Brushy
View Case Study →A toothbrush timer app for iOS and Android. No smart toothbrush required.
- 1 intent
- 3 hours total
- 15 min AI build time
- 2.5 hours: idea + intent
- 30 min: testing
Case Studies
Real work. Real artifacts. Real time.
These builds were planned and executed using Trail. Each one shows what the framework looks like in practice — from intent to shipped output.
Get YouTube Transcript
Coming SoonA Chrome extension that adds a one-click button to copy a video transcript to the clipboard.
- 1 intent
- 1 hour total
- 15 min AI build time
- 15 minutes: Idea and building intent
- 15 minutes: AI writes the code
- 30 minutes: Troubleshoot edge case for videos with chapters
Export ChatGPT Chat
Coming SoonA Chrome extension that exports an entire ChatGPT conversation to a markdown file, with line numbers and speaker labels.
- 1 intent
- 40 minutes total
- 10 min AI build time
- 10 minutes: Idea and building intent
- 10 minutes: AI writes the code
- 10 minutes: Testing
Otaku Haven LLC
View Case Study →49 internally consistent business documents across seven domains, planned and executed end-to-end with Trail. Roughly 10x less labor than equivalent consultant work, delivered in a single workday rather than weeks.
- 7 intents
- 9 runs
- 49 documents
- 12.25 hrs total (Architect/PO)
- 3 hrs 16 min: AI execution
- ~10x hour compression at midpoint
VenturaNomadica.com
View Case Study →The Ventura Nomadica company website is a PHP/HTML/CSS site built end-to-end using Trail across four intents. It includes a real-world example of Trail stopping work due to an ambiguous intent. See results.md in intent-003.
- 4 intents
- 4 hours planning
- 15 min AI build time
- 1 hour 45 minutes: testing/review
trail.venturanomadica.com
View Case Study →The Trail Framework website. A PHP/HTML/CSS site built end-to-end using Trail — the intent package and full run history are in the repository.
- 3 intents
- 4 hours planning
- 15 min AI build time
- 45 minutes: testing
The pattern is the same across all of them: most of the time is in the thinking. The execution is almost embarrassingly fast.