Build Session • Framing

Velocity by Design

Use no-code AI to dissolve your biggest business bottleneck—built with engineering precision, not vibe coding.

Co-hosted framing

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Then 2 hours hands-on

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FR / EN support

Run of show

How the morning flows

Short framing, long building. The room is the resource — mentors circulate the whole time.

8:30 AM

Networking & coffee

Meet the room, find people solving similar problems.

30–45 min

9:15 AM

Framing & tool demo

This deck (strategy) + a live no-code demo on Lovable.

~30 min

9:45 AM

Hands-on build

Work your own use case with mentors in the room.

~2 hrs

12:00 PM

Demos & wrap-up

Show the workflow you built. Quick, no slides needed.

45 min

The Leverage Divide

The Capability Gradient

AI is stratifying our productive capacity. Shifting from writing prompts to designing systems is the differentiator.

Potency of Action

Mastery of AI agents and models allows individuals or small groups to accomplish vastly more with fewer resources. This creates an accelerating gradient where those who build systems advance exponentially, leaving traditional users on a linear plateau.

To unlock compounding leverage, we must prioritize Design over raw Action — planning the structure before executing.

• Action = Linear prompt chasing

• Architecture = Compounding agency

↑ The Compounding Capability Curve

The danger of "vibe coding"

Opening a tool without a blueprint feels fast, but it produces throwaway software.

Vibe coding

Jumping straight into a builder and prompting by trial and error, with no defined requirements.

Builds polished features that solve the wrong problem.
Fragile, undocumented connections that break later.
Throwaway results — and a wasted morning.

VS

Spec-driven building

Deciding the data, the flow, and the one outcome that matters before you touch a tool.

Attacks your single biggest bottleneck first.
A clean data model that survives as you grow.
Frees up real time for strategic growth.

The whole method, one picture

The Bottleneck → Build loop

Four steps. Run them in order, once per bottleneck. Today, we run the loop a single time.

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1

Map

Find where time and money leak in your business. That's your bottleneck.

// Value Stream Mapping

2

Spec

Write a one-page plan: inputs, the AI step, outputs. No tools open yet.

// The Spec Canvas

3

Architect

Confirm your spec names all three parts — data, logic, screen — then pick the simplest tool.

// Minimum Viable Architecture

4

Build

Now open the tool and build exactly one working workflow, end to end.

// Lovable + Grab a sounding board

↺ Repeat for your next bottleneck

It's a loop, not a staircase — each pass ships one workflow, then you run it again on your next bottleneck.

Find your bottleneck

Every business runs on these three phases. Find the one that eats the most of your time — that's the bottleneck to attack today.

Example

1

Get the work

Marketing, leads, qualifying customers

≈ 10 hrs / wk — most time

2

Deliver the work

Onboarding, scheduling, doing the service

≈ 3 hrs / wk

3

Run the business

Invoicing, reporting, investor updates

≈ 2 hrs / wk

Here the time leak is in getting the work — leads piling up unanswered. But yours may sit anywhere: services founders stall at delivery, marketplaces at matching. Locate yours, then aim today's build straight at it.

The one-page Spec Canvas

Fill this before opening any tool. Here's a worked example for a slow-lead bottleneck.

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• 1. The one bottleneck

Inbound leads sit untouched. We spend ~10h/week manually reading requests and drafting replies.

2. Inputs

Web form submissions

Attached pitch decks (PDF)

3. AI step

Score lead against our criteria

Draft a tailored reply

4. Outputs

Lead row in a dashboard

Draft email ready to send

5. The spec sentence — paste this into the tool

"Build a dashboard of leads with columns Name, Email, Score, Draft. When a form is submitted, score the lead 1–5 against my criteria, draft a reply, and add a row."

Spec, in practice

Same tool, very different result

The strong prompt is just your Spec Canvas, written as one instruction.

Open Interactive Spec Canvas Open Prompt Upgrader Project Knowledge & Skills Request a Consult Main Site

Vibe prompt

"Make me a CRM with AI that handles my leads and is really easy to use."

No data named, no trigger, no output. The tool guesses — and you spend an hour correcting guesses.

Spec-driven prompt

"Build a leads table with columns Name, Email, Score, Draft. When a form is submitted, score the lead 1–5 against [my criteria], write a draft reply, and add a row. Show newest first."

Names the data, the trigger, and the output. The tool builds the right thing on the first pass.

Show Prompt Flow

Know the toolbox — pick the simplest tool that fits

Power rises left to right, and so does the learning curve. You rarely need the powerful end — you need the one that matches your spec.

Open Tool Spectrum Cheatsheet Request a Consult Main Site

Easier to start · faster

More power · steeper curve

No-code

Describe it in plain words → it builds the app.

L

Lovable

Today

⚡

Bolt

v0

v0 by Vercel

Re

Replit

Bu

Bubble

Best fit today — fast MVPs, zero setup.

Low-code

Wire apps together and add a little logic.

Z

Zapier

M

Make

n8

n8n

Rt

Retool

Reach here to connect tools and automate steps between them.

Advanced · pro-code

AI agents that write and run real code.

CC

Claude Code

Cu

Cursor

Cx

OpenAI Codex

Ag

Google Antigravity

Co

GitHub Copilot

Most power, steepest curve — not for today's two hours.

These names shift fast — swap in whatever's current. The lesson is the spectrum: match the tool to your spec, not to the hype.

Every app is just three parts

A good spec sentence already names all three — so this is your checklist to confirm it's complete, and to see which tool covers what.

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Part 1

Data — where it lives

The handful of things you track. In the spec: your columns (Leads, Clients). Easy to forget.

Today: Lovable Airtable Supabase

Part 2

Logic — what happens

When X happens, do Y. This is exactly your spec's AI step — already done.

Today: Lovable AI Make Zapier

Part 3

Interface — the screen

Where you or your client use it. In the spec: your dashboard. Also easy to forget.

Today: Lovable Retool

Your spec already wrote all three — Lovable turns that one description into the whole app. A second tool only if a step has to leave it.

Pick a use case that fits two hours

Find your bottleneck phase below, then steal a starter build. A finished small workflow beats a half-built big one.

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Starter · a guaranteed win, by bottleneck phase

1

Get the work

Smart lead inbox ~1.5 hr

Capture web leads; AI scores each 1–5 and drafts a reply.

Discovery-call brief ~1 hr

Paste a prospect's link; AI writes a one-page prep sheet.

2

Deliver the work

Onboarding packet ~1.5 hr

Client fills an intake form; AI builds a welcome + next-steps checklist.

Booking + confirmation ~1 hr

Simple booking form; AI drafts a tailored confirmation and prep note.

3

Run the business

Investor tracker + updates ~1 hr

Log conversations; click a row and AI drafts a tidy progress update.

Weekly metrics digest ~1 hr

Enter a few numbers; AI writes the stakeholder update narrative.

Stretch · for confident builders or pairs (pick one — don't stack)

Deliver2 hr+

Client intake → proposal

Intake form in; AI drafts a proposal or contract. Scope to the draft — leave e-signatures for later.

Product MVP2 hr+

Marketplace skeleton

Buyer list, vendor list, matching view. Build the listing + matching workflow only; payments come much later.

Run2 hr+

Automated client report

A few inputs in; AI writes a branded client report. Add one chart only if time remains.

Guardrails for the 2-hour build

Four rules that get you out the door with something that actually runs.

1

The 15-minute blueprint rule

No tool opens until your Spec Canvas is filled and a mentor has glanced at it.

2

Ship one workflow, end to end

One input → one AI step → one output. Make that work before adding anything.

3

Stay on one bottleneck

Resist the second idea. Note it on your canvas and come back to it after lunch.

4

Work in your own language

Write your prompts in French or English — the AI understands both, even if the tool's UI is in English.

Hands-on starts now

Your next 15 minutes

Don't open a tool yet. Do these three things first.

1

Fill the canvas

One bottleneck, inputs, AI step, outputs, one spec sentence.

2

Grab a sounding board

Get a 60-second gut-check before you build anything.

3

Build one workflow

Open Lovable and make the single workflow run end to end.

At noon, demo the workflow working — not the code. Let's build.

Velocity by Design

How the morning flows

The Capability Gradient

Potency of Action

The danger of "vibe coding"

The Bottleneck → Build loop

Map

Spec

Architect

Build

Find your bottleneck

The one-page Spec Canvas

Same tool, very different result

Know the toolbox — pick the simplest tool that fits

Every app is just three parts

Pick a use case that fits two hours

Guardrails for the 2-hour build

The 15-minute blueprint rule

Ship one workflow, end to end

Stay on one bottleneck

Work in your own language

Your next 15 minutes

Fill the canvas

Grab a sounding board

Build one workflow

Spec-Driven Prompt Flow

Fill the Spec Canvas

Copy the Integrated Prompt

Upgrade with Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT

Paste and Build in Lovable

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