Workflow · saas · workflow
Building Your Own Product Copilot: Challenges, Opportunities, and Needs
Software engineers building product copilots face pain points at every step of the engineering process — including prompt engineering, orchestration, and testing — because existing software engineering processes and tools have not caught up with the challenges involved in building AI-powered applications.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · User query as trigger
A user provides a query or command to the product copilot to initiate an interaction.
Tools used
GPT-4Mural
Outcome
(not stated)
Grounding & classification
Source type: technical build writeup
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