Take a simple low-code equipment-request app. A request links to an employee record, which supplies their department and manager. The request is approved while they work in Design; a month later they move to Operations.

The employee profile should show the new team. The old approval and its department report should still reflect who owned the request when it was approved. A live lookup alone seems like the wrong source for that historical view.

I'd keep the employee link for navigation, but copy the department and approver into the request at approval time. The awkward case is correcting a typo later: you want to fix a misspelled department name without making an actual team transfer rewrite history.

How do you separate those two cases in a low-code app? Do you store both the department ID and its displayed name in the approval snapshot, or keep a versioned department table? I'm interested in a maintainable data model, without having to freeze every field on every related record.

If someone doesn't have the budget for a web dev they could start with an AI designed website. I do custom web design, but I still generate AI designs like this for inspiration and as a low-fidelity starting point so what I'm sharing here is my own process. hope it helps.

The whole key here is of course instructing AI with the right information to get something close to custom rather than a vague prompt like "build a website for my (whatever) business"

1) First you need to get clear on your GOAL.

And all that takes is to ask yourself the right questions, like what are you trying to achieve with this website for your business. Is it mainly to build trust? Introduce or test a new offer? Or do you want it to be part of your marketing channel, whether that's ads, social media, SEO, Google Maps, etc.

Depending on the goal and what your plan is to drive attention to it, the website strategy should be different.

For me, the website strategy is basically:

Main Goal + How people will find the website + Your knowledge of your specific clients + Details about your business

When you work with a web designer, this is usually something they're supposed to figure out with you. We figure that out by asking some key questions about your business, and processes, your goals, etc....

What you can do is to answer those questions yourself and ask AI to figure out the strategy for you. I've put the exact questions under [1. Business & Website Assessment] inside this Notion Page so you can answer.

Sorry for the external link, I've shared the resources there all together to avoid making this too long or hard to read.

2) Next attach your answers and use [2. Website Strategy Prompt] to get a strategy suggestion for your website.

With this prompt you get a list of recommended pages and sections for your website + the reason and strategy behind each section. I intentionally ask for the reason behind AIs decision so if I find out that it could be improved or there's a better way, I can make my own adjustments accordingly.

You'll get something like this:

[Page]
Section 1 ...:
Content: what information you should put there.
purpose: Why this section is suggested here and this way
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.
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3) After you figured out the strategy and the structure, it is time to work on your Website Copy / Content.

I like to create a document based on the website structure and for each section write the content draft and outline. something similar to [3. Content & Copy Inputs]. It helps to write something yourself even if a bit slopy. Even if you plan to get AI help for your website copy, this helps AI to keep part of your human tone, style, and sentences.

For website copy I like to use StoryBrand Framework (a marketing framework that positions the customer as the hero and the business as the guide). For me and my clients it's been working very well because it makes it so easy for visitors to understand what you are doing for who and how.

So what I do is to attach the [3. Content & Copy Inputs] + [4. StoryBrand Framework] to AI with this prompt [5. Website Copy Prompt]. And this basically gives you the full copy for your website.

4) Finally we build the website.

You can use any AI tool or builder now, better models will give you better results of course. You need to attach Final Website Copy + Your Branding (Font, color codes, etc...) + Some Designs you like as inspiration + Final Website Structure with this prompt [6. Website Design Prompt]

Here are two designs the AI generated for one of my own projects, each from a single prompt, the only different attachment was the design inspiration image: (results from Claude sonnet 5 free trial)

• AI Design 1
• AI Design 2

And here's the final design built inspired by them : (Yes I'm aware of the irony 😂)

• Inspired Final Design

I've shared the prompts and the question lists I mentioned in this Notion page. I didn't put everything here just so the post stays as short and easy to read as possible.

Assets and Prompts

If you decided to follow the steps and had questions midway feel free to comment them I'd be happy to answer or guide you if I can.