Navigate AI buy vs build decisions

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What it does

Advise on model build-vs-buy decisions

Best for

Strategic AI decisions when founders/CAIOs need 3-year TCO, regulatory risk tier, and API-vs-self-hosted breakeven for each use case.

Inputs

· Use case description
· QPS, latency budget, cost budget, quality SLO
· EU AI Act risk tier, monthly token volume

Outputs

· Build-vs-buy recommendation (API/fine-tune/in-house)
· 3-year TCO comparison
· Risk classification under EU AI Act + US state law
· API-to-self-hosted breakeven month

Requires

· Python stdlib
· model_buildvsbuy_calculator.py
· ai_risk_classifier.py
· ai_cost_economics.py

Preconditions

Use case clearly scoped; QPS and latency budget known; no hallucination SLO means no ship decision possible

Failure modes

Fine-tuning recommended when frontier model is sufficient → sunk cost + ongoing retraining; self-hosted chosen at 50M tokens/month when API scales cheaper; risk tier misclassified as low when it's high-risk under EU AI Act

Trust signals

· Includes concrete scripts and examples
· Code examples provided
· Known failure modes documented