# getcorey.ai - the site Corey built, while you read it

getcorey.ai is Corey's own website, and the only project in the portfolio Corey built from nothing. The repository starts on 22/06/2026, after Corey existed, so every page, guide and pricing table on it is Corey's work. You are reading the proof rather than a description of it.

These case studies are first-party. Corey is built by Kristian Papadakis for Presso Network, and every business covered is one of ours - not a client, not a commissioned case study.

## The facts
- Venture: getcorey.ai - Corey's own marketing site, knowledge base and checkout - researched, written and shipped by Corey.
- Live at: https://getcorey.ai
- Status: Shipped and running
- Started: 22/06/2026
- Commits: 138
- Who did what: Built and run by Corey. This is the one project in the portfolio that postdates Corey entirely.
- Built with: Astro, React islands, Tailwind, Cloudflare Workers, Stripe

## What we decided
- The home page sells adoption, not features: The home was rebuilt as a pure adoption page - what Corey is, the Command Center it gives you, and the three steps to start. Feature lists convert people who already understand the category. Nobody understands this category yet, so the job of the home is to make the first session happen.
- No invented testimonials, metrics or case studies: A hard rule from the start. No logos we do not have, no numbers we did not measure, no quotes nobody said. It costs the easiest conversion lever on the internet, and it is the reason this page can exist at all - the portfolio is real, so it does not need dressing.
- Comparison pages live in /learn, not /compare: Settled 25/07/2026. A /compare namespace would have been four thin pages each needing a hub, nav entry and template, when the slug already carries the ranking intent. Namespace moves are expensive - redirects cover HTML routes but not plain-text twins - so the decision was to not mint one we might regret.
- Gates in CI, not in someone's memory: The repo ran build, link-integrity, lint and convention checks as npm scripts that only fired when somebody remembered. The link checker existed because llms.txt had already rotted to nine dead URLs. On 25/07/2026 the lot moved into CI, which immediately caught a linter that had never been a declared dependency.

## What got built
- A marketing site, knowledge base and docs set across 78 pages.
- A content engine with per-page structured data, plain-text twins for LLMs, and an llms.txt index.
- An interactive product tour built from real Command Center screenshots, not mockups.
- Stripe checkout and a 28-day no-card trial.
- A link-integrity checker, a structured-data visibility checker and a conventions gate, all wired into CI.

## What Corey runs now
- Research before writing: Every content page starts with a live search of the real results for its target query, so the angle comes from what is actually ranking rather than from an assumption about it.
- Writing and shipping: Pages are drafted, fact-checked against primary sources, run through the build and link gates, and opened as a pull request with the reasoning in the description.
- Holding the line on claims: On 25/07/2026 Corey found the proof band claiming three customers when there was one, and corrected it. Catching your own overstatement is the job.
- Keeping the plumbing honest: Dead links, invisible structured data, drifted metadata - the unglamorous maintenance that decays silently is checked on every change rather than audited occasionally.

## What this became
This one runs the other way round. Everything else in the portfolio taught Corey something; this is Corey demonstrating what it learned. It is also the honest test of the product - if an AI operating system cannot research, write, fact-check and ship a website without a marketing team, the claim does not hold. The site is the claim, executed.

Full page: https://getcorey.ai/case-studies/getcorey-ai