Building Launchpad

There’s a gap in how AI development actually works, and nobody talks about it enough. You build something that works. A summarizer, a classifier, an extractor. The model behavior is good, the prompt is tuned, the output is reliable. And then you spend the next two weeks answering questions that have nothing to do with any of that: How do we call this from the frontend? Can Claude Desktop use this as a tool? Can we run this in a batch pipeline? The AI part is done. The infrastructure part isn’t. And this infrastructure looks almost identical across every AI project. It just gets rebuilt from scratch each time. ...

August 9, 2026 · 3 min · Sankalp Shekhar