I builtTheTank.It cost thousands.Meerkat is what I wish I'd had.

I spent months building an AI tool with v0, Cursor, and Claude — a research and build platform for founders. The idea was good. The execution should have been faster than it was. Instead I watched my credit meter tick down every time I asked for something the model couldn't quite hear, and every time I had to re-roll the same generation because my prompt was a wish instead of a brief.

By the time it shipped I had spent thousands on credits and hadn't made a dime back. The tool works. The math doesn't. The reason — and I sat with this for a long time before I admitted it — wasn't the AI. It was that nobody, including me, was good at telling the AI what we actually wanted.

Engineers, designers, marketers, support leads, founders — everyone whose job lives near a model is becoming a prompt writer, whether they signed up for it or not. Meerkat exists so the next person doesn't learn that lesson the same way I did. You bring the idea or the draft. Meerkat asks the questions a senior editor would have asked. You walk out with a clean prompt that does the job on turn one instead of turn eight.