How to get a client's feedback on a website you built with AI

You built a site for a café, a coach, or a local shop with ChatGPT or Claude, and it works on your laptop. Before it goes out, the owner has to check it. An attached HTML file often won't run on their phone: in our test of the iPhone Files preview, no scripts ran and no web images loaded (details). Screenshots look right, but nobody can tap the menu or try the booking form.

Show them the real page instead, and plan the round so their feedback turns into a fix in one pass. This guide covers both ways to show a draft, a review request you can adapt, a short checklist for the client, and how each revision reaches them at the same link.

Choose how the client sees the draft

Decide this first, because it decides which link you use.

Together, on a call or in person. Open the page's private preview from the dashboard and share your screen, or hand over your phone. Nothing is public, and nobody outside the call sees it. The preview link expires after 3 minutes, so it's for showing, never for sending; click Open preview again whenever you need a fresh one. The page's buttons and scripts run in the preview, but test entries sent from a preview form aren't saved.

On their own time. Publish the page and send its address. The client taps the link on any phone, with no account and no app. Who can open it depends on your answer to Who can open this page? when you publish:

Convika marks a Private link page noindex and leaves it out of the page's sitemap. Google's documentation says that with noindex, "Google will drop that page entirely from Google Search results." After the right password, a browser stays unlocked for 7 days. On Free, you can keep a Public page out of the gallery: in Page settings, under Who can open this page, tick Don't show this page in the gallery. It may still show up in search results.

If you're unsure, send the review link. Clients often open a link hours or a day later, and by then a preview link has long expired.

Ways to show a draft, compared

Run one review round in 5 steps

1. Put the draft on Convika and check it on your phone

In the dashboard, click Upload an HTML file, drop the file or paste the code, and click Create my preview. On the page's screen, click Open preview and go through the page on your own phone first. Fix what you find before the client sees it: their attention is better spent on facts only they know.

If the page has a form, make sure it sends somewhere. A form an AI wrote may post to nowhere; this guide shows how to add a Convika form that collects entries.

2. Publish the review link

Skip this step if you're only showing the page on a call. Otherwise, click Publish page and choose who can open it under Who can open this page?. On Pro, the button under the question publishes the page with that access. On Free, the button is Next at your workspace's first publish and Publish after that:

• Public: at the first publish, Next shows Publish free. Click it, and the page goes live at once with the Convika bar at the bottom. A new workspace on Free has 1 live page at a time, which matters if you review several clients' sites at once.
• Private link or Only people with the password: the button opens the order for Pro monthly. If your workspace qualifies for Pro's card trial (its first subscription, with this month's page views under 80% of the limit), the button reads Subscribe, free for 1 day, and Pro costs $12 a month after that unless you cancel. Without the trial, Checkout charges the monthly price. The page goes live with the access you chose once the trial starts or the payment goes through. For the password itself, see how to password protect an HTML page.

Copy the address from Live URL on the page's screen. It looks like yourpage.convika.page.

3. Send the address with a short review request

Say what kind of draft it is, what to check, and how to reply. An example to adapt:

Subject: Your website draft is ready to check (round 1)

Hi Sam,

Here's the draft of the new café site: https://yourpage.convika.page
Please open it on your phone. You don't need an account.

Could you check these by Thursday?
1. Opening hours, prices, address, and phone number
2. Tap every button: Book a table, Call us, Directions
3. Send the contact form once with your own email
4. Photos and the logo: right ones, OK to use?

For each change, reply with the section number shown in the
heading, what's wrong, and what it should say. A screenshot
helps too.

When it all looks right, a quick "approved" is enough.

It's an example: the name, link, and items are placeholders.

4. Turn all the feedback into one revision

Collect every comment from the round first, then make one revision instead of many small ones. In the same AI conversation that made the page, paste the feedback with this:

Here is my client's feedback on the page. Make exactly these changes
and keep everything else as it is.

[paste the client's reply]

Give me the complete updated page as one HTML file, from <!DOCTYPE html>
to </html>, nothing shortened. After the code, list each change in one
line, numbered the same way as the feedback.

The numbered list at the end lets you check each request against the result.

5. Publish the revision at the same link and tell the client

On the page's screen, under Update from an HTML file, click Upload a new version and upload the file. Check the new version with Open preview, then click Publish v2 at the same link (with your version number) and Publish in the dialog. The client's link now opens the revision. Reply in the same thread with the change list and ask them to reload the page. The full steps, including how to compare two versions, are in how to update a page without changing its URL.

If Claude or ChatGPT is connected to Convika over MCP, paste the feedback there instead and ask it to update the page on Convika. It saves the revision as a new version of the same page and returns a preview link for you, which expires after 1 hour. It publishes only when you tell it to.

A focused checklist for the client

Keep the client on what only they can judge. Pick the items that fit the site:

• Facts. Business name, prices, opening hours, address, phone number, dates, and the names of people and products.
• On their phone. Text is readable without zooming, nothing runs off the screen, and the first screen says what the business does.
• Every button and link. Each one goes where its label says: the booking page, the map, the menu. A phone number should start a call when tapped.
• The form. One test entry with their own email. On the published page you'll see it under View entries on the page's screen. If nothing arrives, see why an AI-made form sends nothing.
• Photos, logo, and text they supplied. The right files, and permission to use each one.
• What's missing. Anything a customer would ask before booking or buying.

Make feedback easy to act on

Convika has no comments, approval buttons, or task lists on the page. Feedback and sign-off happen in your email or chat thread, so set the thread up to carry them.

• Number the sections for the review. Ask your AI: "Put a small number before each section heading: 1, 2, 3." The client can then write "3: we close at 2 pm on Saturdays." Remove the numbers in the final version.
• Ask for 3 things per change: the section, what's wrong, and what it should say. That text goes straight into the revision prompt above.
• Ask for screenshots from the phone. On an iPhone with Face ID, Apple's steps are "Press the side button and the volume up button at the same time." On Android, Google's help says "Press the Power and Volume down buttons at the same time."
• One reply per round. A list in one message is easier to turn into one revision than 6 messages over 2 days.

Keep track of rounds without a project tool

• Name the file for the round. Upload cafe-site-round-2.html rather than index (3).html. Convika numbers each version (v1, v2, v3) and shows the uploaded file's name under it in Version History, so you can see which version answered which round.
• Send a change note with each round. "Round 2 is live at the same link: Saturday hours fixed, new hero photo, booking button goes to the new form. Reload the page to see it."
• Record the approval in the thread. When the client replies "approved", note the version it refers to, for example v4. Convika doesn't record approvals.
• Go back if a round made things worse. In Version History, click Roll back to this version on the earlier one, then Restore. The address stays the same.

After the client signs off

1. Remove what was only for the review, such as the section numbers, and publish the clean version at the same link.
2. Take the password off, if the review used one. In Page settings, under Page password, click Remove password and confirm. Changing who can open the page doesn't remove a password; only this does.
3. Decide who can open the final page. If it should be found in search, open Page settings and, under Who can open this page, choose Public. The change applies the next time the page is opened.
4. Put it on the client's domain if they have one. On the page's screen, click Connect my domain under Custom domain, enter an address such as www.example.com, and click Add domain. Free includes 1 custom domain.
5. Open it as a visitor would. Use a private browsing window, or a phone that never had the password, and open the live address. It should show the approved version, with no password screen unless you kept one on purpose.

Then watch the first page views come in. The page's screen shows page views by day with country, device, and the site people came from; see how to see who visits your page. It doesn't show names, and your own page views count too.

Frequently asked questions

How do I send a client a preview link for a website?

Send the published address, not the preview link. Convika's preview link expires after 3 minutes, so it's for showing the page on a call or in person. For a review on the client's own time, publish the page with Private link (Pro) or Public (Free), and send its address. The client opens it with no account.

How do I share a website draft without it showing up on Google?

Publish it as a Private link or with Only people with the password, both on Pro. Convika marks a Private link page noindex and keeps it out of the page's sitemap and Convika's gallery; with a password, search engines see only the password screen. A Public page on Free can show up in search results.

Can my client leave comments on the page?

Not in Convika: it has no comments, approval buttons, or task lists on the page. Collect feedback by email or chat. Number the sections for the review so the client can write "section 3: change the price", and ask for phone screenshots where a picture is clearer.

Will the link change after I make their changes?

No. Upload the revised file as a new version of the same page and publish it with Publish v2 at the same link (with your version number). The address you sent opens the revision. Ask the client to reload the page if they still have it open.

Does my client need a Convika account?

No. A published page opens in any phone or computer browser with no account or app. With Only people with the password, they also need the password you give them.

Can I see whether my client opened it?

You can see that someone did, not who. The page's screen shows page views by day with country, device, and the site people came from, but no names or email addresses. Your own page views count too, and a preview records no page view.

Sources

• Block Search indexing with noindex (Google Search Central), read on October 26, 2026
• Take a screenshot on your iPhone (Apple Support), read on October 26, 2026
• Take a screenshot or record your screen on your Android device (Android Help), read on October 26, 2026