Briefs · engineering
Build vs Buy Decision
Decide whether to build it, buy it, or partner — with eyes open.
You walk away with
A build / buy / partner recommendation with total cost and risk laid bare.
Decidi convenes
🏗️ The CTO🏛️ The Software Architect💰 The CFO🔧 The Pragmatist🤝 The Dealmaker📊 The Strategy Consultant
Recommended level: Standard — Proven pro models — the everyday default.
What the council debates
Help us decide whether to build, buy, or partner for a capability we need. THE CAPABILITY: [what you need, and why it matters to the business] BUILD OPTION: [rough effort, who would build it, ongoing maintenance] BUY OPTION: [the vendors/tools, cost, fit, lock-in] PARTNER OPTION (if any): [the partnership shape] Debate: 1. Is this core to our differentiation (build) or a commodity (buy). 2. True total cost of building — including maintenance, opportunity cost and the forever-tax. 3. Buy risks — lock-in, vendor viability, fit gaps, integration cost. 4. Time-to-value and what each path costs us in months. 5. Reversibility — how stuck are we if we are wrong. FINAL SYNTHESIS: - A recommendation: BUILD, BUY, or PARTNER, with the decisive reason. - The total honest cost of the recommended path over two years. - The condition that would flip the decision.
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