LLM Project Lifecycle (Infographic)

The six phases

1. Problem framing — is this actually an LLM-shaped problem?
2. Data & context — what does the model need to see to be useful?
3. Prototype — build the thinnest end-to-end slice with prompting + RAG.
4. Evaluate — write evals before you optimize anything.
5. Ship — add guardrails, cost controls, observability.
6. Iterate — update prompts, chunks, and models as the world changes.

Authoring infographics

Keep infographics as SVG — they stay crisp, they’re tiny, and you can edit them in Figma, Illustrator, or Excalidraw and export. Put them in public/infographics/ and reference them with a plain <img> tag.