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title: "Starter Templates: AI Powered Vs Pre-Designed"
source: "https://docs.nexcess.com/software/kadence/starter-templates-ai-powered-vs-pre-designed/"
description: "Kadence offers two powerful options for quickly launching your website: AI Powered Templates and Pre-Designed Templates. Both are excellent choices, and your pr…"
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area: "Kadence"
date: "2025-07-11"
last_modified: "2025-07-11"
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# Starter Templates: AI Powered Vs Pre-Designed

Kadence offers two powerful options for quickly launching your website: AI Powered Templates and Pre-Designed Templates. Both are excellent choices, and your preference will depend on your specific needs and desired level of customization from the outset. **You can always re-run the starter template wizard and import a new template, allowing you to experiment with both options.**

AI Powered Templates

AI Powered Templates leverage artificial intelligence to generate a more personalized and near-launch-ready website.

- **Flexible Layouts & Styles:** These templates offer a foundational layout that is less opinionated than the pre-designed options, providing a flexible starting point.
- **AI-Generated Content:** A key differentiator is that *all text content* is generated by AI. This content is tailored based on an “AI profile” you set up for your site, which considers crucial information like your website’s goals, industry, and target audience.
- **AI-Selected or Manual Images:** Images are intelligently selected based on your AI profile, further enhancing the relevance of the initial design. You also have the flexibility to manually select your own images.
- **Pre-Import Customization:** Before importing, you have full control over customizing colors and fonts. This allows you to preview exactly how your chosen styles will look on your site.
- **Significantly Closer to Launch-Ready:** By generating both text and suggesting images based on your site’s profile, these templates bring your website much closer to a publishable state immediately after the AI wizard is completed.

### Pre-Designed Templates

Pre-Designed Templates are professionally crafted layouts created for hypothetical businesses across various industries.

- **Professionally Designed for Specific Industries:** These templates are meticulously designed with specific business types in mind, offering a cohesive and polished look from the start.
- **More Opinionated Designs & Layouts:** Due to their professional design for specific niches, these templates have more defined and opinionated designs compared to the AI-generated layouts.
- **Extensive Selection:** You can choose from a large library of over 80 different pre-designed layouts, providing ample options to find a design that resonates with your vision.
- **Pre-Import Customization:** Similar to AI Powered templates, you can control and preview colors and fonts before importing the template, ensuring it aligns with your aesthetic.
- **Customizable to Your Liking:** While more opinionated, these templates are fully customizable. You can easily adjust elements to match your brand and preferences.

### Which Route to Choose?

- **Choose AI Powered if:** You want a more personalized starting point with AI-generated content and imagery that gets you closer to launch quickly, and you prefer a layout that is less opinionated, allowing for a more flexible starting point.
- **Choose Pre-Designed if:** You prefer a professionally designed foundation with a more defined aesthetic tailored to specific industries, and you enjoy browsing a wide selection of pre-built layouts to customize.

Both options are powerful tools for building a beautiful and functional website with Kadence. Feel free to explore both by re-importing starter templates as needed!