What's the 'made with bernard' badge on my site?
Look at the bottom-right corner of your live site and you'll see a small pill that says made with bernard. Here's exactly what it is, what it does — and doesn't do — and what to do if you'd rather not show it.
What it is
The badge is a quiet credit line: a small link back to bernardmoves.com, in bernard's colours, sitting in the corner of your published pages. It's added at publish time, on top of your pages rather than inside them — your actual content never contains it, and nothing you or your AI edit has to work around it.
It's deliberately lightweight. There is no script, no cookie, no tracking — it's a plain link with its styling written inline, a few hundred bytes that have no effect on how fast your pages load or on your visitors' privacy. If you're careful about what runs on your site (see What does bernard do with my data, and is it GDPR-compliant?), the badge doesn't move that needle at all.
Why it's there
Every bernard site carries it, whatever the plan — paying doesn't switch it off, because the badge was never a thing being sold back to you. It works the other way around: keeping it is rewarded. The badge is part of bernard's advocacy programme — when someone spots it on your site, follows it, and ends up moving their own site in, that discovery is credited to you and earns you shells, the same shells that pay for Bernard's editing work.
So the badge isn't a watermark you're meant to want gone. It's the sign on a house a good builder worked on — and the builder pays you rent for keeping it up.
If you'd rather not show it
That's fine, and you don't need to give a reason. Email [email protected] and ask for the badge to be removed from your site. It comes off with a republish — live within minutes — and the change is recorded in your account activity, the same trail that covers every approved change (see How do I approve or undo changes?).
Nothing else on your site changes: because the badge sits on top of your pages, removing it touches no content, no layout, no history. And it isn't a one-way door — if you later decide you'd like it (and the shells) back, ask again and it returns the same way.
The prompt
“Explain the small 'made with bernard' badge in the corner of my site — what it's for, whether it affects my visitors or slows anything down, and how I ask for it to be removed if I'd rather not show it.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Connect bernard to your AI over MCP — a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI — then paste the prompt above.
Questions people ask
- What is the badge in the corner of my site?
- A small pill reading 'made with bernard' in the bottom-right corner of your live pages, linking to bernardmoves.com. It's added when your site is published — it isn't part of your page content, and your AI never has to work around it.
- Does the badge slow my site down or track my visitors?
- No. It's a plain link with its styling written inline — no script runs, no cookie is set, nothing about your visitors is collected. It weighs a few hundred bytes and has no effect on your page speed.
- Do I get anything for keeping it?
- Yes. The badge is part of bernard's advocacy programme: when someone discovers bernard through your site and moves in, that's credited to you and earns you shells — the same shells that pay for Bernard's editing work. Keeping the badge is rewarded, never required.
- Can I have it removed?
- Yes — just ask. Email [email protected] and we'll turn it off for your site; the change goes out with a republish within minutes, and it's recorded in your account activity like any approved change. Paying doesn't remove it automatically and you don't need to give a reason — asking is enough, and you can ask for it back later.
- Will removing the badge change anything else on my site?
- No. The badge sits on top of your pages rather than inside them, so turning it off touches nothing else — your content, layout and history all stay exactly as they were, and the republish that removes it is recorded so you can see when it happened.