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Read before you hire anyone.

Plain answers to the questions buyers ask before they hire anyone, including the answers that argue against hiring us.

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The first four cover cost and the build-or-buy decision. The rest show finished work and our measurement research. None of them ask for your email.

The four questions

Real price ranges, what moves the price, and the running costs that rarely get quoted upfront.

When an off-the-shelf tool is the right call and when custom is. Most businesses end up with a mix.

Where no-code stops being enough, from a team that ships both.

The questions to ask and the red flags to watch for.

The most useful request is to see something they built that is running today.

Three ways to stop missing calls, with the cases where each one wins.

What separates a made site from a generated one, shown on the page itself.

A teardown of a site that writes its own content every day, with its architecture and running costs shown.

One failing node can damage a shared model while the fleet score stays flat. Includes measured results from our harness.

Keys and signing, demo vs production, rate limits, and reconciling fills, from running automated systems on it.

How contamination inflates a model's reported accuracy, and why the usual defenses miss it.

The measurement side of the practice, and the basis of our federal capability statement.

Four questions and an honest range. No email needed.

What unanswered calls cost you in a year, and when fixing it pays for itself.

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