Case Study: MeetZaya

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

This case study backs Day 4 — the process and where it still breaks down — and is the companion insight to ACI-004 (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.