Step 3: Configure AI Business Stack

AI tools are your force multiplier. They allow you to operate as a one-person agency: drafting marketing copy, calculating budget layouts, and writing clean codebase components. In this step, you configure your IDE securely and prepare your business prompts.

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🎯 Step Objectives

• Configure Privacy Mode in Cursor or Antigravity IDE.
• Establish your AI prompts for copy-writing and project analysis.

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🏃‍♂️ Action Guide

1. Privacy Settings (Crucial)

To respect commercial client confidentiality, verify that telemetry collection is turned off:

• In Cursor: Open Cursor Settings (Gear icon) -> General -> Toggle Privacy Mode to ON. Then go to regular Settings (Cmd+,), search for telemetry, and check that telemetry is disabled.
• In Antigravity: Set telemetry.enabled = false and agent.sharing = false in your .antigravityrc config file.

2. Craft Business Scaffolding Prompts

Use your AI assistant to quickly analyze client friction points and design solutions. Add these prompts to your helper template:

• Copywriting Prompt:

  Context: I am drafting a headline and introductory copy for my portfolio page.
  My target service is [Service Offering] for [Target Niche].
  
  Task: Write 3 compelling variations of client-facing headline copy focusing on business outcomes (e.g., saving hours, gaining leads) rather than technical syntax jargon.

• System Scoping Prompt:

  Context: A client in [Niche] needs an online form that syncs contacts to Google Sheets and shoots email confirmations.
  
  Task: Draft a simple architectural outline summarizing the technical flow, estimated integration complexity (easy, moderate, hard), and potential API/service costs (e.g., SendGrid, Vercel free tiers).