How to ship an AI tool in 4 weeks

Four weeks is enough time to build and ship one well-scoped AI tool. The discipline is in the scoping: one workflow, one user type, one input format, one output format. This guide breaks the four weeks into a day-by-day plan that works for someone spending 3–5 hours a week on the build.

What's covered

• 1Week 0 scoping: the brief format and the constraints that make a four-week build realistic
• 2Weeks 1–4 build plan: what to build each week, how to test it, and how to know when to move on
• 3Decision guide: when to scope down, when to push forward, and when to stop and ship what you have
• 4Deployment checklist: what needs to be true before you can call the tool shipped