I review AI tools by building with them.
No press-release rewrites. I sign up like a normal user, build something real, screen-record every step and track what it costs.
What you get in every review:
1. Setup time from sign-up to first result
2. Real builds, not demo clicks
3. Cost receipts, credit by credit
4. What works and what breaks, with screenshots
5. A straight verdict
Example: I tested Zite with 4 business apps and 4 prompts, on 8.8 of 50 free credits. The dashboard maths was exactly right, and the first click on the live order form did nothing. Both made the review.
Brands get my findings before I post, so they can fix issues first.
Tools I cover: AI agents, agent tools and APIs, automation, AI video and image generation.
Building an AI tool? Paid collabs only, DMs open.
Nobody tells you this when you start making AI video:
Your first 20 clips will be bad.
The face will change.
The hands will be strange.
You will spend more time fixing than making.
Everyone who is good at it went through the same thing.
Keep going. We fix one problem a day here. Follow NEXTGEN.
What was the first AI clip you were actually proud of? Drop it below.
What boring task would you hand to an AI helper first?
Replying to messages. Posting on social media. Tracking money in and out. Research before a big decision.
Reply with yours. Next week we build one together.
An AI agent is a helper that does a task for you step by step, not just chats. Tell us the task you repeat most each week.
Your AI voiceover sounds like a sat nav reading a funeral notice.
It is usually the script, not the voice.
Short sentences.
"It's", not "it is".
A comma wherever you need a breath.
A voice built for conversation, not news.
Save this.
Paste one line from your script below and we will rewrite it so it sounds human.
I built a GTA Vice City style game with AI.
Neon streets, cars and an open map, made by chatting with AI on @CreaoAI, no game engine and no coding in hours.
Meet CREAO Vice City 2026.
This is my entry for the Loadout AI Game Competition @loadoutprotocol
What should I add next?
I spent $0 and 55 of 70 free credits testing @wireflowai.
The ad images were good and my product stayed the same. Then one run charged 16 credits when the node said 12.
Access: free account with Google sign-in. The app gave me 70 credits on the Free plan (pricing says up to 60). No card, no referral, no promo code.
What I tested
Easy: text to image, water bottle ad with the headline "Stay cold for 24 hours". 18 s, 5 credits
Typical: my own bottle photo into a lifestyle ad. 28 s, 16 credits (shown 12)
Hard: 5 s video with Wan 3.0 from my ad. About 2 min, first video free (shown ~29 credits)
Extra: ask the chat for square, story and wide versions. 31 s, 34 credits for 2 of 3
What it does well
→ Text spelled right in every image
→ Kept my bottle, color, bamboo band and logo
→ Every download free, no watermark
→ One free first video, 480x854
What it does badly
→ Charged 16 credits when the node showed 12
→ The AI chat dropped my headline from the prompt
→ Adds badges and taglines I did not ask for
→ Asked for square, got 4:3
→ Headline fades out of the free video
→ Your next video needs a plan
→ Story size skipped: 3 x 17 = 51 credits, I had 49
Pricing as listed
Free $0 (up to 60 starter credits)
Starter $36/mo (2,660 credits)
Professional $59/mo (4,370 credits)
Team $299/mo (22,140 credits)
Annual: 2 months free
Scores
Text to image 7/10
Product photo to ad 7/10
Image to video 6/10
Batch variants 6/10
Free tier value 6/10
Credit clarity 4/10
Speed and UI 7/10
Verdict 6.1/10
Use it for quick product ad images on a free account.
Skip it if you need more than one free video or exact costs before you run.
What I would fix first
→ Charge what the node shows
→ Keep my prompt and headline
→ Use the size written in the prompt
→ Make the pricing page match the app
Tip: run one node at a time on Free, and check the credit balance after each run. Bookmark this before you sign up.
Comment Any AI platform you want me to review next and follow along.
Most people think an AI advert needs a budget and a team.
It needs six tools and an afternoon. Here is the full chain, with a free option at every step.
→ Script: ChatGPT or any free chatbot.
Ask for 3 shots of 5 seconds, on-screen text for each, and a voiceover under 35 words.
Tell it who the advert is for, not just what you sell.
→ Pictures: any image tool.
Make one still image per shot, using a real photo of your product as the reference.
Paste the same style line into every prompt, like "warm morning light, realistic". That keeps it looking like one advert.
→ Motion: Kling, Google flow or Hailuo as the free option.
Turn each picture into a 5-second clip. Describe only the camera move. The picture already sets the look.
→ Voice: ElevenLabs free tier.
Generate the whole script in one go, then cut it into three. Doing it line by line makes the pace jump.
→ Music and edit: Suno or CapCut's music library, then CapCut to cut, caption and export in 9:16.
Last check: watch it on mute. If the text alone sells it, it is ready.
→ Save this for your next advert.
Which step do you want broken down in full next week?
Follow NEXTGEN for one build a day.
Which step takes you longest right now: the script, the visuals, the voice or the edit?
I built a GTA Vice City style game with AI.
Neon streets, cars and an open map, made by chatting with AI on @CreaoAI, no game engine and no coding in hours.
Meet CREAO Vice City 2026.
This is my entry for the Loadout AI Game Competition @loadoutprotocol
What should I add next?
My AI agent learned its mistake as the rule, and it nearly copied it into every episode.
On Her Pink Room, the faceless channel I'm building on @CreaoAI , each episode happens in the same room. Same table, same candle, same phone, one mug.
In episode four, a second mug appeared. Then a plate of food nobody served.
That's normal AI drift, and it's annoying but fixable. The real problem was what I found when I audited the agent.
Its file for keeping objects in the right place had an example layout. That example listed two mugs, a plate and a fork.
It was episode four's mistake, written down as the correct room.
So every time the agent checked "Is the room right?", it was checking against the broken version. A wrong room would pass. The right room would look like an error.
The fix:
→ I rewrote the example from the real room: one mug, one candle, one phone, one plant and an empty chair
→ I added a rule that nothing new appears unless the episode says it does
→ Episode four went back for a full redo
The lesson: An agent copies its examples more closely than its instructions. If an example is wrong, every run will be wrong in the same way.
If you're building an agent, open its example files today and check each one against a result you know is right.
Bookmark this, and follow along as I take this channel from zero to 100K.
Yesterday we said: start every clip from one image of your character.
Here is how to make that image.
Facing the camera. Plain background. Even light. Calm face. Head and shoulders.
Who is your character? Describe them in one line and we will tell you what to add so the face stays the same.
Prompt in the first reply. Save this.
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You can build a landing page today without writing any code.
One prompt, about 25 minutes and a few follow-up fixes, and you have a page you can share.
Prompt in the first reply.
Share your website on our discord
I gave an AI agent 2,000 credits and 90 real API call on @Nevermined_ai. It spent 708 credits, about 71 cents.
Disclosure: Nevermined provided the credits for testing. 2,000 credits is about $2 at their own pack price ($10 for 10,000). No card, no wallet, no top-ups. Everything below ran the way an agent would call it, through their REST API and MCP server.
What I tested
Easy: IP lookups, a weather check, geocoding.
Typical: a research agent across three search engines plus a scraper, a due diligence check on a real website, an SEC filing search, a DeepL translation, AI images, and auto-pick, including asks it can't do.
Hard: bad requests, wrong paths, oversized requests, the same request sent twice, an LLM call, a fake API key, a full MCP run, a one-prompt "US Creator Weekend Brief", a 40-call reliability loop, and a full ledger audit.
What it does well
➢ Billing is exact. Every charge in the ledger added up to my balance drop, to the credit. Every quote matched the charge.
➢ Reliability was near perfect. 88 of 89 valid paid calls came back. The one failure was refunded automatically and the retry worked. The reliability loop went 40 of 40.
➢ Failed calls are mostly fair. A bad request was refunded. Wrong paths, missing fields and oversized requests were refused before any charge.
➢ Duplicate protection works. Same request twice, one charge.
➢ The one-prompt test is the real win. Two search engines, a scraper, an LLM, DeepL, an image and file hosting: 8 calls, 93 credits, 79 seconds, zero vendor signups. It found 3 real upcoming US creator events, with a Spanish hook and a hero image.
➢ It's built for agents. The MCP server tells the agent its balance, the cost and when credits expire, in plain sentences.
➢ It says no honestly. "Book a hotel room" came back as no match, charged nothing.
What it does badly
➢ Slow. Every paid call takes about 4 seconds. The same IP lookup straight from the vendor took 0.2 seconds.
➢ Headline prices are off. DeepL's card says half a cent. I paid 5 cents, 10x the headline.
➢ The markup is hidden. On average I paid 1.68x what vendors received. The LLM call was about 24x.
➢ You pay for junk if the vendor says 200. A paywalled scrape, two useless SEC searches and a geocode that put a well known neighborhood in the wrong country were all charged. The brief's LLM also got one event date wrong.
➢ "No stablecoins" covers part of the shelf. Credits pay 135 of 160 services and 61% of endpoints.
➢ No spending cap on credits. A looping agent could drain the whole balance.
➢ Dashboard rough edges. It says "No purchases yet" while Purchases lists every call, and "Total spent" shows a blank dash.
What 1,000 credits (about $1) buys at measured prices
➢ 500 IP lookups
➢ 333 page scrapes
➢ 200 AI images
➢ 125 short GPT-4o-mini answers
➢ 100 Exa searches
➢ 20 DeepL translations
➢ 12 website screenshots
➢ About 10 full US creator briefs
Scores (my judgment)
Onboarding 8
Discovery 8
Agent experience 8
Billing accuracy 10
Reliability 9
Failed-call fairness 7
Price transparency 5
Latency 4
Coverage on free credits 6
Budget controls 4
Docs accuracy 6
Verdict: 7/10
The plumbing is the best I've tested. Exact money, almost nothing broke, and one key replaced 13 vendor signups. It loses points on speed, headline prices that don't match what you pay, and charging for useless "successful" answers.
➢ Use it if you're building an agent that needs many data sources without signing up for each one.
➢ Skip it if you need speed, heavy use of one vendor, or a hard spending cap without a crypto wallet.
What I'd fix first
Show the real per-call price on every card
Add spending caps for credits, not just USDC
Cut the 4 second overhead per call
Pass vendor error messages back to the agent
Fix catalog paths the router refuses
Let agents flag junk 200 answers for a refund
Would you let your agent spend money on its own? Tell me below 👇
Your character has a new face in every clip?
Stop starting each clip from text alone. Make one clear image of them, then start every clip from that same image.
Same image, same description, every time.
Try it and reply with your result.
What changes most in your clips: the face, the hair or the outfit?
A social media manager in Kigali runs pages for three small businesses. A coffee shop, a fashion boutique and a gym.
Every Monday he stares at three empty calendars. Each client needs fresh ideas, a different tone, and captions in English and French.
By Wednesday he is posting whatever he can think of that morning.
Here is how he could set up an AI agent to do the first draft of his week, in four steps.
Step one: write a short brief for each client. What they sell, who buys, their tone, and any offers or events this month.
Step two: open @CreaoAI and type, in plain words:
"Build me a content planner for my clients. I manage social media for a coffee shop, a fashion boutique and a gym. Here is a brief for each one: [paste briefs]. When I name a client, give me a 5-day plan with a post idea, the best format (photo, reel or carousel), a caption in English and a French version, and one question that gets people to reply. Keep each caption under 120 words. Never invent prices, offers or events I have not given you."
That message builds the agent. No coding.
Step three: each Monday, name a client and get the week's plan.
Step four: edit what does not sound right, take the photos, and schedule the posts.
He still knows his clients best. The agent just means he never starts the week from a blank page.
Explore CREAO with link in bio to see how this works you can build any agent of your choice if you can describe the task CREAO can do it for you.
Creators and social media managers, how many pages do you run? Reply with your number and your country.
Save this for your next Monday. Run one page or ten, the agent works the same way. Reply with the kind of business you post for and I will write the brief for step one with you.
Your phone photo of a product can look like a studio shot.
One prompt: plain background, soft light, sharp label. Swap in your product and run it.
Prompt is in the first reply. Save this.
What are you shooting first? Tell us the product and we will suggest a background to try.
If you are building and you need an honest review, feedback, suggestions and recommendation.
DM Let's test what you're building or drop your product link below
If you are building and you need an honest review, feedback, suggestions and recommendation.
DM Let's test what you're building or drop your product link below
I review AI tools by building with them.
No press-release rewrites. I sign up like a normal user, build something real, screen-record every step and track what it costs.
What you get in every review:
1. Setup time from sign-up to first result
2. Real builds, not demo clicks
3. Cost receipts, credit by credit
4. What works and what breaks, with screenshots
5. A straight verdict
Example: I tested Zite with 4 business apps and 4 prompts, on 8.8 of 50 free credits. The dashboard maths was exactly right, and the first click on the live order form did nothing. Both made the review.
Brands get my findings before I post, so they can fix issues first.
Tools I cover: AI agents, agent tools and APIs, automation, AI video and image generation.
Building an AI tool? Paid collabs only, DMs open.