How do you know you are building something real?

Building my first solo project with Ai was a roller coaster of emotions and insecurity leeched into every line of code.

The question that drove Iliad was am I actually building something real or am I trusting a customer service bot that a product exists at the end of this journey.

So I built Iliad along side my neural gaming engine development and 3D mesh editor to perform deterministic (rule based) analysis of my repos every step of the way. And as both projects grew I started designing it to protect the IP from the public build without paying $220k/yr developer to keep me on track.

What is your peace of mind and IP protection worth?