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In-house, agency, DIY or one engineer?
Every option is right for someone. Here is where each one wins and where it hurts, including this one.
Hire in-house
Where it wins
Deep context on your business, always available, owns the system long term.
Where it hurts
Slowest to start: hiring takes months, and one hire rarely covers AI, integrations and front-end. A poor fit is expensive to undo.
Best fit
You have a steady stream of automation work, not one or two projects.
Large agency
Where it wins
Bench depth, project managers, and a brand that is easy to approve internally.
Where it hurts
Layers between you and whoever writes the code. Scoping and sales cycles are long, and small projects are often not worth their minimums.
Best fit
A large, multi-team programme with procurement requirements.
DIY with no-code
Where it wins
Cheapest to start, and your team learns the tools. Zapier, Make and n8n handle simple flows well.
Where it hurts
Breaks quietly when volume, edge cases or document handling grow, and nobody owns the fix. Approval steps and audit trails are easy to skip.
Best fit
Simple, low-risk flows between tools you already pay for.
One engineer (Omar AI)
Where it wins
You talk to the person building it. Fast to scope and ship a first workflow, with human approval steps built in.
Where it hurts
One person is one point of capacity: no bench, limited parallel work, and holidays matter. Not suited to a ten-team rollout.
Best fit
One to three well-defined processes where speed and direct access matter more than headcount.
Be honest
When you should not hire me
If any of these describe you, say so on the call and I will point you elsewhere.
- You need a vendor with a large team, formal SLAs and procurement approvals from day one.
- The process is not defined yet. Automating a process nobody can describe gives you a faster mess.
- You want a fully unattended system making high-stakes decisions with no human review.
Losing hours to work an AI system could handle?
Tell me about the process. I'll tell you straight whether it's worth automating — no pitch, no obligation.
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