金 OKANE LAND

The Proof

One tool, put through its paces. We actually use it, then tell you where it breaks, what it really costs, and who it's for. Skepticism pointed at products, never people.

The Okane Land starfish hugging a coral 金 seal stamp and pressing it onto a page, beside a TESTED stamp impression.
A hand-inked gauge labelled ChatGPT Free, one 30-day meter, with the needle at 37 percent above a row of twelve ticked gate boxes reading 12 gates, 12 passes, and the caption: twelve gates, twelve passes, on the $0 plan, it cost 37% of the month.

Worth it

Codex on the ChatGPT Free plan: we gave it $0 and the same booking app

We handed the free tier of OpenAI's coding agent the exact founder pitch, curveballs and frozen gates that Cursor Pro and Claude Code faced in August. It cleared all twelve, including the concurrency gate both $20 tools failed, in under ten minutes of agent time. The bill was 37 percent of a 30-day meter, and the model behind the door was not the one in the launch posts.

OpenAI Codex (ChatGPT Free plan) · 8 min

 Web Anatomy's own homepage, the design-library headline above its 600-pages-and-4,000-sections claim, mounted inside a hand-inked Okane Land frame with coral corner ticks and a Web Anatomy Exhibit A label.

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Web Anatomy: the annotations are worth your time, the statistics are not

A design library of scored, annotated landing-page sections from real companies, plus a free MIT-licensed skill pack for your coding agent. We ran its own audit rubric three times on the same page to test its reproducibility claim, ran the hosted analyzer on our own homepage and timed it, and checked its published analyses against the live sites they describe. The section-level work is better than almost any free CRO content. The scores and leaderboards deserve a more careful read.

Web Anatomy · 11 min

 A hand-inked two-round scorecard: round one the booking app at 11/12 each with a shared concurrency failure, round two the log analyzer at 12/12 each, a two-build total of 23 of 24 for both Cursor Pro and Claude Code, marked indistinguishable on capability.

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Cursor vs Claude Code for vibe coding: a real head-to-head

We gave each $20 agent the same founder pitch and the same pass-or-fail gates, frozen before either run started, then did it again with a completely different product to break the tie. Round one: 11/12 each, same failure. Round two: 12/12 each. Two builds, two ties. Here is what still separates them, receipts and repos included.

Cursor Pro vs Claude Code · 11 min

 Cursor's own landing hero, the coding-agent headline above the Cursor Desktop window, mounted on washi paper inside a hand-inked Okane Land frame with coral corner ticks and a Cursor Exhibit A label.

Worth it

Cursor Pro: we gave it $20 and a startup idea

We handed Cursor a founder-style pitch and it shipped a working, named SaaS the same evening: a tracker for the exact unnumbered AI allowances our own reporting keeps exposing. It survived two curveballs and a cold ship check, all on the $20 plan. Worth it, with the two caveats the meter still will not show you.

Cursor Pro · 9 min

 Open Design's own landing artwork, the designing-intelligence collage, mounted on washi paper inside a hand-inked Okane Land frame with coral corner ticks and an Exhibit A label.

Worth it

Open Design: the free design studio your coding agent runs

We installed Open Design, pointed it at our own site, and let Claude Code drive: brand extraction, a component kit, a sponsor media kit, a PDF export. The output is real, and the token meter shows what free costs.

Open Design · 8 min

 Creatify's AI Ads That Win landing hero on its purple-to-orange gradient, mounted on washi paper inside a hand-inked Okane Land frame with coral corner ticks and an Exhibit A label.

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Creatify: the product-page ad machine, for the right seller

We bought the Pro plan and drove every tool in the box: URL-to-Video on a real Amazon listing, three custom avatars, static image ads, the ad-cloning agent, the playable-ad builder, and the credit meter. Turning a product page into a stack of usable ads is the real product. The custom-avatar side dropped a render without a word, and the ad-launch suite wants your live ad accounts before it does anything.

Creatify · 13 min

 Clay's claymation landing scene and Build Systems to Grow Revenue headline, mounted on washi paper inside a hand-inked Okane Land frame with coral corner ticks and an Exhibit A label.

Worth it

Clay: the best prospecting engine we have tested, and the bill that comes with it

We found 50 real leads, ran the six-provider email waterfall, and drove Clay's AI agent across ten companies on the live tool. The AI is the real thing and the coverage is high. The catch is the price and the learning curve.

Clay · 10 min

 Perplexity's ask-anything interface with its wordmark, mounted as a wide print on washi paper inside a hand-inked Okane Land frame with coral corner ticks and an Exhibit A label.

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Perplexity Max: the deepest toolset in AI search, and where it still leaks

We bought Max, signed in, and drove every tool: nine models, Model Council, Deep Research, the Computer agent, the premium data connectors, Finance and Academic. The advanced tools are genuinely powerful. The everyday search still leans on content mills, and most people do not need the $200 tier.

Perplexity Max · 7 min

 Surfer's own landing hero, Be The Answer in ChatGPT, mounted on washi paper inside a hand-inked Okane Land frame with coral corner ticks and an Exhibit A label.

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Surfer SEO: a strong scoring engine wrapped in a paywall maze

We ran Surfer end to end on a live site with Search Console connected, then checked our verdict against what real users report. The dual SEO and AI-Search scoring is real and ahead of older tools. The AI writer inventing a "we tested it" claim is not.

Surfer SEO · 8 min