EP 103🟢 Foundation
2025-07-175 min read

From Prompt Hacks to AI Business Systems That Scale

Why most AI startups fail: prompt engineering alone isn't scalable. Learn the structural capabilities needed to build sustainable AI-powered businesses that actually work.

What We Covered

Why most AI startups fail: the prompting-as-business trap and its inevitable breakdown

The Prompt Engineer Trap: from initial magic to manual cleanup and customer complaints

System architecture fundamentals: why prompts need underlying infrastructure to be reliable

Real-world case study: rebuilding a broken mega-prompt as a proper agent system

Systems thinking shift: prompts as interfaces to business logic, not the logic itself

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