Before you pay to build it, answer these eight questions
Name one thing you are thinking of building, and this page tells you whether it is a fix, a build, or a buy, what the decision depends on, who you can ask about each part, and what each route costs over the next three years.
Eight questions, about five minutes · “I do not know yet” is a valid answer · nothing to connect
The steps that actually exist
Whether the steps are written down, or still in people's heads with everyone doing it differently.
How much of it is yours
Whether this carries a way of working that belongs to your company, the part a competitor could not match even with the same tool, or whether it is something every company has to have.
Who maintains it
Who owns it in two years, who fixes it when it breaks, and what work people get pulled off if you build it.
The three-year numbers
What building and buying really cost apart, once maintenance and setup are counted on both sides.
What you have to look atbefore you can decide
The first set of questions asks whether this carries something a competitor cannot copy. The second asks whether anyone can keep maintaining it. The two sets cross into four quadrants, and the answer lands in one of the five lanes on our services map.
The maths on this page is not tilted towards building. The most common answers are buy, or build nothing at all, and we say so on the result itself. The other thing worth saying plainly: every answer lands on one of our services. You can take the result and decide on your own without ever talking to us.
Where the lines are drawn
- Scoring 8 or more out of 15 on how much of it is yours counts as genuinely yours.
- Scoring 13 or more out of 25 on who maintains it counts as someone being able to carry it.
- With no long-term owner named, both lines above mean nothing, because nobody is taking it on.
Want someone to look at it with you once?
The result on this page is a starting point, not a final answer. If you still cannot tell whether your problem sits in the process, in a tool you never had, or in something you bought that was never right, the first conversation has nothing to buy in it.
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