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AI Builder Design Test on the Lab bench — four builders, same prompts, very different results

VerdictPal Lab's second first-party protocol: four identical multi-turn design prompts through Lovable, v0, Replit, and Bolt. Run 01 recorded a Turn 1 ranking (Lovable → v0 → Replit → Bolt) and the cost-of-arrival in each vendor's native unit — no padded leaderboard, formal scored rows pending a repeatable rubric. /benchmarks/ai-builder-design-test · /benchmarks/lab

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