Write effective prompts for Fliplet AI

How to write the first prompt for a Fliplet AI project: what to include, prompts to copy, and what you get back.

A prompt is the message you write to tell Fliplet AI what to build. Copy a prompt from this page, replace the words in square brackets, and send it to get a plan you can approve or change.

This page applies to Fliplet Studio when you start a project with Fliplet AI. To change a project after its first build, see Refine an app through AI iteration.

Where to enter a prompt

To start a new project: on Studio home, write in the box under What should we build? and select Start Building. Studio creates the project and passes your prompt and any attached files to the project's chat. This box appears for organizations that use Fliplet AI.
Inside a project: on the Build tab, write in the What would you like to build? box and select Send.

Both boxes have a Start dictation button if you'd rather speak your prompt. To add files, use Attach files on Studio home or Attach in the project chat.

What to put in a prompt

A short prompt works. Fliplet AI treats a short prompt as trust in its choices, not as a request for less, and works out what a complete version contains. Extra detail steers the result and saves questions, because Fliplet AI doesn't ask about anything your message already answers.

Part	Why it helps	Example wording
What it is, or the problem it solves	Sets the purpose	A tool to manage my team's tasks
Who will use it	The plan lists one flow per type of user, and those roles later drive security	Employees who log their work, and managers who track progress
Main features	Sets the scope	A list of tasks, each with an owner and a due date
Style	Skips the style question	dark, minimal, playful, corporate, bold, clean, a brand name, or a reference website
Format	Changes the structure, and Fliplet AI confirms its reading before planning	A presentation has slides with next and previous navigation, and a quiz has questions with scoring
How complete it should be	Changes how much gets built	See the next table

Words in your prompt	What Fliplet AI builds
"prototype", "quick mockup" or "MVP"	A lighter, faster build with fewer screens and minimal data
"production-ready", "launch-ready" or "ready to ship"	A more thorough build that handles edge cases
None of these	A complete, polished build with 3 to 6 screens, realistic content, and the features a real user would expect

Variables

Replace each word in square brackets, including the brackets.

Variable	What to write	Example
`[software]`	What you want built	a tool to manage my team's tasks
`[people]`	Who will use it	employees and managers
`[goal]`	What they need to get done	stop chasing updates in spreadsheets
`[role]`	One type of user	Employees
`[task]`	What that type of user does	log their work
`[feature]`	One thing the software does	a list of tasks, each with an owner and a due date
`[style]`	Style words, a brand name, or a mood	clean and corporate
`[web page]`	The address of a page whose design you like	a page on your own website
`[change]`	What you want different in the plan	remove the reports feature

Prompts to copy

Describe the full project

Use this prompt when you know what you want.

Build [software] for [people] so they can [goal].
[role] will [task]. [role] will [task].
Main features: [feature], [feature], [feature].
Style: [style].

Expected result: Fliplet AI skips its pre-build questions when the purpose, style, and format are clear, and goes to the plan. It can still ask a question about a decision it can't work out or safely default, even after a detailed prompt.

Start from a short idea

Use this prompt when you want Fliplet AI to fill in the details.

Create [software] for [people].

Expected result: Fliplet AI asks about style if your prompt doesn't mention it, and you can let it decide. It then shows a plan for a complete version.

Try an idea quickly

Use this prompt when you want something to react to before you commit to a full build.

Build a quick prototype of [software] for [people].
Main features: [feature], [feature].

Expected result: a plan for a lighter build with fewer screens and minimal data. A first build always gets a plan, even when you call it small or quick.

Match a design you like

Use this prompt when a web page already has the look you want.

Build [software] for [people].
Match the design of [web page].

Expected result: Fliplet AI skips the style question, renders the page, and saves a screenshot. Before it writes any code, it lists the colors, typography, main headline, navigation, main button label, and layout it found, so you can check them.

Get suggestions

Use this prompt when you don't have an idea yet.

I'm not sure what to build. Suggest ideas for me.

Expected result: Fliplet AI asks what you're hoping to accomplish. If you pick one of its options, it asks one follow-up with suggestions that fit your goal. If you type your own answer, it usually moves on without the follow-up.

On Studio home in a free organization, this prompt opens the Help me describe it questions instead.

What you get back

Questions. A question appears in its own box, often with choices, and usually with a place for your own answer. Every question offers Skip. A skip isn't an answer or an approval: Fliplet AI continues the work that doesn't depend on it.

A plan. Fliplet AI shows a plan before the first build of a project, and build work doesn't start until you approve it. The plan card has these sections, followed by Show full plan.

Section	What it tells you
Summary	What the project does and who it's for
Core User Flows	One line for each type of user
Functionality	The capabilities the project will have
Design direction	The style, in one line

Changes to the plan. You can't edit the plan card directly. Ask in the chat instead, for example to add or remove a feature, change the style, or "make this simpler". Fliplet AI then shows the whole revised plan and waits for your approval again.

Change the plan: [change].

Approval. Select Approve & Build [UNVERIFIED: label read from code; the only plan card available in Studio was already approved], or reply with a phrase such as "go ahead".

Stages. When a build has more than one layer, Fliplet AI explains that it will build in stages, with a working prototype first. You can ask it to build straight through instead.

Credits. Each finished reply in the project chat shows the credits it used. See Credit metering for AI builds.

If you're not sure what to write

On Studio home, select Help me describe it next to the prompt box. It opens Let's work out what to build, with these fields:

Describe your software, or the problem you're trying to solve
Describe the people who will use it
What are the main features?
Any web pages we should look at?
Any files we should look at?

You can skip fields, but Start Building stays off until at least one of the first three has an answer. A web page alone isn't enough.

Studio turns your answers into a first-person prompt that uses only what you said. With two or more answers, it adds your own answers under that prompt so no detail is lost. When the prompt is written, the build starts, with no need to go back to the prompt box.

Three things can stop that:

If your answers don't describe anything, Studio asks you for more and doesn't start a build.
If your organization is out of credits, Studio opens its credits window and keeps you on the questions.
If the prompt can't be written for another reason, Studio shows "Couldn't write that up just now. Try again, or close this and type what you can." [UNVERIFIED: message read from code; it only appears when writing the prompt fails]

On a free plan, Studio also checks the written prompt before the build. Only the entertainment and not-software results in the next section can stop it there.

If Studio stops your first prompt

Studio checks the first prompt only for organizations on a free plan, when you select Start Building and before a project is created. Paid organizations aren't checked. If the check fails to run, the build goes ahead.

What you see	Why	What you can do
Tell us a bit more and we'll build it	The prompt has no subject at all, such as "an app", "something for work" or "help"	Answer the Help me describe it questions that open
This is a big build	The software is built to entertain, such as a game, fan site, novelty, or simulator built for amusement, because of how many credits it uses	Select Edit what I wrote or See your options, because no button on the panel continues the build
This isn't something Fliplet can build	The request isn't for software Fliplet can build	Select Edit what I wrote or Help me describe it

[UNVERIFIED: headings and buttons in this table read from code; they only appear for a free organization]

Edit what I wrote closes the panel and returns you to the prompt box to change your prompt. See your options opens Studio's credits window, where admins see top-up and upgrade options and everyone else sees who to ask.

This isn't something Fliplet can build covers:

role-play, companionship, or a conversation
a document, essay, song, script, or code snippet to be handed back
editing or generating an image
a question that wants an answer
anything that could only work as a native desktop application or needs hardware Fliplet can't reach

A prompt isn't stopped for being short, and a large business system, such as an intranet or a claims system, isn't stopped for its size. Quizzes, scores, points, and leaderboards count as ordinary features, not games.

What not to ask for

> [!CAUTION] > Security: Don't paste passwords or API keys into a prompt. Fliplet AI doesn't ask you to paste credentials into the chat. A feature that needs an API key collects it in a configuration panel.

Writing that isn't for your project: in a project chat, a request for an essay, song, story, or homework gets a short reply saying Fliplet AI builds software and doesn't write that content. Text and images for your project are fine.
Account and billing changes: changes that need access Fliplet AI doesn't have go to Fliplet Support. Use Support chat in the project sidebar, or email support@fliplet.com. Fliplet AI can still help with buying credits, upgrading, and plan prices.
Harmful content: Fliplet AI declines sexual content, instructions for weapons, self-harm or crime, harassment, and tracking or accessing someone else's accounts or devices without consent, even when the request is framed as an app feature.

Studio shows "AI can make mistakes. Please verify important actions." under the chat box, so check the plan and the result before you rely on them.