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Shipping AI-Native Apps on a Two-Week Cycle

How we structure a KiteLabs build: week one is a vertical slice, week two is the eval flywheel.

May 30, 2026

Every KiteLabs app ships in two-week increments. Not because the model is fast — because the feedback loop has to be.

Week one

One vertical slice, end-to-end, with the dumbest possible model and a hard-coded prompt. The point is to feel the seams.

Week two

  • Wire the eval harness.
  • Swap the dumb model for the cheap-and-good one.
  • Capture every production trace into the dataset.

By the end of week two we know whether the app can be great, not just whether the demo works.