Buying AI work
Advice for buying AI work.
The hard part is not finding an agency. It is knowing what to ask before you believe the pitch.
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Write an AI Project Brief That Gets Comparable Proposals
A one-page brief for defining the workflow, data, success measure, boundaries, and handoff before you ask consultants to price the work.
AI Agent Security: What Buyers Need to Ask
Questions to use when an AI system can call tools, read private data, or trigger workflows, from permissions to production controls.
AI Compliance Questions to Ask Before You Hire an Agency
Questions for checking governance, data handling, risk classification, and launch evidence before implementation begins.
RAG, Fine-Tuning, or Neither? Questions to Ask Before You Build
How to ask whether retrieval, fine-tuning, both, or a simpler workflow fits the job before you approve a build.
What Actually Breaks When AI Agents Reach Production
Where connected AI workflows fail in production, including permissions, cost overruns, and missing controls.
How to Calculate the ROI of AI Automation
How to put costs, payback, and measurable workflow changes into an automation business case.
What MCP Changes About an AI Integration
What MCP changes about integration work and what to ask before an agency connects AI to business systems.
Your AI Vendor Can Become a Business Risk
A buyer’s look at model pricing, policy, data retention, procurement exposure, and portability.
How to Choose an AI Agency Without Buying the Pitch
A checklist for testing an agency’s evidence, delivery team, scope, pricing, and handoff terms.
What AI Agency Work Costs and What Changes the Price
Planning figures from $5K chatbots to $500K+ enterprise AI integration, with the assumptions and proposal details that move the price.
Ten Types of AI Agency Work, Explained
Ten common service labels translated into the business problems, systems, and buying questions behind them.
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