Eazyware vs building an in-house AI team
Hire in-house when AI is core to your product for years and you can attract and retain the engineers. Use a partner when you need the first system shipped this quarter, when the skills are needed once rather than always, or when you want a fixed price and date. Most mid-market companies do both: a partner builds the first system, an internal owner grows into it.
In-house team
Your own AI engineers: continuity, product knowledge and full control, after you have hired and kept them.
Eazyware
A squad that has shipped this before, at a fixed price and date, leaving you the code, the prompts and the evaluation suite.
Verdict by criterion
| Criterion | In-house team | Eazyware |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first system | 3–6 months to hire, then build | 6–16 weeks, starting this month |
| Cost of the first year | Salaries, tooling and ramp-up regardless of output | Fixed programme fees for defined outcomes |
| Product knowledge | Deep and permanent | Learned during discovery, documented at handover |
| Breadth of experience | What your hires have seen | Patterns from many production systems |
| Continuity | Yours, if you retain them | Care plan or a monthly squad |
| Ownership of the work | Yours | Yours on payment: code, prompts, weights, docs |
| Risk if it does not work | Salaries already spent | Fixed-price discovery answers it in ten days |
| Scaling up or down | Hiring and redundancy | Squad size changes with the roadmap |
What we would say in your position
If AI is going to be in your product every quarter for the next three years, hire. Start with one strong engineer who owns it, and give them a system that already works to own rather than a blank page. If AI is a capability you need now and occasionally later, a partner is cheaper and faster, and the ownership clause means you are never locked in.
The blend that works
- A partner builds the first system with evaluation suites, documentation and a care plan.
- You name an internal owner from day one who joins the weekly reviews.
- The handover is pairing, not a document drop.
- The partner stays on a care plan while the owner recruits around the working system.
- The second system is built together; the third is built by your team.
What to insist on either way
Ownership of code, prompts and weights; an evaluation suite; documentation; and a running-cost model. With those, the partner is replaceable and the in-house team is set up to succeed. Without them, both options are expensive. Our stance is on the About page and the terms are in Terms of Service.
Frequently asked questions
Will we be locked in?
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No. You own the code, infrastructure definitions, prompts and fine-tuned weights on payment, with our pre-existing tools licensed inside the deliverables.
Can you work alongside our engineers?
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Yes, and it is our preference: your team in the reviews, pairing on the handover, and owning the system afterwards.
What if we want to hire after the first project?
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Good. A working system with evals and documentation is the best thing to hand a new hire, and we stay on a care plan until they are ready.