AI: a passing trend, or here to stay?

You hear all sorts about AI. It changes everything, says one person. It’ll blow over, says the next. And maybe what you’re really thinking is: what use is it to a baker, a hairdresser or a painter? Here’s our honest answer.

What do people make of AI?

Broadly, there are two camps. The first tries AI out, and comes away sometimes impressed, sometimes disappointed. The second already uses it every day without giving it a thought: the spellcheck on your phone, the sat nav in the car, the answer at the top of Google.

Will it blow over?

Big changes tend to go the same way. First everyone talks about it. Then it becomes normal. That’s how it went with the bank card, the internet and the smartphone. In 2005, anyone who said we’d all carry a computer in our pocket wasn’t always taken seriously either.

What’s certain?

You can decide for yourself whether AI is a fad or the future. On one thing we have no doubt at all:

Without AI, we couldn’t make a website for nothing up front and €39 a month.

Most web agencies charge by the hour, even for a simple website. That isn’t greed. It’s simply a lot of work: meetings, a design, wording, photos, building, testing, tweaking. All those hours have to be paid for.

At Prestido, that work is done by Prestido AI, our AI assistant: everything from the letter to building the website and answering your questions. So you don’t pay for those hours. See the prices.

But is it any good?

Fast can sound careless. That’s why a person keeps an eye on it: a person checks every website before it goes live. If something’s not right, we fix it first.

And you don’t have to take our word for it. We make your website first, then show it to you. Don’t like it? You pay nothing.

What does it mean for you?

You don’t need to know anything about AI. You get a website for your business, on your own domain name. It works well on a phone and is easy to find. At a price that wasn’t possible a few years ago.

Maybe that’s the best answer to whether AI is here to stay: it puts something within reach of a local business that used to take a whole team. See for yourself, with your own example.

You don’t need to know anything about AI. You get a website for your business.