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The Practical AI Field Guide for Real-World Teams (6 Pages)

Decide when to buy, build, or blend—and design an AI strategy you can trust.

If you’re sorting through AI pitches, pilots, and plugins, you don’t need hype—you need a plan. This 6-page field guide gives you a clear way to choose off-the-shelf vs. custom, avoid vendor lock-in, and align AI with your data, workflows, compliance, and distribution.

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What’s inside

01

Decision map

Buy, build, or blend—how to move fast without painting yourself into a corner

03

Cost clarity for LLM work

What you actually pay for per task and how to push it down quarterly

05

Adoption playbook 

7 steps to go from pilot to measurable KPI lift 

02

Own vs. rent

Which layers create moats (and which are safe to outsource)

04

Portability by design 

Prompts, indexes, and retrieval you can take with you 

06

Investor checklist 

4 proofs that separate a business from an LLM wrapper 

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