear about control:
VisualSitemaps never pushes changes to your live site.
AI proposes structure; humans stay in charge. You decide what to implement, modify, or ignore.

Strategic Use Cases

VisualSitemaps is built for teams shaping complex websites, including:

• UX & Product teams optimizing large information systems and navigation clarity

• SEO & Content teams aligning structure with intent, topical authority, and AI discovery

• Agencies delivering architecture-led audits, redesign planning, and structured recommendations

• Web & Platform teams managing long-term structural debt, scale, and governance
  👀 View some of our case-studies here.

Modern SEO, AI discovery, and UX all depend on architecture.
Clean structure is no longer optional —> it’s foundational.

If you’d like to see how this works end-to-end, these walkthroughs are the best place to start:

• Full AI Architecture Walkthrough (YouTube)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5S7XIqapKw&list=PL5W5Klczg_WP_CCllktp_Q-QHWvULFenx&index=22
  
  

• AI-Optimized Analysis Reports Demo (YouTube)
  https://youtu.be/M5S7XIqapKw?si=2P1H8hYkSUgNgN0t&t=168
  
  View Full Sample Report.pdf
  
  

• FLOWS: From Architecture to Real User Journeys (YouTube)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFhH0CTihU&list=PL5W5Klczg_WP_CCllktp_Q-QHWvULFenx&index=13
  
  📀 Flow Demos:
  App Architecture Flow | Ecommerce Flow | Lo-fi Sitemap Wireframe
  Try it out for free here >>

— Artur
Founder & CEO, VisualSitemaps

Hey, Sumo-lings! 👋 I’m Artur, CEO & Co-founder at VisualSitemaps ( aka “VSM” ).

We are super excited to share my baby with you today!

OUR ORIGIN STORY

As a +20 year product designer, I wanted to solve my own reoccurring problem.

Every time I had a new web project, I kept having to manually create a visual sitemap for myself and my clients, just to get an idea of the scope and page flow. I also had to manually take screenshots of key pages to later use for reference and in my proposals.

I looked for a modern solution that would provide the same professional output I was used to making, and there was just nothing out there. So we built it. It took almost 2 years!

Read on >> 👀 https://visualsitemaps.com/our-story/

Over the past 2 years, we have helped agencies like R/GA, Sapient, and HUGE, save countless tedious hours, provide insights, and get everyone on the “same page”.

Today, we generate tens of thousands sitemaps every month. 🚀

🏅🏆TOP 10 MOST-VOTED on PRODUCTHUNT (2019)

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/visualsitemaps

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USE CASES

🚀 Website Founders / Strategists / Marketers

Websites are constantly evolving with new and updated content, so having FULL knowledge of what’s where (and doing what) is essential. You can’t optimize what you don’t know.

But it’s time-consuming and you’re too busy to continuously be keeping tabs on the market and your competition. That’s where our Automated Scheduled Crawls + Visual QA shine.

Just select the URLs you want to track, and our AI 🤖will notify you of any visual changes that occurred between the last crawl.

New price change? ✅ You will know.

New Featured Image? ✅ You will know.

Did someone add more pages? ✅ You will know which ones and where.

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🚀 Website UI Designers / PMs / Devs

Perhaps you have a bold new project initiative that requires you to do a plethora of competitive research both for design & functionality. So you start crawling Site-X, and tag their landing page hero animation, or write some notable comments to share with your Lead Designer for consideration.

Next, you crawl Site-Y and discover their clever implementation of a complicated concept similar to yours. You tag that too, export as a PDF or CSV, then share a more optimized sitemap you edited with your strategy and dev team for feedback.

Audit as many competitors as you want to find their best UX and strategies, and gain both the micro and macro-level insights across your niche that will give you the edge you need to innovate and compete.

You now have generated a compendium of notes/tags/priorities. Your team gets notified via email or in-app (in real-time) to start the threaded conversations and manage their resolutions.

The team does their ideation sprint and uploads new page design ideas back into the map as well as resculpting the existing map, for your feedback and final approval.

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🚀 Website UX Designers

Perhaps one could boldly say that at the dawn of UX the first deliverable ever made was the mild-mannered sitemap. It was useful then, and it is useful now...maybe more than ever.

Having a long spreadsheet of links or xml files is no longer very useful to capture the full picture of a digital product unless you are a robot. We, humans, are highly visually cognitive creatures and need to make sense of things with our eyes.

You need to see the structure in the full context of the content and data in order to precipitate the observations, conclusions, and discoveries you need to innovate on.

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Our unique approach to making the best ‘visual intel toolkit’ was honed by listening to top-tier product makers and today it can do all this:

✅ Run a full visual audit from small 50-page public and most private sites (in minutes) up to +50,000 pages in just a few hours.

✅ Duplicate & ReEdit a sitemap (post generation) to create a more optimal map.

✅ Schedule Crawls & Visually QA sitemaps with various frequencies and thresholds.

✅ Add Threaded Annotations on any screenshot and share them with your clients, team members.

✅ See how many of those pages are no longer existing (404’s & their referral pages).

✅ Export the full sitemap as a PDF, CSV, or JSON. ( XML coming! )

✅ Share the full interactive map with unlimited collaborators to add their comments.

✅ Crawl a sitemap.xml URL to exclusively crawl only those links.

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TODAY -- we bring VisualSitemaps to all Sumo-lings and the growing AppSumo community because we would love to share all the great features and benefits the product delivers, and also have you as life-long product ambassadors ❤️

💎 Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/rrUPRYHK

💎 How-To & FAQs: https://support.visualsitemaps.com/

💎 Youtube Vids: https://bit.ly/vsm-tube

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👁️ WHAT'S IN OUR FUTURE?

TONS! One of the biggest reasons we chose to do an Appsumo campaign, was to gain invaluable feedback from your brilliant Sumolings! As there are so many forms our roadmap can take shape and the potential is skyrocketing as we unearth more use-cases and pain-points.

We hope this campaign will open up more ideas and validate some epic assumptions we have observed so far.

We hope you enjoy VisualSitemaps and we are ready to answer any questions that you may have.

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