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Build, Buy a Platform, or Hire an FDE? How to Choose Your Enterprise AI Adoption Path in 2026

Small businesses and one-person companies adopting AI in 2026 have three real paths: build in-house, buy a general agent platform (Nano Work / ChatGPT for small business), or hire a forward-deployed engineer (FDE). A cost / speed / control / scale comparison table shows exactly which one fits — and where each hits a wall.

July 30, 20268 min read

FDE Insights

OpenAI Presence & the Rise of the FDE: Who Should Deploy Your Enterprise AI Agents?

OpenAI now sends its own Forward Deployed Engineers on-site to stand up enterprise agents through a product called Presence. That quietly turns "build vs. buy" into a three-way decision—AI lab, in-house team, or independent partner—and the right answer depends on control, lock-in, and whether you've built the evaluation and governance to run agents in production at all.

July 30, 20268 min read

AI Implementation

Rent an LLM API or Build Your Own AI Agent? A 2026 Enterprise Build-vs-Buy Framework

Renting a frontier API and owning your own agents aren't a binary — they're points on a curve that moves with scale. Here's an answer-first 2026 framework for when to rent, when to build, where the cost inflection point actually sits, and why the companies that cross the adoption threshold hire more, not fewer, people.

July 12, 20269 min read

#build-vs-buy

Build, Buy a Platform, or Hire an FDE? How to Choose Your Enterprise AI Adoption Path in 2026

OpenAI Presence & the Rise of the FDE: Who Should Deploy Your Enterprise AI Agents?

Rent an LLM API or Build Your Own AI Agent? A 2026 Enterprise Build-vs-Buy Framework

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