Build vs Buy AI Agents: A Practical Decision Framework
A practitioner’s guide to build vs buy AI agents. Compare options, see a decision matrix by workflow risk, and get concrete “pick X if” recommendations.
8 min read
Internal AI Platforms
Your company's own AI platform, end to end
We build the internal AI platform your team will actually use — connected to GitHub, Jira, Snowflake, Notion, Linear, and Slack. Writes code, reviews PRs, generates reports, runs ops workflows.
The work
Off-the-shelf AI tools stop at the boundary of your data. We build the agentic platform that crosses it — with auth and audit baked in, scoped permissions, and human-in-the-loop where it matters. Patterns we've shipped in production, tailored to your org.
Outcomes
- One Slack-native interface for engineering, ops, and analytics
- Agents that can read and write across your tool stack with auditable actions
- Per-team scopes and approval workflows
- Eval + observability so you know what's working
- Cost controls that scale with your usage
What you get
- Architecture and security review
- Production deployment on your cloud (or ours)
- Connector library for your integrations
- Admin console + audit log
- Quarterly roadmap reviews
Further reading
All articles →Snowflake Cortex Analyst: Production Readiness Beyond the Demo
A practitioner’s guide to making Cortex Analyst reliable: semantic model design, verified queries, ambiguity handling, evaluation and rollout, and cost controls.
9 min read
Business Intelligence Slack Bot with AI You Can Verify
How to build a verifiable BI Slack bot: metrics grounding, identity and RLS, clarifying questions, SQL citations, guardrails, formatting, feedback, and a pilot scope.
6 min read
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