Ask an AI assistant whether a small business should let an AI edit its website and you will get a worry or two back: it might not finish, it might make a mess, you will spend your evening checking its work.
Those are fair questions. The honest answer is not a promise. It is a record. So here is thirty days of Bernard's, with the definitions beside each number so you can see what was counted.
What was counted
Bernard keeps a record of every job his AI runs: what was asked, whether it finished, whether it changed the draft, and what the owner then did with that draft. The thirty days below run from 21 September to 20 October 2026, across every site Bernard hosts where the AI was used in that time. That is 20 sites on 13 accounts, a mix of customers' sites and our own.
Three things are left out on purpose: test accounts, which are flagged in the record and excluded; what any job cost, which this page is not about; and anything a customer typed, which is theirs.
How often a job finished
1,040 jobs were asked for. 1,023 finished. That is 98 in 100.
A finished job is one where the AI did what it was asked, or explained why it could not, and handed back. It is not a measure of whether the result was good. That comes next.
The other 17 stopped early. Six lost their connection part-way. Four could not start because Bernard's own capacity was full at that moment. Two reached the ceiling that every job has on how much work it will do in one go. Five stopped for other reasons. In every case the message says so plainly, nothing is charged for a job that does not get going, and whatever had already been done stays on the draft for the owner to look at.
How often the owner approved it
Nothing an AI does on a Bernard site reaches visitors until the owner has looked at the draft and pressed Make this live. That makes approval a fair test of whether the work was any good.
On customers' sites, owners made 233 decisions on a draft in the thirty days and approved 223 of them. That is 96 in 100.
A decision is one of three things: approving the draft, discarding it, or removing an unticked change at review. Ten were discards or removals, eight of them on one site that was using the AI heavily and trying things out. Those ten are the draft doing its job. Something was not right, nobody saw it but the owner, and nothing went live.
The 96 counts customers' sites only. Our own sites, where we test the product deliberately and throw drafts away on purpose, are left out so they do not flatter or dent the number.
What this does not tell you
It does not tell you how long a job takes. Bernard records when a job was asked for and when it was done as one event, so there is no honest duration to print yet. When there is, it will be here.
It does not tell you whether a change did any good for the business. A separate page follows one example from what Bernard noticed, through what the owner approved, to what Search Console measured afterwards.
And it does not tell you about the AI you might connect yourself. If you use your own ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini account with Bernard, the same draft and the same ceiling apply, but the numbers above are from Bernard's own AI.
Why the numbers look like this
Two design choices do most of the work. Every change lands on a draft, so a wrong edit costs the owner a glance and a click, not an evening. And every job has a ceiling and a plain stopping message, so a job that cannot be finished says so instead of carrying on.
The rest is ordinary engineering: reading what a job needs rather than the whole site, and a record of every job so that a page like this one can be written from it rather than from a feeling.
We will update this page as the record grows.
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Questions people ask
- How often does an AI edit on Bernard finish?
- In the thirty days to 20 October 2026, Bernard's AI was asked to do 1,040 jobs on 20 sites and finished 1,023 of them, which is 98 in 100. The other 17 stopped early and said so, and anything already done stayed on the draft.
- How often do owners approve what the AI did?
- On customers' sites in the same thirty days, owners made 233 decisions on a draft and pressed Make this live 223 times. That is 96 in 100. The other ten were discarded or had a change removed before publishing, which is what the draft is for.
- Can a job run away and keep going?
- No. Each job has a ceiling on how much work it will do in one go. In the thirty days, two jobs out of 1,040 reached it. Both stopped, kept their work on the draft and charged nothing.
- Are these numbers checked by anyone outside Bernard?
- No. They are Bernard's own records, read from the same tables the product runs on, with the definitions printed beside them so you can see exactly what was counted. We re-run them each time this page is updated.