AI-built apps rarely fail because one prompt was bad. They fail because product truth, code truth, and the build workflow split apart.
Most drifting apps still look polished on the surface. The real break is underneath: overlapping concepts, duplicate write paths, untrusted state transitions, and a build process that keeps patching around those breaks instead of naming them.
The builder experiences drift as confusion. They stop trusting their own screens, stop knowing which record is real, and lose confidence that the next Claude, Cursor, or Codex session will improve anything instead of compounding the mess.
A recovery pass makes the product boundary, authority boundary, and build boundary explicit before the next implementation session. That is the difference between more prompting and a controlled return to the product.
Move from the failure pattern to a real recovery example before opening your own case.
If this failure pattern looks familiar, move into the Case Room and bound the app before another coding session drifts it further.
Understand how Driftbreak moves from intake to package without pretending the case is already clear.
Review what the architecture, blueprint, workflow, and coding sessions actually look like.
Start a case once you want the bounded architecture and implementation handoff for your own app.
