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AI studio vs consultancy
Big firms deliver a strategy and a roadmap. A software house builds what you spec. Studio Labs finds the decision worth automating, builds the agent, and stays until it holds in production.
| Studio Labs | Big-4 consultancy | Software house | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | An agent live in your production environment | A strategy and a roadmap | What you spec'd, built to order |
| Who builds it | The senior squad that designed it | Partners scope; junior teams deliver, then rotate off | Whoever is assigned to the build |
| Runs in production | Yes, under SLA, auth, RLS, evals, and guardrails | Usually a pilot or a deck | Only if you specified it |
| Time to production | Pilot in 4 to 6 weeks, production in 8 to 16 | Months of strategy first | Depends on the spec |
| Code ownership | Yours, in your repositories, from day one | Varies by contract | Usually yours |
| Cost posture | Mid-market budget: discovery from $18k, projects from $60k per use case | Commonly $500k+ for strategy alone | Priced per spec |
vs a Big-4 consultancy
Big firms are strong at strategy and at producing a roadmap. The gap shows up in delivery: senior talent scopes the engagement, then rotates to the next account before the thing is live, and what you are left with is a pilot or a deck rather than something running in your operation.
Studio Labs delivers the opposite shape. The same senior people who design the decision build the agent and stay until it holds in production, under the same SLA, auth, and guardrails as the rest of your stack.
vs a software house
A software house builds what you spec. That is useful when you already know exactly what to build. It does not help you find the decision worth automating, and it rarely owns the result once the contract ends.
We start from the decision that moves your funnel, build the agent that runs it, and level up your team so they can run the next ones without us. You own the code from day one.
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