Agencies and consultants
Deliver a client report your AI built as a private link
Claude or ChatGPT turned this month’s data into an HTML dashboard, a PDF or a cleaned-up CSV. Publish it to a link like acme-report.quickhost.ing with a password, and publish next month’s to the same address. Your client opens the latest version in a browser, sorts the table or reads the PDF without downloading anything, and you can see whether they did.
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The situation
Where does this usually go wrong?
The report your AI made is often an HTML page or a spreadsheet, and attaching it to an email loses the charts or buries the numbers in a download. You also can’t tell whether anyone read it before the monthly call.
- An HTML dashboard sent as an attachment opens from the client’s downloads folder, and its linked charts or images can go missing.
- Each month’s report is a new file and a new link, so the client has to dig for the latest one.
- Client numbers on a public link are a risk you’d rather not have to explain.
- You go into the review call without knowing whether the report was opened.
Step by step
How do you do it with QuickHost?
Publish this month’s report privately, then publish next month’s to the same name. The address stays the same for the whole engagement.
- 1
Publish this month’s report
Drag the HTML folder, PDF or CSV onto the dashboard, or have your agent publish it. A PDF opens in a reader and a CSV opens as a sortable table.
- 2
Keep it private
Use a password, or give each person at the client their own named link. Every project is hidden from search engines unless you choose otherwise.
- 3
File it under the client
Keep each client’s reports in their own folder in the workspace, so your team can find them.
- 4
Republish next month
Publish the new report to the same name. The client sees the latest version at the address they already have, and the earlier versions are kept.
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Check before the call
The dashboard shows who opened it and when, and you get an email on each person’s first open.
What you get
What do you get from it?
Your client keeps one link for the whole engagement, and you walk into each review knowing whether the report was read.
One address for the engagement
The client bookmarks the link once and it always shows the latest report.
Readable on any device
PDFs, spreadsheets, markdown and video each open in a viewer built for them, on a phone as well as a laptop.
Client data kept private
A password or named links decide who opens it, and it stays out of search engines.
A better-prepared review call
You know before the call whether the report was opened, and by whom.
Other options
What else could you use for this?
These tools come up for the same job. Each comparison is dated and sourced from the other product's own pages, and says when it's the better pick.
- QuickHost vs DocSend
DocSend tracks PDFs well and prices mostly per person, and it can’t host an HTML dashboard.
- QuickHost vs tiiny.host
tiiny.host has a free plan for quick pages, which shows a banner on the page.
Questions
What else do people ask about this?
The questions that come up when someone is setting this up for the first time, answered plainly.
Can I password-protect an HTML report?
Yes, on every plan. Choose password-protected and QuickHost gives you a doorcode you can read back and re-send later. Or make it private and create a named link for each person.
Can I update a report without changing the link?
Yes. Republish to the same project and the address stays the same. Every earlier version is kept, so nothing is overwritten by accident.
Can my client open a CSV without Excel?
Yes. A CSV or TSV opens as a sortable table in the browser, and a PDF opens in a reader instead of a download prompt.
Will the report show up in search results?
No. Every project is noindex by default, and a crawler can’t read a password-protected or private project at all.