Testing AI Web Design on a Real Business: The Results (w Genspark)
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Every make money with AI video sells you
the same fantasy. Type one prompt, wake
up rich, blah blah blah. I'm going to do
the [music] opposite. I'm going to take
one real local business today, build
them a real website, and try to land
them as a paying client. And I'm going
to show you where it actually works, and
where it quietly builds you. I just want
to be up front about it. This video is
sponsored by GenSpark. They paid me to
test their tool. They did not pay me to
lie to you. And I kept [music] full
control of the verdict. So, you're going
to watch me hit the limits live, not
just the highlight reel. My name is
Daniel Jindeel, and I used to run an AI
info business that questioned my moral
every single day, and eventually I had
to quit. Now, I'm just giving away
everything I know about AI for
completely free. [music] There's no
gatekeeping. You can join my free
community and newsletter to get as much
value as you can. You can check it all.
All I'm asking for is maybe hype this
video and leave a comment [music] down
below. Now, here's the actual test. And
by the end, you'll have a repeatable way
to land your first paying client [music]
with or without this tool. Most people
never land that first client. It's
actually hard. And it's not a talent
problem. To sell a small business a
website, [music] you normally need to do
five separate jobs. You research who to
pitch, you design something, you build
it, you host it somewhere, then you
write the [music] outreach. That is five
tools, five logins, five things to
learn, and most people quit at tools
number two. So, the real bottleneck was
never the idea. It was the friction.
[music]
Too many moving parts, so the project
dies on your laptop. So, why don't we
think of it like a hiring a temporary
agency? You do not do the work yourself.
You walk in,
>> [music]
>> you describe the result you want, and
the agency staffs the job. The one
worker does the research, one designs,
one builds, one writes the pitch. You're
not the worker on the floor. You're the
manager. You get the brief, you check
the work, you send it back [music] when
it is wrong. That is what GenSpark calls
super agent. In plain English, it is one
place where you hand off a whole entire
project, and a team of these AI workers
run the steps. [music]
You stay the managers the whole entire
time, which I think is really important,
because the manager is [music] where the
judgment lives. Hold on to that thought,
because we're going to come back to
that, and this is the entire what this
entire video is about. Now, the actual
run. Quick note first, because it's this
team manager idea. A manager does not
type the work order. They just say what
[music] they want. And Jen Spark has a
free voice app for exactly that called
Speakly. You talk, it just types. Very
simple. And it has a shortcut that drops
what it says straight into Super Agent.
I typed mine so you can read along with
me. But the voice option is right there
so the brief, find me five real local
laundromats with no website. Pick the
best [music] one, build a site, make a
logo, and write the outreach, and let's
go. First job, finding the business. And
the first honest catch shows up right
away. Its map search tool actually fails
first time so it fell back to reading
online directories, the Yellow [music]
Pages type listing, and it pulled five
real laundromats in Burnaby that have no
real websites or whatsoever. But watch
this, it gave me two different phone
numbers for one of them and it flagged
that itself. It literally told me,
"Double check this before you reach
out." So the two finds, you verify and
it did not magically know these shops.
It read the listing and told me what I
was unsure about. That is you being the
manager again. Before you ever send an
email, you pick up the phone and
confirm. Okay, so it picked one shop, a
family-run place, husband and wife
owners, free coffee, fragrance-free
soap, and none of that shows up online
anywhere. It's [music] a good pick
because all of that is website gold that
is currently just invisible. Then in the
same run, it made a logo, made a hero
image, and built a full one-page site,
hours, services, a map, a contact form,
a few minutes of me doing nothing but
just watching [music] or working on
something else. And this is the exact
moment every other video stops. Shiny
results, sign up with my link, done. But
I'm not going to stop there because when
I look closely, the first pass was not
good enough. I wasn't really satisfied
with it. It was bad bad bad. Look, three
real problems. One, it looked like AI
generated [music]
because AI made it. Generic font, a
boring navy and gold combo you've seen
like a thousand different [music] times.
And secondly, the hero photo is melted
text on the washing machine. That
[music] word, dreamy AI look. You cannot
send that to a real business owner even
for a demo, right? So lastly, and this
is the one nobody really talks about
right now, the deployment part. It tried
to put the website on a real independent
host and it could not. It timed out so
it parked the site on a link owned by
Jimspark instead of one owned by myself.
So, the catch here is that the easy
version keeps you on the rails and there
is a cost catch, too. That first bill
cost me about 1,000 credits on the
cheapest paid plan that is 10,000
credits a month. So, you get roughly
nine or 10 of these bills before you are
buying more. So, I did what a manager
does. I sent the work right back. I gave
it a clear design direction. Basically,
a picture of what good looks like and I
pushed it through two refinement passes.
New fonts with actual character, one
confident color use [music] boldly
instead of timid, real trust signals a
laundromat customer cares about, card
[music] and coin big capacity machine,
free parking, a call button stuck to the
bottom of the phone screen so you can
tap it from anywhere, hours you cannot
miss. And then it tried to add amenities
it could not actually confirm. So, I
made a flag those with a verify tag
because putting fake details on a real
business site is bad bad [music] bad.
And a photo, I regenerated it and it got
really better. But my take on the photo
is even the good AI [music] version is
not good enough. I wasn't really
satisfied. For a real client, you want a
real photo. Even a photo snapped from
the owner because AI pictures of real
places always have a tell if you look
close enough. And after my passes, this
looked like a real [music] business
hired a designer. The jump from generic
to good did not come from the tool. It
came from me directly. If the tool is
fast, the judgment is yours. Now, the
question my people always ask, "If I
build it here, am I trapped here?" So, I
tested it and I exported the whole
thing. And the part genuinely surprised
me, you get [music] clean normal website
file. There's no weird format, no export
fee. I checked and nothing in those
files needs Jimspark to keep running.
It's yours. You can take them and host
them yourself for free on your own
domain anywhere you want. Going back to
temporary agency, the work the crew
built is yours. You walk out with it and
set up your own shop on your own lot.
The only thing tied to Jimspark was that
easy preview [music] link. Once you
export that hosted yourself, the cord is
cut. Now, the question my people always
ask, "If I build it here, am I trapped
here?" So, I tested it. I exported the
whole thing, entire thing, and this part
generally kind of surprised me. You get
clean normal, Webflow files. There's no
weird format, no extra fees, I checked.
And nothing in those files needs
GenSpark to keep running. [music] You
can take them and host them yourself for
free on your own domain. Probably not
free, but yeah, you know what I mean.
Anywhere you want. Let's go back to the
temporary agency. [music] The work the
crew built is yours. You walk out with
it and set up shop on your own lot. The
only thing tied to GenSpark was that
easy preview link. Once you export that
and host it yourself, that cord is
pretty much cut. So, my take on the
boundary is this [music] one. Editing
the site again means another credit
burning run, which means you rent the
builder, not the result. GenSpark is a
fast way to produce the real thing you
[music] fully own. It is not where you
run 50 client sites long-term unless you
[music] are happy paying for the
credits. Build it, ship it, then own it
what you made. Let me split the cost
honestly because these are two different
things. There are cost to build. Tool is
about $20 a month plus those credits per
site. It's real, but very tiny. Cost to
run the Webflow site you deliver,
basically zero. Once you export the
files and drop them on a free host like
Vercel or Netlify, your client pays
nothing ongoing and neither do you
because you [music] own the files. And
one more thing, GenSpark says they are
at a $250 million annual run rate.
[music] What that means in plain English
on run rate is a pace. You take their
recent sales and stretch them across the
year. So, it is not money already
banked. It's cool. That's their number.
It's not proof it works for you. The
proof is what you just watched on my
screen. So, even if you never touch this
tool, take the play because the play
[music] is the asset. One, find local
business with no website or a bad one.
They're everywhere if you look hard
enough, okay? Two, build them the thing
before [music] you pitch. A real demo,
not a promise. Three, reach out with it
already done. [music] So, you're
showing, not selling directly. Four,
charge a first-rate to finish it and
host it on their own domain. That works
with any tool. [music] GenSpark just
makes our steps fast. I put the exact
prompts I used, the outreach email, and
a single pricing guide [music] in a PDF
so you can just take it. So, why don't
you grab the prompts? It's free. It's in
the link below, if you want the prompts
and the outreach template [music] to run
this yourself. If you do want to try
Jasper, my link below gives you free
credits to test it, same way I did. Use
it on a real project, not a toy. That is
the only way you learn if a tool [music]
is worth it, you know? And remember that
one line that matters here, the tool is
fast, but you are the manager still, and
the judgment is what gets paid. [music]
Anyway, that is for today. If you want
to see more, why don't you comment down
below on what you want to see next? For
the next video, I'm going to cover
hidden open-source repos every local AI
enthusiast should know right [music]
now, because that is how our channel
runs. You ask, I build, we all learn.
See you in the next video.
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This video provides a realistic assessment of using AI tools to build websites for local businesses as a way to land paying clients. The narrator demonstrates the 'Super Agent' feature of the GenSpark tool by building a website for a laundromat, emphasizing that while AI can automate labor-intensive tasks like research, design, and coding, human judgment is essential for quality control, verification, and final touches. The video concludes with a repeatable, four-step strategy for landing clients that works whether or not this specific tool is used, highlighting the importance of delivering a tangible demo instead of a promise.
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