My client keeps editing the app with AI and breaking it. What can I do?

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Agree in writing who may change the live app and ask the client to tell you when they publish. Then check the live app after each new version and on a schedule, so you hear about a broken sign-up, log-in or payment page before the client’s customers do. Keep a note of the last version that worked, so you can go back to it.

Why this happens

AI tools make it easy for a client to change their own app. A prompt about one page can change another, remove a form, or drop a setting the live site needs (see I asked my AI tool for a small change and something else broke). The client often doesn’t notice, because the page they asked about looks fine.

What to agree with the client

  • Who may publish changes to the live app, and who checks the key pages afterwards.
  • That the client tells you when they publish, or uses a preview first.
  • What your care plan covers when a client edit breaks something, and what you charge for it.
  • Where the last working version is kept, so it can be put back.

Check the live app after every change

After each new version, open the live app in a private window and try the sign-up, log-in and payment pages. Because clients don’t always tell you, also check on a schedule.

How Heedza helps, and what it cannot see

Heedza keeps a short record of each site’s home page. When it changes, a new version went live, so Heedza checks the home, sign-up, log-in and payment pages soon after, as well as on its schedule. If one breaks, you get a picture of the page and a fix written for the AI tool the client used, so you or the client can paste it in.

It cannot see what changed in the code, and it never signs in, fills in forms or pays, so it can’t tell you whether a real sign-up or payment goes through. See Heedza for agencies.

Let Heedza check this for you. Heedza’s plan for agencies checks up to 30 client sites from one dashboard, sends the alerts to you, and gives you white label client reports and status pages on Business. It never logs in or fills in forms, so it can’t see errors that only show after that.

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More questions

Can Heedza tell me who made the change?

No. It sees the live site from outside, so it knows a new version went live and what stopped working, not who changed it.

Can I give the client the fix to paste in?

Yes. Each alert has a fix written for the AI tool you picked for that site. You can send it to the client or paste it in yourself.

Does the client get the alert?

No. Alerts go to your account. You decide what to tell the client.