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Plan before you prompt, improve by component, use real content, and apply design buzzwords to get consistent, high-quality results.

Make Kintsu.ai ask clarifying questions

One of the most effective ways to get better results from Kintsu.ai is to let it fill in the gaps before making changes. After stating what improvement or change you want, add a line at the end of your prompt like:
“Ask me any questions you need in order to fully understand what I want from this improvement and how I envision it.”
Kintsu.ai will respond with focused, often insightful follow-up questions—sometimes ones you wouldn’t have thought to specify. This process helps clarify your requirements up front and prevents misunderstanding or wasted effort later. If you haven’t tried prompting this way, give it a shot: you’ll likely notice that site improvements land closer to your true intent, with less back-and-forth.

Further Prompting Knowledge: Your Practical Playbook for Consistent, High-Quality Results in Kintsu.ai

Welcome to your comprehensive guide for high-impact prompting in Kintsu.ai! This playbook brings together the most effective techniques, strategies, and principles for getting the best possible results when improving your WordPress sites. Whether you’re new to prompting or ready to refine your skills, you’ll find actionable advice and clear examples to help you evolve your sites quickly and consistently.

Phase 1: Lay the Foundation

1. Plan before you prompt

Before using Kintsu.ai, define what you’re improving. Skipping this step is like starting a renovation without knowing what room you’re working on. Use a quick planning session—pen and paper, voice notes, ChatGPT, whatever works—to answer these four questions:
  • What part of the site are you improving?
  • Who visits this section?
  • Why will this improvement matter to them?
  • What is the one key action visitors should take?
You’re not writing a spec doc. You’re setting direction. The more aligned your thinking, the sharper your prompts. Vague ideas produce vague outputs. Clear thinking leads to clear results. Prompt example
Improve the homepage hero section for a wellness clinic WordPress site. The main CTA should be "Book Your First Session." Focus on a calm, professional aesthetic with soft colors and clear typography.

2. Map the user journey visually

Design isn’t about individual sections—it’s about what happens between them. The best outputs in Kintsu.ai come from clear, logical flow. Map the journey your visitor takes from landing on the page to completing a key action. Think in transitions:
  • What does the visitor see first?
  • What builds trust?
  • What gives them confidence to act?
  • Where does that action lead?
Even a simple three-step sketch — Hero → Services → CTA — can make your prompts 10× more effective.
“You’re not stacking blocks. You’re guiding behavior. Every section should have a reason to exist—and a reason to lead to the next one.”

3. Get the design right first

Your visual language is a foundation, not a polish layer. Kintsu.ai needs to know the look and feel you want—early. Otherwise, your improvements might function but feel totally wrong. Do not fix design problems later. Decide them up front. Choose a direction, for example:
  • Calm and elegant
  • Bold and modern
  • Premium and sleek
Then feed that style directly into your prompt using buzzwords, tone descriptors, and UI patterns. You can even create a “starter style prompt” and reuse it across all sections for consistency.
“You don’t prompt your way into good design. You prompt from it.”
Prompt example
Use a calm, wellness-inspired design. Soft gradients, muted earth tones, round corners, and generous padding. Keep the existing brand fonts. Overall tone should feel gentle and reassuring.

Phase 2: Think in Systems

4. Prompt by component, not page

Kintsu.ai works best when you improve your site in modular parts—not full pages at once. Asking it to redesign an entire homepage is like dumping a recipe into a blender. You’ll get something, but it won’t be usable. Instead, approach your prompts like building with Lego bricks. Each block should have one clear purpose: a hero section, a services grid, a testimonial slider, a contact form. Improve one, review it, refine it, then move to the next. When you prompt by component, you gain clarity, control, and flexibility. If something doesn’t look right, you can fix just that block instead of re-prompting an entire page. This also helps you maintain consistency across your site—components can be refined and adapted without starting over.
“A full-page prompt gets you noise. A section-based prompt gets you signal.”
Prompt example
Update the sticky header with modern styling. Add smooth scroll behavior, a subtle shadow on scroll, and ensure the mobile menu is clean and accessible.

5. Design with real content

Kintsu.ai does not work well with placeholder content like “lorem ipsum” or “service 1 / service 2.” The AI responds to structure and intent—and the fastest way to show intent is to use real words. Even if your final copy isn’t ready, use copy that reflects your message. If you’re improving a page for a dental practice, write what a patient would actually read. Don’t fake it. This doesn’t just help Kintsu.ai generate better layouts and spacing—it helps you make smarter design decisions. A real headline might need two lines instead of one. A CTA might work better if it’s a verb instead of a noun. Placeholder text hides those issues. Real content reveals them early.
“Design loves constraints. Real content creates the right ones.”
Prompt example
Hero section with headline: "Your Smile, Our Priority." Subtext: "Compassionate dental care for the whole family." CTA: "Schedule Your Visit." Use a clean, trust-building layout with generous white space.

6. Speak atomic: buttons, cards, modals

Kintsu.ai thinks in atoms. The smaller and more specific your UI language, the better it performs. Instead of asking for a “section with a contact form,” say, “Add a form with input fields for name, email, and message, plus a rounded submit button.” These atomic instructions get interpreted as native patterns. Think like a system. Describe cards, badges, toggles, form fields, dropdowns, etc. Don’t say “a user interface” when you can say “a modal with a success message after form submission.” This atomic vocabulary also lets you layer complexity gradually. Start with a card. Then add an icon. Then add hover states. Each layer builds naturally on the last.
“The smaller the part, the smarter the response.”
Prompt example
Create a team member card with a profile photo, name, role title, and a brief bio. Add a subtle hover effect that lifts the card and shows social media links.

7. Use buzzwords to dial in aesthetic

Visual style is one of the most important—and most misunderstood—parts of prompting in Kintsu.ai. It’s not enough to describe layout. You need to guide the tool on vibe. Buzzwords are the fastest way to do that. Kintsu.ai understands terms like “minimal,” “expressive,” “professional,” “playful,” “premium,” and “enterprise-grade.” These aren’t fluff—they’re promptable parameters that influence typography, spacing, shadow, border radius, and color palette. Use these words early in your prompts. Better yet, include them in every section. You’ll get cohesive improvements across the board and avoid the dreaded “generic WordPress” look. You can also mix and match buzzwords to evolve your tone. A page can start “bold and confident” in the hero and become “calm and reassuring” in the testimonials section.
“Design isn’t just structure. It’s tone. Buzzwords define it.”
Prompt example
Improve the pricing section to feel premium and trustworthy. Use clean card layouts, subtle shadows, strategic use of brand accent color, and clear visual hierarchy between plan tiers.

Phase 3: Build with Precision

8. Use prompt patterns for layouts

Prompts are easier to write—and far more effective—when you use structured, repeatable patterns. Think of them as layout recipes. Rather than trying to explain your layout from scratch every time, describe it using a consistent rhythm. A good layout prompt breaks the section into visual parts, clarifies their order, and defines how they’re styled. Most patterns follow a “header → content → action” structure, but you can customize that flow depending on what you’re improving. Start building a personal prompt library. For example, write a go-to structure for a feature grid, a testimonial slider, or a pricing table. Reuse and remix these patterns with slight modifications to match different pages.
“Kintsu.ai responds best to prompt language that is structured, scoped, and predictable. Prompt patterns make you faster and your output more consistent.”
Prompt example
Create a services section with a centered headline, followed by three horizontally aligned cards. Each card includes an icon on top, a service name, and a short description. Cards should have soft shadows and lift on hover.

9. Add visuals via URL

Want your improvements to feel real? Reference existing images, product demos, or videos using URLs. Kintsu.ai supports visual embeds when prompted clearly. Prompt for placement (e.g., below hero or inside a feature card), style (e.g., rounded corners, full-width), and context (why it’s there). Prompt example
Add a video testimonial section below the services. Embed the YouTube video at [URL]. Display it in a rounded container with a subtle shadow, centered on the page.

10. Layer context with the Edit feature

The Edit feature is one of the most powerful capabilities in Kintsu.ai—but only if you use it properly. Instead of rewriting full prompts when something needs to change, use edits to focus on specific layers or elements. This lets you iterate quickly without disturbing what’s already working. Think of edits like design overrides. They’re not replacements—they’re adjustments. For example, you can select a CTA button and change just the copy, or tweak a card layout without affecting the typography of the entire section. This keeps your project clean and modular. You avoid prompt bloat, you move faster, and you reduce the risk of breaking something that was already working. When editing, be precise in your language. Say exactly what you want to change and what should stay the same. Prompt example (within edit)
Change the CTA button text to "Get Started Today" and increase the padding. Keep the existing background color and font styling.

Phase 4: Iterate and Ship

11. Build with WordPress structure in mind

Improving a layout is just one part of evolving a WordPress site. If you want your Kintsu.ai improvements to work seamlessly, you need to think about how they’ll integrate with your existing WordPress setup. WordPress has its own patterns—themes, plugins, page builders, custom post types. Kintsu.ai understands this ecosystem and can help you work within it rather than against it. When you’re designing with WordPress in mind, start by anticipating:
  • Theme compatibility — Will this improvement work with the existing theme structure?
  • Plugin interactions — Are there contact forms, sliders, or other plugins that need to be preserved?
  • Responsive behavior — How should this look on mobile vs desktop?
  • Content management — Will the client be able to update this content easily?
This early thinking helps you prompt smarter sections and makes the improvement process smoother. Prompt example
Improve the blog archive page layout. Keep the existing category filtering functionality. Display posts in a clean grid with featured images, titles, dates, and excerpt previews. Ensure it works with the current theme's pagination.
You don’t need to rebuild everything—but thinking about how improvements integrate with existing WordPress structures is how you avoid breaking what already works.

12. Version control is your friend

Kintsu.ai helps you track changes, but that doesn’t mean you should move fast without thinking. If you’re not keeping track of what you changed and why, you’ll lose control quickly. Good versioning isn’t about naming files. It’s about thinking in iterations. Make one meaningful change at a time. Update the hero section. Improve the navigation. Adjust the footer. Check the result. Then move forward. This is how professional site evolution works—layer by layer, with intention. Adopt your own system:
  • Think in milestones (e.g., “homepage complete”, “services section improved”, “mobile responsive”)
  • Document your prompts and what they achieved
  • Preview before major changes, and create backups before risky improvements
“Safe iteration doesn’t mean slow. It means confident. Build intentionally. Iterate with awareness.”
Prompt habit
Before making a major change to a production section, review the current state and ensure you can roll back if needed. Small cost, big safety net.

Summary

Effective prompting in Kintsu.ai comes down to a few core principles:
  1. Plan before you prompt — Know what you’re improving and why
  2. Work in components — Small, focused improvements beat sweeping changes
  3. Use real content — Placeholder text leads to placeholder results
  4. Speak specifically — Atomic UI language gets atomic precision
  5. Set the vibe early — Buzzwords shape the aesthetic from the start
  6. Iterate safely — Layer improvements, track changes, stay in control
Master these, and you’ll transform how you evolve WordPress sites with Kintsu.ai.