Can visitors search a list on my site?
Anyone scanning a page of thirty coaches, sixty stockists or two hundred alumni ends up doing the same thing — hunting with their eyes, or reaching for Ctrl+F. A page like that wants to behave like a directory, and on a bernard-hosted site, that's a single ask, not a rebuild.
What you get
- Filter chips for whatever actually distinguishes one entry from another — region, specialty, cohort year, anything that's already on the page.
- An A-to-Z for long lists, so nobody has to scroll past sixty names to find one.
- A search box, live on the page, so a visitor can just type a name and jump straight to it.
How the conversation goes
Tell your AI — ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini — which page is the list, and ask it to make it searchable. It reads the cards that are already there and proposes a small, sensible set of filter categories, then checks them with you before building anything. You confirm or correct, it hands you a preview, you approve, and it's live.
Got a spreadsheet instead?
If your list only exists as a spreadsheet — members, stockists, alumni — share it in the chat and ask your AI to turn it into a page, one entry per row. The spreadsheet is only needed once; from then on the page stands on its own, and the same conversation makes it filterable and searchable, exactly as if it had started life as a page.
What stays untouched
Your design doesn't change — the cards you already have are also what the filters and search look through, so there's nothing extra to design and nothing separate to maintain. And because nothing goes live until you approve the preview, you always see exactly what changed before anyone else does.
The prompt
“Make my [stockists / members / classes] page searchable and filterable — suggest filter categories from what's already on the page, and check them with me before you build anything.”
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
- Do I need a database or a plugin?
- No. The page itself carries everything — the cards visitors already see are also what the filters and search look through. There's nothing separate to keep in sync and nothing that can go stale.
- Can I choose the filter categories?
- Yes — your AI proposes a small set of categories from what's already on the page and asks you to confirm or correct them before building anything.
- Will this change my live site straight away?
- No. The work happens on a draft you preview first; nothing is live until you approve it, and bernard keeps a full year of history besides. One honest note: the search box itself only appears once the page is live — the preview shows you the filters and the A-to-Z.
- I have a spreadsheet of members — can that become a directory?
- Yes. Share the spreadsheet in the chat and your AI will build a page from it — one entry per row — then make that page filterable and searchable. The spreadsheet is only needed once; after that, the page stands on its own.