Build vs Buy vs Agent: The Decision Framework
Every business reaches the same crossroads: do we build it ourselves, buy a tool off the shelf, or use an AI agent to handle it? The wrong answer wastes months and thousands. This course gives you a decision framework grounded in real cost analysis — not vendor hype.
What you'll learn
This course is for you if...
Course syllabus
- The three-option model
- Decision criteria by business context
- Common decision biases
- Running a structured evaluation
Taught by the people who build this
Arifur is a BUET graduate and co-founder of SocioFi Technology. He has spent the last several years building AI-native software systems and working directly with founders and SMEs to take products from prototype to production. He teaches what he has learned from doing it — not from theory.
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We were about to spend $80k on custom software. The TCO analysis in this course showed a SaaS tool would do 90% of the job at 10% of the cost.
Short, dense, and immediately useful. I now run every tooling decision through this framework.
