Why the AI Is Named After a Grass

The AI assistant was named Lawn Buddy. It was a placeholder name — the kind of thing you type into a system prompt at midnight because you need something to call it. It sounded like a retriever puppy, not a CRM tool.

Bermuda grass is the most common warm-season lawn variety in the Southeast. It's resilient, it spreads aggressively, it thrives under pressure. A better namesake for an AI that queries databases and generates reports than "Buddy."

Six files changed. The system prompt, the frontend component, the feature flag data, the layout comment, the changelog entry. The generic chat icon in the floating action button became the app's own logo — the lawn tool mark — with a unique gradientId prop to avoid SVG gradient ID collisions when multiple logo instances exist on the same page.

A rename is a naming decision, and naming decisions are branding decisions. The tool that talks to your CRM should feel like it belongs to the product, not like it was bolted on by a generic AI integration.