James Carter

James Carter is the person behind the field tests on AI Tools Previews. His method is simple: buy the tool, do the real job instead of reading the docs, and write down everything that annoys him along the way. Every subscription is paid with a personal card and any ongoing costs are noted in the published results, because “how much does it actually cost to escape” matters more than the splash-page price.

Before testing AI tools full-time, James built marketing sites as a freelance contractor for eight years. That background is why his experiments measure things like mobile rendering, editing speed once you have to change what the AI wrote, and export or publish options — the parts that decide whether an AI site stays online or gets rebuilt by hand.