Four take-home tools that send nothing back, and what one webinar showed
I built four free tools for people who joined an online AI webinar I taught. They run in the browser and send nothing back, so the only thing I can count is who opened them.
Earlier this month I taught an online webinar on AI and wanted to give the people who joined something they could keep using after it ended. I built four small tools on this site:
- Before you paste. Paste any text and it marks the phone numbers, emails, dates, addresses, passwords and long numbers to take out before the text goes into an AI chat, then gives you a cleaned copy.
- Design your first agent. Write down an agent’s goal, what starts it and its steps, mark where a person approves, and get safety notes back.
- Seven-day safety checklist. One small protective habit a day, with a calendar file for daily reminders.
- Scam or legit? Ten invented messages to practise on, each with the warning signs and what to do next.
Why they send nothing back
The first tool asks people to paste the exact kind of text they should not share. If that text went to a server, even mine, the tool would be doing the thing it warns against. So all four run entirely in the visitor’s browser. There is no request after the page loads, no cookie, no browser storage and no AI model. The checklist’s ticks live only in the open page. The agent picture and the calendar file are made on the device and saved to it. Reloading the page clears everything.
The pages are also kept out of search engines and out of the site menu. They are reached by the link I give at the end of a session.
What the numbers show
All I have is the site’s own traffic counts, which group visits by network address, so these are approximate.
During the session I shared the link to one tool, Before you paste. Within about five minutes roughly 120 different visitors opened it and about 100 of them started the tool in their browser. About two thirds were on phones.
The other three tools were barely opened, even though each tool page links back to the list of all four. In the two days after, only a handful of people came back.
What I cannot tell you is what anyone pasted or checked, or whether it changed what they did. There is no record of that anywhere. That is by design.
What I would do differently
Share the list, not one tool. Almost every visit went to the one tool I shared; the other three were barely opened. A link back to the list was not enough to send them further. Next time the link I share in the session is the page that lists all four.
Plan for phones first. Most people opened the tool on a phone during a live session, so pasting and reading the result on a small screen is the main path.
A tool that keeps nothing can only be counted by opens. If a tool keeps nothing, the honest numbers are how many people opened it and started it. I would rather report that than add tracking to a tool built to teach people what not to share.