Where I Left Off
This is Part 3 of my story about building www.kkecommerce.com with AI, and of how agentic AI changed my role along the way. At the end of Part 1, I asked a question I could not answer yet: could AI finally work inside my website with me, instead of only telling me which button to click?
A few weeks later, I have a better answer. In September, Claude rebuilt my About page directly inside WordPress, and I then replaced my homepage one section at a time.
Looking back, what changed most was my own role. About two weeks after I started, I was promoted from worker to manager. Even in my corporate years at Motorola, Nokia and Huawei, I never got a promotion that fast. I stopped doing every click myself and started setting the goal, checking the work and approving it. It was a real promotion in every way, except the salary increase never came. People describe this as the move from generative AI to agentic AI.
When AI Was My Adviser
When I moved KK Ecommerce off Wix in late August, ChatGPT guided me through almost everything: Hostinger, WordPress, DNS, SSL, domain settings and Google email. It was patient and usually right. But every action went through me. I took a screenshot, asked what to do next, followed the steps and came back with the result.
This is what most people picture when they talk about generative AI. You ask, it answers, and you do the work. The AI never touched my hosting account or my website. It produced text and sometimes code, and I was the one who used it.
I don’t look down on this stage. It is how I learned what nameservers, MX records and SSL certificates are, and that knowledge still helps me judge what AI suggests today. But it was tiring. Some evenings I felt like a pair of hands working for a very knowledgeable adviser. At one point, my phone gallery had more screenshots of DNS settings than photos of my family.
The Week Claude Worked Inside My Website
In Part 1, I wrote that Claude could reach Hostinger but could not yet edit my Elementor pages. My About page turned out to be the exception. It is built as a single Custom HTML block, so once Claude was connected to the WordPress editor, it could read the page, rewrite it and save it.
My first attempt did not go as planned. I asked AI to create the page on its own, and the result looked fine at first glance but missed what I wanted in many places. It could not know which parts of my career mattered most to me, or how I pictured them on the page. So I made my own graphic images to show what I had in mind, including the important timelines and achievements in my career. Once Claude had my pictures to work from, we produced a much more accurate version of what I wanted.
We rebuilt the About page in three stages over three days. On 17 September we laid the foundation: who I am and what KK ECOMMERCE is. On 18 September we worked on my voice, meaning what I believe, written the way I actually talk. On 19 September we added credibility, with outside evidence and a more professional picture of my career, from UPM and Motorola to Nokia Nigeria, Huawei and my own businesses.
This was the first time AI actually did the work inside my website instead of telling me what to do. I gave the goal and supplied the photos and graphics, and Claude did the reading, writing and saving. That is the practical difference I now see between the two. Generative AI gives you an answer. An AI agent takes steps in a real system to reach a goal you set.
Soon after, I replaced the temporary AI-generated homepage with a new one, built section by section. I previewed and approved each section before it went live. The hero section, with a silent looping video in the background, went up first. The next section has a title that sums up this whole series for me: “AI Looks Easy in a Demonstration. Real Business Is Different.”
Why I Kept Myself in the Loop
Around the same time, Elementor’s MCP became available as a beta. This was the feature I had decided to wait for in Part 1. It would let Claude work directly inside my Elementor pages: Home, Contact, Insights and Projects. I chose not to use it yet.
My reason was simple. A beta tool on a live website is a risk I don’t need to take. If an agent makes a mistake on a test page, I lose a little time. If it makes a mistake on the homepage that potential partners are reading, I lose credibility. So I will wait until it is stable, and for now I edit those pages the traditional way.
This is what people mean by “human in the loop”. The AI does more and more of the work, but a person still approves the steps that matter. In my case, I set the goal, I check the result before it goes live, and I decide how much access the AI gets in the first place. The more an agent is allowed to do, the more a single mistake can cost. I prefer to give it more room slowly, as it earns my trust on smaller jobs.
My corporate years taught me that you don’t hand a new staff member the keys to the shop on day one. An AI agent gets the same treatment. The difference is that this new staff member works at 2am and has never once asked for a raise.
I Asked Claude for an Honest Review
Since Claude did so much of the work, I asked it to review the site honestly, as an outsider would. Here is a shortened version of what it wrote:
The strongest part of kkecommerce.com is the About page. A dated career timeline, a 2020 Sin Chew Daily feature and the warehouse story, from a single room in 2017 to an office and warehouse today, give real evidence where most personal websites only make claims. The weakest part is the Projects page. The homepage invites visitors to follow real AI projects, but the Projects page does not list a single project yet. Adding the first Lexis Yoga projects, with real numbers, should come before any more design work.
Written by Claude
That last criticism hurt a little because Claude was right. I keep saying KK ECOMMERCE will show AI working inside a real business, but my Projects page still doesn’t show the projects. So that is what I am fixing next, starting with Lexis Yoga.
What Agentic AI Means for Small Business Owners
I am not a developer, and most SME owners I know in Ipoh are not either. For a small business owner like me, that is a big difference. With ChatGPT, I could get good advice, but I was still the person doing the work. With an AI agent, I can increasingly say what I want done, let it do part of the work, and then check the result.
Next, I want to try this on WhatsApp. At a recent Meta event, I realised how much I had underinvested in WhatsApp compared with online marketplaces. Many small sellers here already run their business through WhatsApp conversations. Could an AI agent help answer customers on WhatsApp while the owner still controls the important decisions? I don’t know yet. That is exactly why I want to try it in my own business first, the same way I tried AI on this website, and write about what happens.
If you work on WhatsApp or AI solutions for small businesses, or you run one and struggle with reach and sales, I would like to hear from you through my Contact page.
So, is building a website with AI easy? It is getting easier. For me, the more useful lesson has been about trust. I started by letting AI advise me. Then I let it rewrite my About page inside WordPress while I checked each stage. Next, once the tools are stable, I will let it work on the rest of the site. I gave it more room at each step because the step before had gone well.
The next phase of the site is adding my Lexis Yoga projects to the Projects page. This time I want to see how much of that work an AI agent can carry, and where I still need to keep my hand on it.
Pay rise or not, it does feel better to be the boss than the worker.
This continues the story from Part 1: Building a Website with AI and Part 2: Is Prompting Just for Beginners—and Already Obsolete?