About this guide
Who publishes it
The Croftweaver Guide is published by Croftweaver, an open-source toolkit for building small-business websites with an AI assistant. The guide stands on its own: everything in it applies whatever you build your site with. At the end of each self-test, one line says that Croftweaver can make the fixes.
The guide carries no ads and no paid placements.
Who writes it
Daniel Melter, in Munich, maintains Croftweaver. He co-founded M-Squad in 2001 and leads it today, and has worked in product development for mobile and telecom for more than 20 years. He also co-organizes the GenAI Wednesday community in Munich; building its website is where Croftweaver began. More about him on croftweaver.com/about.
Found a mistake, or have a question? Write to hello [at] croftweaver [dot] com. Every correction goes into the list at the bottom of this page.
How AI helped
An AI assistant (Claude, by Anthropic) did much of the research and wrote the first drafts. Here is what that means in practice:
- AI research assistants opened every source page and copied the exact words; a second pass re-read each quote from the page itself, because AI summaries of pages were sometimes wrong.
- A script also compares the quotes it can read with those copies whenever a page changes. Shorter quotes, and the quotes on What we searched, are checked by hand.
- A second AI (Codex, by OpenAI) reviewed the tone. Daniel read and approved every page.
How we check what we say
- Every claim names its source and links it. "Google says …" means a page by Google says it. The date in the link is the date that page gives for itself.
- Studies come with who did them and who paid. We copy both from the study. When a study doesn't say, we write "who paid: not stated".
- When we find no source, we say so, with we found no published … and a link to a dated record of what we searched.
- Our own opinions say "we suggest". Everything else on a page has a source.
- Every page shows when we last checked it. We plan to re-check every page's sources every three months.
Our own experiment
We publish this guide as a new site, and record how long Google, Bing and AI assistants take to find it, with our own actions on the same timeline. See How long it takes.
Corrections
| Date | Page | What was wrong | What we changed |
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| — | — | No corrections yet | — |
Checked on 3 November 2026.