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Build vs Buy: 3-Year Total Cost
3-year total cost
Build it yourself $3.58M
Buy ProdE $1.77M
Save ~$1.4M over 3 years Live month 1, not month 12.
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saved over 3 years. Start using ProdE today, not 12 months from now.
Build it yourself, 3-year cost
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Buy ProdE, 3-year cost
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What each year actually looks like
| Build it yourself | Buy ProdE | |
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| Year 1 | — 2 senior AI engineers building, recruiting, R&D, infra, AI tools. Nothing for your team to use yet. | — Your team starts using it day one. |
| Year 2 | — 1 AI engineer to maintain, — support FTEs (1 per 500 users), R&D, infra, AI tools. | — We keep making it better. |
| Year 3 | — Same labor as Year 2, plus more R&D rework as new AI models drop. | — Same. We handle updates. |
Your engineers should be building your product
- Your AI engineers' time is better spent on your product, not on building internal tools.
- AI models change every few months. Every change means weeks of work to keep your tool working.
- Buy ProdE and save ~— engineers and — over 3 years. Put that into your product instead.
"ProdE is the only tool we've used that actually understands our codebase end to end. Engineers and PMs trust it, and it cuts through a lot of back and forth."
Mayank Kapoor · SVP, Leena AI (YC S18) · 2,450+ engineering hours saved in 3 months
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