Compare building, buying, and partnering on total cost of ownership, time-to-value, and lock-in risk. Score vendors against criteria your committee weights openly.
Most build-vs-buy decisions are settled by the loudest voice in the room or the most polished vendor deck. Total cost of ownership gets underestimated — integration, maintenance, and talent costs surface after the contract is signed. Lock-in and exit costs are rarely priced at all. And when the criteria are decided after the options are on the table, the scoring justifies a preference instead of testing it.
An interactive model that puts build, buy, and partner on the same footing: full-cost TCO for each path, time-to-value, and lock-in risk — with vendor scoring against criteria your committee weights before seeing results. Move the assumptions and watch which ones flip the answer, before you sign anything.
Three steps to a build-vs-buy decision your committee can defend.
Real build-vs-buy questions executives can answer with our simulators.
Should we build this capability in-house or license it? What does each path really cost over five years?
Which vendor wins when we weight the criteria openly — and does the ranking survive a change in assumptions?
What does it cost to leave this vendor in three years? How much lock-in risk are we actually accepting?
Should we develop this capability ourselves or partner for it? When does the economics of each flip?
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