A good revenue week doesn’t erase a packed delivery schedule. With September only days away, we had several client launches moving at once, and we needed to keep Mañana No Mas on its promise: on time, under budget.
At the same time, we spent nearly a full day testing AI website tools for our own site. The experiments produced useful positioning ideas, but they also showed how easily a busy agency can lose focus before anything is finished.
A September Rush With Real Client Work
We had a strong couple of revenue weeks, but many clients wanted everything to launch in September. That included an educational platform for a school, an e-commerce website, and an MVP in the medical space.
The school already had hundreds of courses, but its content was difficult to navigate. Students needed a clear way to understand what they could access and find the courses they wanted.
Building Structure Before Content Arrives
We built categorized course menus, tags, search functions, and the website sections needed to organize the school library. The structure is designed so that when the school adds a new course and applies the categories and tags we set up, that course automatically appears in the appropriate catalogs and searchable areas.
We also teach the team how to use that structure. The remaining variable is client content. Once it is loaded into the site, we can validate that the full system works as intended.
Content delays also affected the e-commerce project and medical MVP. However, the final days before launch are about getting each remaining piece in place, then testing it properly.
Fitness Begins With Food We Want to Eat
Fitness, for us, includes eating whole food that tastes good enough to make restaurant food less appealing. We ordered a large case of Hatch green chilies from a family farm in Hatch, New Mexico, where we first got attached to them while living there.
Instead of using the large propane roasting cages common in New Mexico, we roasted our chilies over charcoal and wood. The chilies already have great flavor, but the smoke added another layer.
We also connect foods such as chilies, jalapenos, and cayenne to fitness because they can support weight-loss efforts. More broadly, we want to buy food as close to the farm as possible.
- We roasted Hatch green chilies over charcoal and wood.
- We used fresh garden vegetables and herbs in dinner.
- We made meatballs at home.
- We added fresh garlic, rosemary, thyme, and cracked pepper.
- We saved up to buy half a cow rather than rely only on grocery-store meat.
A Pasta Dinner That Restaurants Can’t Replicate
The night before, we made pasta with canned tomato sauce, red wine, homemade meatballs, fresh rosemary, thyme, sea salt, Himalayan salt, black pepper, cayenne, and fresh garlic.
The sauce went over garden-fresh zucchini, onion, and kale. We added the chiffonaded kale last so it would stay fresh rather than turn soft and mushy.
A typical affordable chain restaurant can make food that tastes good for the price. Still, it rarely delivers the snap of fresh zucchini, the crunch of onion, or the caramelization that makes a meal feel like it came straight from the garden.
Farm-to-table restaurants can do excellent work. However, home cooking gives us more control over the ingredients, the flavor, and the cost.
What Mañana No Mas Builds
Mañana No Mas builds enterprise-level WordPress learning websites, membership sites, community platforms, startup e-commerce projects, and local business websites. We have worked with a car repair center, a tree-cutting business, and a business directory for a town outside Hutchinson.
We enjoy helping startups get launched. However, enterprise eLearning projects are where we get especially excited, because the work reaches people who need training at scale.
A recent project, PF University, put courses in front of college students. That is more meaningful to us than simply putting another website online.
We view Mañana No Mas as a business consulting house where the website is often the final product.
Our work starts with a needs assessment. Then we build the platform, train the people who will manage it, answer questions in interactive Zoom sessions, and offer ongoing support. That can include end-user support, public relations assistance, social media babysitting, and other Digital Marketing work.
We run our own training business through Power Sport Academy, so we understand the operational side of managing a learning management system. We don’t hand over a website and disappear.
Rebuilding the Agency Website Caused a Loss of Focus
We have rebuilt the Mañana No Mas website six or seven times over nearly two decades. Each version reflected a different period of the business.
One earlier version focused on BuddyBoss. Another looked like a newspaper during a period when we were focused on public relations. That newspaper-style site was visually our favorite, but visitors couldn’t quickly tell what we sold. It had stories about racing, mountain biking, Italy, and Japan, yet it didn’t clearly say what the agency did.
The current site no longer feels like us. We don’t like its performance, page speed, or the way it functions. We had even paid for new homepage copy, but the larger site experience still wasn’t right.
Trying HWP, Bricks, Astra, and Elementor
We started with HWP because it had a lot of attention as a newer builder. Yet client work got busier, and every attempt to learn the platform left us further behind.
The sequence became a distraction:
- We opened a new WordPress install and tried HWP.
- We looked at Bricks, where none of our old templates or starting points existed.
- We returned to Astra, a familiar option for our client work.
- Meanwhile, we coached a client on managing an existing Elementor site built by another designer.
Coaching someone through Elementor made sense because they already had that website. Rebuilding our own site with unfamiliar tools did not move as quickly.
The AI Experiment Produced Ideas, Not a Finished Site
We spent about half a day trying to connect Claude to HWP. We watched a 72-minute YouTube tutorial, searched documentation, installed Node.js, created directories, used the Mac Terminal, and then hit prompts about GitHub.
The central question was simple: could these tools connect in a useful way? The process did not give us a simple answer.
Then Claude opened a different path. It asked about our name, role, company, website, powersports experience, marine training, and related work. The result was a one-page business review that clarified our message.
It described Mañana No Mas as an operator who builds enterprise-grade learning, community, and commerce platforms, then trains teams to run them. That was closer to the message we wanted our website to communicate.
We help people make a lot of money. The consulting relationship is often worth more than the website itself.
A Lovable Prototype Has Limits
We pasted Claude’s business document into Lovable and asked it to build a website. It generated a polished prototype with a motorcycle hero image, our logo, a headshot, and language built around ownership.
“Own your platform, stop renting it.”
The prototype accurately covered our WordPress work, our live academy, our experience with Ducati and Suzuki, and our work moving clients away from rented SaaS platforms such as Circle, Kajabi, Mighty Networks, and Skool.
We also prompted Lovable to send its “Book a Call” buttons to our chat page. It could make changes, explain them, and refresh the preview.
Still, the site was not finished. We wanted to move sections, add buttons, connect the contact form to a real back end, and build a portfolio with screenshots and links to client projects.
Getting close to a finished website is different from having a finished website.
AI can create a useful one-page lead magnet on a temporary URL, then send social traffic back to a main site. That feels like a practical use case. Building and maintaining an entire agency website through an AI tool requires more focus, testing, and technical follow-through than the early demo suggests.
Freedom Means Being Able to Help
We spent a full day with AI tools while client work waited. We came away with samples, ideas, and stronger messaging, but no completed agency website. That is the focus part of Fitness, Focus, Freedom Friday.
Freedom showed up in a simpler moment. We went outside to mow our front yard and noticed the adjacent section of our neighbor’s yard had become overgrown, so we mowed that part too.
The next day, our neighbor thanked us and explained that his lawn mower had blown a head gasket. While he went to the doctor, we took our John Deere over and finished the yard.
That is the freedom we want from self-employment. We want to be able to stop for someone with a flat tire, help a person who needs a wheel removed, cook hamburgers for college-age church members on a Monday afternoon, and complete client work later that evening if needed.
Finishing the Week Strong
We had ribeyes thawing for Saturday and a brisket planned for the smoker from Saturday into Sunday. Good food, active projects, and control over our time all fit the same Friday theme.
We want to finish client work well, keep customers happy, earn referrals, and continue growing. Most of all, freedom means having enough control over our day to treat people the way we would want to be treated.