Ranked from real rescues, not theory
This list comes from fixing AI-generated sites, ordered by how often each failure appears. If your site was built by v0, Lovable, Bolt, a no-code AI builder, or a weekend Cursor session, check it against this list before the failures check you.
1. Forms that never reach anyone
The AI generates a beautiful form. The submit handler posts to nowhere, or to a preview endpoint, or sends mail that lands in spam. The business discovers it when a customer says "I emailed you twice". The most expensive silence in the industry, see why form emails never arrive.
2. No analytics, or analytics that lies
Pageviews fire; conversions do not exist. The owner cannot answer "how many enquiries did the site get this month?" because the site does not measure them. Setup guide: GA4 for business websites.
3. SEO plumbing half-done
Titles exist; meta descriptions are duplicated; schema is absent or fake; sitemap points to preview URLs; robots.txt blocks a staging path that also blocks production.
4. Dependency debt
Generated code pulls 40+ packages. Weeks later, a vulnerability advisory lands and nobody knows which of the 40 are affected or whether upgrading breaks the build.
5. The preview-to-production gap
The site works on the builder's preview domain. Production (your domain, your hosting, real email) is a different environment with different env vars, mail routing and CORS behavior.
6. Performance drift
Generated pages ship heavy components, unoptimized images and client-side everything. It feels fast on the developer's machine and dies on a budget Android on 4G.
7. Accessibility violations at scale
Missing labels, contrast failures, keyboard traps. AI output tends to look accessible and not be.
8. Legal pages that are wrong or missing
Privacy policies generated with invented clauses, or absent entirely. For Indian businesses handling leads, this is exposure.
9. Content structure without strategy
Beautiful sections with no message hierarchy: six heroes, no proof, no journey, no conversion path.
10. Lock-in
Builder-hosted sites where export means starting over. Read the exit before the entry.
11. Security theater
No rate limiting on forms (spam floods), no input validation server-side, secrets in client-side code.
12. Nobody owns it
No documentation, no deployment process, no one who can change it safely. The site becomes a monument: everyone is afraid to touch it.
The pattern underneath the list
AI is extraordinary at generating the visible 20% of a website. The invisible 80%, deliverability, analytics correctness, security posture, dependency health, SEO plumbing, is exactly where generated output fails and exactly what a maintenance relationship covers. If three or more items on this list describe your site, that is not a bug hunt, it is a maintenance gap, and care plans exist precisely for it.