
Industry Insights
Build vs. Buy in the Agent Era: When Off-the-Shelf Beats Custom
Every platform you already pay for is shipping agents, and every engineering team wants to build their own. The old build-vs-buy calculus doesn't survive the agent era intact — differentiation moved out of the model, maintenance became the dominant cost, and the right answer is usually a portfolio, not a policy.
Aug 16, 2026 5 min




















































