Why I Built a Business Content Layer on Top of Laravel AI SDK

I tried laravel/ai when it came out. The SDK is well-designed — clean provider abstraction, good DX. But the moment I tried to use it for real business content generation, I ran into the same problem every time. There's no business layer. You get the LLM call. Everything else — presets, context injection, output structure, tone control, anti-hallucination enforcement — you build yourself. And you rebuild it on every project. After the third time setting up the same prompt scaffolding for a payment reminder feature, I stopped and packaged it. This is what I built, why I made the decisions I made, and how it works. The problem with raw LLM calls in business apps Here's what generating a payment reminder looks like with laravel/ai directly: $ai = app ( \Laravel\Ai\Contracts\Ai :: class ); $response = $ai -> text ( "You are a professional business assistant. Generate a payment reminder email for a client. The invoice number is #1042. It is 30 days overdue. The amount is 1500 EUR. The clien