<p dir="ltr">A single AI engineer costs $150K-$250K/year in salary alone &mdash; before recruiting time, infra, and the learning curve. For most businesses (unless you're building AI as your core product), an experienced agency delivers faster at lower total cost, and you're not stuck if that one hire leaves.

<p dir="ltr">Rule of thumb: if AI is core to your product long-term, build in-house. If it's a feature/workflow improvement, go custom dev partner.



<p dir="ltr">More on how to evaluate this: https://primafelicitas.com/what-we-do/ai-development-services/