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Back to Episodes[102] How to Finish AI-Built Websites: A New Service for Web Designers
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Your next web design client might already have an AI-built website.
AI can help someone get surprisingly far into a website project. They can create layouts, generate copy, choose images, and build something they're genuinely excited about.
And then they hit the part where the website actually has to work.
In this episode of Think Inside the Square, I'm talking about what I think is an emerging service opportunity for web designers: taking an AI-built website and getting it across the finish line.
Because the real problem isn't necessarily that an AI-generated website looks like AI. The bigger opportunity is improving the parts AI hasn't finished: functionality, accessibility, responsiveness, maintainability, design judgment, brand personality, and the overall structure of the website.
For Squarespace designers especially, this may mean entering the project much later than we're used to. The client has already started; our job is to finish it.
In this episode:
- Why making a website “look less like AI” shouldn't be the main goal
- Why familiar AI design patterns aren't necessarily the biggest problem
- How clients are starting website projects differently
- What it means to finish an AI-built website
- Why designers may start entering projects at the 60–80% mark
- How Squarespace can simplify an unnecessarily complicated AI-built setup
- Where accessibility, usability, branding, and design judgment still matter
- Why this work starts to look more like consulting than traditional website design
If clients are starting to bring AI-built websites into your inbox, I'd love to hear what you're seeing. Email me anytime at hello@insidethesquare.co.
Full episode transcript & resources: insidethesquare.co/podcast
Hire me to build your AI design on Squarespace: insidethesquare.co/hireme
Questions or something interesting happening in your own Squarespace business? hello@insidethesquare.co
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The term "Squarespace" is a trademark of Squarespace, Inc. This content is not affiliated with Squarespace, Inc.
For a transcript of this episode, along with the links to any resources mentioned, visit insidethesquare.co/podcast