# Promptway archive

> Every published article, newest first.

Canonical: https://promptway.com/blog

- [is-agentic Scored Promptway 74. Here Is What I Changed](https://promptway.com/blog/is-agentic-scored-promptway-74): Vercel shipped a scoreboard for how well agents can read a site. I ran it on this publication, closed the gaps that apply to a magazine, and wrote the prompt I would hand an agent to do the same work.
- [Vercel Shipped is-agentic.com. Here Is How the Scoreboard Works](https://promptway.com/blog/vercel-shipped-is-agentic): Ora runs the checks. Vercel publishes the report. The CLI, the markdown URL, and the MCP server are how an agent uses the grader on itself.
- [Jobs I Would Let a Grok Bot Run After I Close the Laptop](https://promptway.com/blog/grok-bot-directory): xAI opened Grok Bot on August 11. I started a public directory of the jobs that have a profile, a first task, and a line the Bot is not allowed to cross.
- [Google Thought My Archive Was the Homepage](https://promptway.com/blog/google-thought-my-archive-was-the-homepage): Search Console said duplicate page with a proper canonical. Six of my own URLs were pointing at /. Here is the Next.js leak, and why I flipped four reprints back to Promptway.
- [Block Put Its Agents in the Team Chat. Buzz Is an Audit Log Before It Is a Slack Killer.](https://promptway.com/blog/block-buzz-agents-team-chat): Block's open-source workspace gives agents identities, channels, code, and signed histories. Three early deployments show both the point and the missing permissions.
- [Pieter Levels Paid $19 for Kimi K3. It Cleared the To-Do List Claude Would Not Touch.](https://promptway.com/blog/pieter-levels-kimi-k3-windows-xp): He moved a browser-based Windows XP project from Claude Code to OpenCode and Kimi K3 after two weeks of safety blocks. The useful lesson is in the routing.
- [Structured Output That Survives a Model Swap: The JSON Scaffold I Actually Ship](https://promptway.com/blog/json-scaffold-survives-model-swap): Multi-model routing is normal now. Here is the schema-first prompt pattern that keeps objects valid when you change the brain underneath.
- [Three Operator Bets for the Rest of July (and Two to Ignore)](https://promptway.com/blog/three-operator-bets-rest-of-july): Falsifiable calls through August. One on tooling, one on AEO traffic, one on policy residue. Plus a short ignore list.
- [Indie Hackers Built AI Factories. Then Nobody Showed Up.](https://promptway.com/blog/indie-hackers-ai-factories-no-traffic): Code got cheap. Distribution did not. A field report on vibe-coding abundance, empty Stripe dashboards, and the operators who still print money anyway.
- [The MCP Servers Worth Paying For (and the Ones That Just Eat Context)](https://promptway.com/blog/mcp-servers-worth-paying-for): A task-based cut of the MCP ecosystem from someone who already wires ads, analytics, and repo tools into Claude. Buy, skip, wait, with security and context cost as first-class metrics.
- [Your Brand Is Probably Wrong in ChatGPT. Here Is the 90-Minute Audit.](https://promptway.com/blog/brand-wrong-in-chatgpt-audit): Stop guessing whether AI search knows you. Run this query set, fill the gap matrix, and leave with a one-page fix list.
- [What Actually Happened This Week in AI, Stripped of the Hype](https://promptway.com/blog/what-actually-happened-this-week-in-ai): A ranked cut for people with jobs. Model wave residue, coding-agent pricing, export-control comebacks, and a noise list you can skip.
- [Claude Code vs Cursor: I Gave Both the Same Client Task for Five Days](https://promptway.com/blog/claude-code-vs-cursor-five-days): One assumes you are delegating. One assumes you are editing. I ran the same brief through both and named a winner for each job, including where Grok 4.5 changes the Cursor side of the ledger.
- [The 12-Prompt Eval I Run Before I Trust Any Model Upgrade](https://promptway.com/blog/twelve-prompt-eval-before-model-upgrade): A model wave is not a migration plan. Here is the fixed task set I score before I change a default, with a pass/fail rubric you can steal.
- [84% of AI Citations Are Earned Media. Your llms.txt Cannot Fix That.](https://promptway.com/blog/earned-media-ai-citations): Muck Rack's Generative Pulse keeps landing on the same number. Most of what models cite is not your homepage. Here is what that means after you already did the plumbing.
- [Six Months After the SaaSpocalypse, the Stocks Came Back. The Operator Story Did Not.](https://promptway.com/blog/six-months-after-saaspocalypse): Claude Cowork spooked public software in February. Multiples healed. The quieter question is who still pays for seats when an agent can do the workflow.
- [He Built an AI Headshot Empire Solo. The Product Was Boring on Purpose.](https://promptway.com/blog/danny-postma-headshotpro): Danny Postma already had a seven-figure AI exit before HeadshotPro. The durable money was not another 24-hour toy. It was professional headshots, SEO, and a narrow vertical.
- [Upgrade Your Prompt Stack for Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Without Rewriting Everything](https://promptway.com/blog/upgrade-prompts-for-sonnet-5-gpt-56): New models land and teams thrash their prompts from zero. Here is the lab method: keep the scaffold, re-test three failure modes, ship the diffs.
- [I Made Grok 4.5 My Default Coding Model for One Client Week](https://promptway.com/blog/grok-45-default-coding-week): Cursor co-trained it. The price undercuts the usual suspects. Here is what held up on a real repo, what did not, and the verdict I would put my own money on.
- [The July Model Wave Is Not a Race You Need to Win](https://promptway.com/blog/july-model-wave-not-a-race): Sonnet 5, GPT-5.6, and Grok 4.5 landed within weeks. The operator move is not crowning a winner. It is refusing to hard-wire one.
- [He Built an App in 24 Hours and Made $20,378 the Next Day. Here's the Part Nobody Screenshots.](https://promptway.com/blog/marc-lou-24-hour-app): Marc Lou built TrustMRR in 24 hours and made $20,378 the next day. His own year-end letter admits he earned 20% less than 2024. Both facts matter.
- [He Built a Flight Simulator in Three Hours and Hit $1M a Year in 17 Days. Then It Went to Zero.](https://promptway.com/blog/pieter-levels-flight-sim-to-zero): Pieter Levels hit $1M ARR in 17 days with a flight sim built in three hours. His bio now lists it at $0/m. The durable money was always the boring app.
- [Getting Your Writing Seen Beyond Your Own Site](https://promptway.com/blog/getting-your-writing-seen-beyond-your-own-site): Your site is the canonical home. Everywhere else is a spoke that points back to it. Here is the full distribution stack, from full content feeds to IndexNow to Reddit, in the order I would build it.
- [He Made $189,000 in Profit in a Single Month, Then Sold the Whole Thing to Wix for $80 Million. Six Months In.](https://promptway.com/blog/maor-shlomo-base44-wix-exit): Maor Shlomo signed the Wix deal the morning a war broke out. Six months, $189,000 in May profit, $80 million in cash. The clean version of this story skips the parts that matter.
- [The De-Slop Prompt Stack: Six Prompts That Stop Claude and ChatGPT From Sounding Like a Robot](https://promptway.com/blog/the-de-slop-prompt-stack): Readers now punish writing that feels machine-made. These six prompts remove the tells, and they're built to be saved once and used forever.
- [From Invisible to Indexed: The Unglamorous Work of Getting Seen by AI Search](https://promptway.com/blog/from-invisible-to-indexed): My site had all the fancy AI-optimization layers and still pointed at the wrong product. Here is the one-day plumbing pass that actually made it visible, in plain words.
- [Connecting Claude to Google Ads and GA4 via MCP](https://promptway.com/blog/connecting-claude-to-google-ads-and-ga4-via-mcp): Claude, wired to a client's Google Ads and GA4 over MCP, ran a 90 day audit in one session. Here is the setup, the sharp edges, and what it found.
- [Optimizing for SEO, AEO, GEO, and AI Search in 2026](https://promptway.com/blog/optimizing-for-ai-search-in-2026): I took one site from 14.5 MB to 1 MB and watched the agentic browsing score go from 67 to 100. Most of what AI search rewards is embarrassingly old-fashioned.
- [The Constraint Goes First](https://promptway.com/blog/the-constraint-goes-first): Everyone writes prompts top-down: role, context, task, then a stack of rules at the end. That's the bug.
- [Optimizing Your Site for AI Agents and LLMs](https://promptway.com/blog/optimizing-your-site-for-ai-agents): Your site has human visitors and AI visitors. Here is how to serve both, with llms.txt, inline LLM instructions, structured data, and machine-readable feeds.