When should companies consider partnering with an AI development team versus building in-house?
Companies should consider partnering when their core team cannot handle the long-term burden of maintaining a live AI system. This includes production hardening, AI operations firefighting, and managing the continuous grind of model maintenance. Partnering frees companies to focus on their actual product logic instead of being on call for model failures, especially when they lack specialists in MLOps and data engineering who prevent catastrophic, expensive failures after launch.