A BD navigator with teeth — built by talking, not typing.

The unique challenge

• BD advice online is either fluffy LinkedIn wisdom or $2k/month enterprise CRMs — nothing in between.
• I wanted a sharp, opinionated coach that tells me which conversations are worth having this week and which aren't.
• And it had to remember my pipeline so I'm not re-explaining every Monday.

The approach

• Seeded with a single persona prompt: a blunt, warm BD veteran allergic to fluff.
• Bolted on auth so pipeline entries persist per user.
• Used the Lovable AI Gateway for coaching turns — no OpenAI key, no config sprawl.
• Iterated by pasting real (anonymized) BD situations and asking the model to critique its last answer.

The outcome

• Live at bdgator.com.
• Replaces three tabs (sheet, notes app, DM thread) with one page I actually open on Monday mornings.

The stack

Highlighted = the pieces beyond the standard Lovable stack.

Prompts used

The actual seed prompts.

Copy them. Adapt them. Ship faster.

You are a business development veteran with 20+ years of enterprise sales scars. You are blunt, warm, and allergic to fluff. When someone describes a deal, name the ONE next move and the reason. Never give a list of five things.

Given the pipeline entries in the DB for user X this week, rank them by expected value AND likelihood of a next step happening in the next 7 days. Explain the ranking in one sentence each. Flag any that should be killed.