When should a team bring in specialist partners for an AI project?
Teams should bring in specialist partners when they have strong data science expertise but lack experience building production-ready, fault-tolerant software systems. This is particularly crucial for Agentic AI projects that require robust DevOps for monitoring, cybersecurity for action restrictions, and engineering for reliable system integration. Bringing in partners early prevents designing systems that cannot function reliably in real-world environments, saving significant rework costs.