AI website lead generation for web designers

The workflow

1. Search: pick a category and city and run a search. Each result is checked for a working website and saved as a prospect.
2. Shortlist: keep businesses with no site or a dead site, a reachable phone number and a good rating.
3. Generate: create an AI preview site for each shortlisted business. It uses the business's own listing details, picks a template matched to its category, and produces an unlisted preview link.
4. Review: read and edit the copy. Replace placeholder testimonials and fix anything the business wouldn't say.
5. Reach out: send the link by email, text or WhatsApp, or reference it on a call.
6. Track: move the prospect through the pipeline (contacted, no response, responded, interested, won, lost) and add notes.

Why a preview beats a pitch

A business owner receives a lot of offers they can't evaluate. A link to a website with their own name, address, hours and photos on it is concrete: they can open it on their phone and react. That makes the reply "yes, how much?" or "no, thanks" rather than silence. It is a persuasion tactic, not a guarantee; response rates vary by market and message.

What a generated site includes

• AI-drafted headline, about, services and FAQ copy written from the business's listing details.
• A brand color palette chosen for the category and name.
• A template from a pool matched to the category (food and drink, trades and services, beauty and boutique).
• Business facts from the Google listing: name, category, phone, address, hours, photos, rating and review count.
• A contact form that relays to the owner's verified email.
• A preview link on a weblineup.com subdomain, with your client's own domain connectable later.

Each site is reachable at its own address, a weblineup.com subdomain until you connect the client's domain. Treat that address as public once you share it, and send it only to the business you built it for.

Run it from Claude or ChatGPT

The same loop works in conversation once WebLineup is connected: "Find 15 barbers in Leeds without a website, generate a site for the top three by rating, and draft an email for each." The assistant asks you to confirm before it spends search or site quota, and it drafts messages without sending them. See the Claude and ChatGPT guides.

Costs and quotas

Plans start at $49 per month. Starter: $49/month ($39/month billed yearly) - 1,000 leads and 25 generated sites per month, 15 custom domains. Growth: $129/month ($99/month billed yearly) - 5,000 leads and 75 generated sites per month, 40 custom domains. Agency: $299/month ($239/month billed yearly) - 20,000 leads and 300 generated sites per month, unlimited custom domains. Every plan includes the full product (search, generation, custom domains and the client pipeline); only the volume changes. There is no free trial and no setup call.

Leads count the new businesses a search saves; generated sites count the sites you create. Both reset each billing period.