The Brief — Field notes for building with AI

The Brief.

Practical guides for turning a rough idea into something an AI build tool can actually build. Written for founders using Lovable, Bolt, Cursor & Claude — by the studio that writes the blueprints.

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B-01
How to brief Lovable so it builds what you actually want
The reason your AI build comes back wrong is almost never the tool. It's the brief. Here's the structure a senior product team would use — adapted so you can do it yourself.
GUIDE
7 MIN READ
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B-02
Why AI builders build the wrong thing (and how to stop it)
Lovable, Bolt and Cursor fill every gap you leave with a default guess. Close the gaps and the guessing stops.
GUIDE
6 MIN READ
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B-03
A product spec template for AI build tools
A copy-paste skeleton that covers what every build tool needs and most founders forget. Free, no email.
TEMPLATE
5 MIN READ
SOON
B-04
How to describe a user flow so AI builds it right
Screens are easy. Flows are where AI guesses. Here's how to write one it can't misread.
GUIDE
6 MIN READ
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B-05
The edge cases AI builders forget (and your users won't)
Empty states, errors, overflow, offline. The difference between a demo and a product people trust.
GUIDE
7 MIN READ
SOON
B-06
Why your AI-built app looks generic — and the tokens that fix it
Default blue, default radius, default everything. Give the tool design direction and it stops looking AI-made.
GUIDE
6 MIN READ
SOON
B-07
Plan your app before you prompt: a founder's checklist
Ten minutes of decisions before you open Lovable saves you a weekend of re-prompting.
CHECKLIST
5 MIN READ
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B-08
Lovable vs Bolt vs Cursor for non-coders
What each one is actually good at when you can't read the code it writes.
COMPARISON
8 MIN READ
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B-09
Can a non-technical founder really build with AI?
What genuinely works, what quietly breaks, and where a little planning changes the outcome.
PERSPECTIVE
6 MIN READ
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Giving AI design direction: colour, type and spacing that don't look default
How to hand a build tool a visual system instead of hoping it picks one.
GUIDE
6 MIN READ
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