AI Builder Launchpad Â· Step 01

Know The AI Stack

Before building, know the parts: model, prompt, context, tools, memory, retrieval, evaluation, UI, backend, logs, and deployment.

Goal Map the system

Time 35 minutes

Output Architecture sketch

Concept

An AI app is not just a model call. The model predicts the response, the prompt frames the work, context supplies facts, tools perform actions, memory stores state, retrieval finds relevant material, and evals tell you whether the system improved.

Exercise

Choose one AI helper idea.
Draw user input, backend, model, data sources, and response.
Mark where secrets live and where logs are written.

Example Stack

Browser UI
  -> FastAPI backend
  -> prompt template
  -> retrieval context
  -> model call
  -> structured response
  -> logs and evals

Definition Of Done

You can explain what each part does and name one risk for each: wrong prompt, stale context, missing evals, leaked secrets, or vague output.

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