Case Study: MeetZaya

A career co-pilot tool. 1,536 commits. 65 steel threads. 12 months. Cancelled.

This case study travels with 201 Specification and the Work Unit, where the project method is taught, and is the companion insight to ACI-025 (When Coding Succeeds but the Project Fails). It is presented in three parts that build on each other: what happened technically, why the project failed despite the code working, and what the failure reveals about the economics of agentic coding. The story is told by the developer who built it. MeetZaya sits outside the repositories this course re-measures, so its figures here are the developer's own, and illustrative.