Spent the past week running an experiment: can a programmatic SEO directory site survive Google's 2024 Helpful Content Update if every page is AI-generated? Rather than pick one niche and bet the farm, I built three parallel sites with the same stack — different content categories, identical architecture, single content generation pipeline. They share a monorepo, deploy independently to Vercel, and refresh nightly via one GitHub Actions cron. This post is the architecture write-up. I'll publish actual revenue/traffic numbers in a follow-up after 6 months. The three sites 🤖 Top AI Tools — ~500 open-source models from HuggingFace, with Claude-generated summaries, use cases, and FAQ 🎮 Find Games Like — "games like X" recommendations for indie titles on Steam, with AI-curated similarity reasoning and "avoid if" caveats 🛠 Open Alternative To — open-source replacements for ~80 popular SaaS products, refreshed daily from GitHub stars and last-pushed timestamps All three are static-generated, all three rebuild…