diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index c701888d..5e482ebe 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -1,34 +1,91 @@
-version: 2.1
-
+# See: https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/language-python/
 
+version: 2
 jobs:
+
   build-docs:
+    working_directory: ~/repo
     docker:
       - image: cimg/python:3.13
+
     steps:
       - checkout
 
       - run:
           name: Install Python dependencies
           command: |
-            python -m pip install --upgrade pip tox
+            python3 -m venv venv
+            source venv/bin/activate
+            pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
+            pip install -r site/requirements.txt -r requirements.txt
+
+      - restore_cache:
+          keys:
+            - cache-data
 
       - run:
-          name: Build documentation
-          no_output_timeout: 60m
-          environment:
-            # Ensure this is same as store_artifacts path below
-            DOCS_PATH: _build/html
+          name: Build site
+          no_output_timeout: 30m
           command: |
-            export BASE_URL="/output/job/$CIRCLE_WORKFLOW_JOB_ID/artifacts/0/$DOCS_PATH"
+            # NOTE: blas multithreading behaves badly on circleci
             export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
-            python -m tox -e py313-buildhtml
+            source venv/bin/activate
+            # n = nitpicky (broken links), W = warnings as errors,
+            # T = full tracebacks, keep-going = run to completion even with errors
+            make -C site/ SPHINXOPTS="-nWT --keep-going" html
+
+      - save_cache:
+          key: cache-data
+          paths:
+            - _data
 
       - store_artifacts:
-          path: _build/html
+          path: site/_build/html
+
+      - persist_to_workspace:
+          root: site/_build
+          paths: html
+
+  deploy-docs:
+    working_directory: ~/repo
+    docker:
+      - image: cimg/python:3.13
+    steps:
+      - checkout
+
+      - attach_workspace:
+          at: site/_build
+
+      - run:
+          name: install deploy deps
+          command : |
+            python3 -m pip install --user ghp-import
+
+      - run:
+          name: configure git
+          command: |
+            git config --global user.name "ci-doc-deploy-bot"
+            git config --global user.email "ci-doc-deploy-bot@nomail"
+            git config --global push.default simple
+
+      - add_ssh_keys:
+          fingerprints:
+            5c:54:62:37:75:7f:4d:14:f4:07:82:1c:50:0d:ee:9b
+
+      - run:
+          name: deploy to gh-pages
+          command: |
+            ghp-import -n -f -p -m "[skip ci] docs build of $CIRCLE_SHA1" site/_build/html
+
 
 workflows:
   version: 2
-  build-and-docs:
+  build:
     jobs:
       - build-docs
+      - deploy-docs:
+          requires:
+            - build-docs
+          filters:
+            branches:
+              only: main
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_publish.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_publish.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 510284af..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_publish.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-name: Build and Publish HTML and deployed_notebooks
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 5 * * 1'
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  # `BASE_URL` determines, relative to the root of the domain, the URL that your site is served from.
-  # E.g., if your site lives at `https://mydomain.org/myproject`, set `BASE_URL=/myproject`.
-  # If, instead, your site lives at the root of the domain, at `https://mydomain.org`, set `BASE_URL=''`.
-  BASE_URL: /${{ github.event.repository.name }}
-
-jobs:
-
-  publish_html:
-    if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
-    name: Publish HTML
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-
-      - name: Setup Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
-        with:
-          python-version: '3.12'
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: python -m pip install --upgrade tox
-
-      - name: Execute notebooks while building HTMLs
-        run: tox -e py312-buildhtml
-
-      - name: Publish
-        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@4f9cc6602d3f66b9c108549d475ec49e8ef4d45e  # v4.0.0
-        with:
-          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          publish_dir: ./_build/html/
-          commit_message: ${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/circleci-artifacts-redirector.yml b/.github/workflows/circleci.yml
similarity index 83%
rename from .github/workflows/circleci-artifacts-redirector.yml
rename to .github/workflows/circleci.yml
index 95a7e6b8..35c4c076 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/circleci-artifacts-redirector.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/circleci.yml
@@ -11,5 +11,3 @@ jobs:
            api-token: ${{ secrets.CIRCLE_TOKEN }}
            artifact-path: 0/site/_build/html/index.html
            circleci-jobs: build-docs
-           domain: circle.scientific-python.dev
-           job-title: "--> Rendering Preview <--"