Answers
The short answer first, the reasoning after.
Where owning a system is the wrong call, the answer says so, and each one links to the longer argument.
What does owning your automation actually mean?
What stays in your accounts when the invoice stops.
What is an AI agent in a business process?
One narrow job, done in production, with a human able to stop it.
What is agent isolation, and why one Linux user per agent?
The blast radius of an agent is set by the operating system.
What does business process automation cost?
What moves the number: integrations, exceptions, judgement, failure cost.
Open source versus SaaS: the real total cost of ownership
What a free licence costs you in attention.
When should you not self-host?
Five situations where the subscription is the better decision.
How to evaluate an AI agent or automation vendor
The questions that separate a build from a subscription.
Open-weight models versus frontier models for business
Cost, privacy and capability, decided one agent at a time.