February 2023.
Before the AI hype cycle. Before everyone had an opinion about it. Before Russell was talking about it on stage.
I was following a guy named Wynter Jones who was doing something I hadn't seen before. He was using MidJourney to generate visual design concepts and ChatGPT to write the copy, then taking what came out and building it manually inside ClickFunnels.
No automation. No API. No code. Just AI as a creative partner and a funnel builder who knew what to do with the output.
It was labor intensive. No question about that.
But the designs were a breath of fresh air from everything I'd seen before. You know how funnel hacking works.. you go look at what's out there, you take the best ideas, you remix them. This was funnel hacking something that had never existed. AI-generated concepts nobody had ever shipped. Visual directions nobody had ever tried.
That felt like something.
That's Level 2 on the Five Levels of Vibe Coding with ClickFunnels.
No code. No API keys. Nothing technically different from what you already know how to do. You use AI outside the platform.. ChatGPT for copy, an image generator for visual direction.. and then you bring what it gives you back into the CF builder and execute it with your existing skills.
The ceiling on your designs just got a lot higher. And the only skill it requires is knowing how to use the builder you're already in.
Most people skip this level too because it feels manual. It is manual. That's not a bug. You're in control of every element. You know exactly what you built and why. And the output looks like nothing else in the feed because it came from somewhere nobody else is looking.
This week I'm going one level at a time. The story behind each one, what it does, and when it's the right call.
Level 3 tomorrow.
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- James