Guides
Questions business owners often ask.
Build vs buy
Should you build custom AI or buy a tool off the shelf?
The question behind every AI decision: what each route costs, who owns what you pay for, and where each one fails.
- The pillar guide: Custom AI: build or buy? An honest guide
- Where does AI actually pay? The six jobs to automate first
- How much does custom AI cost in the UK?
- Who owns the AI you pay for?
- Where off-the-shelf AI tools hit their limits
- Bespoke AI vs hiring a CTO vs a dev agency
- A Ferrous Labs alternative for owner-led businesses
- A Red Eagle Tech alternative: AI specialists, not generalists
- A lower-cost alternative to The AI Consultancy
AI for recruitment agencies
What does AI actually do for a recruitment agency?
Sourcing, admin and candidate data: which jobs a system genuinely takes off a recruiter's plate, and how to stay on the right side of UK GDPR while it does.
AI for professional services
Can AI take the monthly grind off a professional services firm?
Reporting and checking are where firms quietly lose days every month, and they're the jobs a well-built system does best.
AI for PE-backed companies
How does a PE-backed company get AI right without a CTO?
The questions worth asking before money moves, and a plan for the first 90 days after it does.
- The pillar guide: AI for PE-backed companies: CTO-grade judgement without the headcount
- The AI due diligence questions worth asking
- An AI plan for the first 90 days
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