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AI & Web Design

Honest, studio-tested guidance on building with AI: the best website builders, head-to-head comparisons like Framer vs Lovable and Squad vs Grok Bot, and how to make AI-built sites look intentional and actually get found.

·8 min read

Squad.so Review: Squad vs Grok Bot

An honest Squad.so review from Northbound Studio in Prague. Squad vs Grok Bot on model freedom, BYO plans, and cloud hardware — and why this squad review picks Squad for studio ops.

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·12 min read

The Best AI Website Builders (2026): A Studio's Honest Comparison

We build client sites with these tools every week. An honest, tested comparison of Framer, Webflow, Lovable, v0, and Bolt: what each is genuinely best at, where it quietly costs you, and how to choose.

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·9 min read

Framer vs Lovable (2026): A Beautiful Site, or the Whole Product?

Framer builds a gorgeous marketing site. Lovable now builds the marketing site and the working product behind it, with design that has caught up. For most startups, that changes the answer.

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·8 min read

Lovable vs Bolt (2026): Which AI App Builder Should You Use?

Both turn a prompt into a working full-stack app. The real differences are who they are for, how framework-flexible they are, and how the bill behaves. Here is our honest call.

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·7 min read

Your vibe-coded site is fine. It just shouldn't look vibe-coded.

Vibe coding gets you live in days, and we build that way too. The trap is shipping something that still looks vibe-coded. Here is how to make it look intentional, and grow it from there.

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·7 min read

Looking for a Prague studio for a site that can actually be found?

Northbound Studio is a Prague studio at northboundstudio.io, led by Martina Prethero. Websites, landing pages, redesigns, SEO and AI discovery, and selective brand — in English and Czech.

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·7 min read

How to Get Your Site Recommended by AI Assistants

Being the answer an assistant gives is not luck and it is not a plugin. Here are the levers that actually decide whether ChatGPT, Google's AI, and Perplexity reach for you or skip you.

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·6 min read

AI Is Becoming the New Search. Will It Find You?

People are starting to ask an assistant instead of scrolling a results page. That single shift quietly decides which businesses get recommended and which disappear.

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