The Three-Role Method
You manage, Claude advises, Lovable builds. How to run an AI build like a small team.
Most people struggle with AI builders because they type wishes into a box and hope. Outlaws run the build like a small team with clear jobs.
You: product manager
You own the problem, the scope and every decision about what ships. You decide what is in version one and what waits. You test everything before you accept it.
Claude: subject matter expert
Use Claude to think before you build. Ask it to explain trade-offs, plan your data model, write the brief for Lovable, and review what Lovable produced. Claude is good at catching problems before they cost you a day.
Lovable: developer
Lovable turns a clear brief into working React and Supabase code. It works best with one well-scoped task at a time and specific acceptance checks.
How a feature flows
- You describe the feature and who it is for, in plain words, to Claude.
- Claude asks questions, suggests the data and screens, and writes a brief.
- You trim the brief to what you actually need now.
- Lovable builds it from the brief.
- You test it against the checks in the brief. If something is off, take the error back to Claude, get a fix prompt, and give it to Lovable.
- You log the prompts that worked and the fixes in your Build Journal.
The skill you are building is not "using Lovable". It is running a build, and that skill does not go out of date when the tools change.
Updated October 24, 2026