When is a custom AI system worth building?
A custom AI system is worth building when a workflow is specific to how your business runs, repeats every week, and costs more in staff hours than the build and upkeep would. When the work is generic, buy a tool. When the tool forces your team to change how it works, the tool is the expensive option.
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No. 03: Build vs buy AI tools for operations: look for the side spreadsheet
On build vs buy AI tools for operations, buy wherever your workflow looks like everyone else's and build only the narrow part that is specific to how you work. The deciding cost arrives later, every day, in the workarounds a team invents when a bought tool cannot hold one of its steps.
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