Build vs. Buy: Critical Thoughts - 2025

Benefits of QuaerisAI vs. Building a Custom GenAI Solution

Every company wants to improve productivity and leverage the power of Generative AI to accelerate delivery of work and offer better quality of life to its employees. The first question that every enterprise must answer is: ‘Should we Build or Buy?’

Scope: What do you want the GenAI Platform to be?

Here are the key features that you need in a mature GenAI platform:

• Document Search: Ability to search on corporate documents in Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Box.com, etc. It should offer seamless sync of documents and respect‘folder level' security.
• Structured Data Search: A GenAI platform should be able to answer questions not only on unstructured data found in documents, but also on structured data sitting in corporate databases and data platforms. It should therefore have the ability to connect directly with major enterprise datastores/warehouses/ databases out of the box.
• Accuracy of Answers, especially on Structured Data: Accuracy of answers for questions is the holy-grail – and a GenAI platform needs to offer instant and correct responses.
• Collaborations: For effective Collaboration within the platform users should have full access to data and docs; but in Communities, users should be able to only consume what is shared.
• Dashboards & Reporting: What is data analysis if you cannot produce dashboards and reports? A good GenAI platform should also have the ability to share insights to a pinboard/dashboard and ideally even build reports. It should take users from insights to consumption all in one unified platform.
• Security: The platform must conform to the enterprise standards.
• Pricing: It is important to understand the true costs and be able to calculate TCO.
• Multi-tier Agents: Agents enable actions and can bring information to you. We believe that GenAI platforms of the future should have this capability baked in.

6 Average hours a user spends up to per week seeking documents or information

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9 Minutes that context/application switching in your 9 workflow can take up to

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Speed to Value

• Quick Deployment: QuaerisAI offers rapid, outof-the-box deployment—organizations can be up and running in as little as a day, minimizing time-to-insight.
• No Lengthy Development Cycles: Building and maintaining a custom GenAI platform often takes months to build (if not longer) due to model integration, data pipeline development, testing, provisioning, and security hardening.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

• No Upfront Development Expenses: Avoids the high costs of hiring AI specialists, developers, and data engineers that are required for a largescale custom build.
• Simple, Predictable Pricing & a Low TCO: QuaerisAI uses a transparent licensing model with easy prediction of costs as you scale. These costs are laid out in our standard Subscription Agreement, so there are no surprises. Often, in-house projects run the risk of cost and time overruns from ongoing R&D, infrastructure, and future reengineering.

Enterprise-Ready Security and Compliance

• Built-In Data Governance: QuaerisAI includes robust security, privacy controls, audit logging, and compliance features— vital for regulated industries.
• No Need to Reinvent Security: Achieving comparable security and compliance from scratch is complex and expensive when self-building
• Data Store & Model Independent: Enterprises will always have data and documents in more than one type of database or data platform and will want to use different LLMs for different use-cases – QuaerisAI is designed for that flexibility – we are totally independent of data platform provider or LLM provider.

Enhanced Collaboration and Adoption

• User-Friendly Interface: Enables rapid adoption across diverse teams—business leaders, analysts, and non-technical users alike.
• Collaboration Tools: Real-time chat, dashboards, and secure sharing accelerate organizational decision-making.

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Advanced Features Out-of-the-Box

• Conversational and Proactive Analytics with Explanations: Natural language queries, contextual analytics, trend detection, collaboration tools, and embedded analytics are fully integrated
• Unified Data Access: Supports seamless connection to multiple data types (structured and unstructured) with unified analytics—saving substantial engineering effort.
• Intelligent Reporting: QuaerisAI’s Intelligent Reporting allows anyone to make smart, pixel perfect reports in a matter of minutes and then update the data with one click for monthly or quarterly reporting. Once the data is updated, users will get GPT generated explanations on charts/graphs and inserted into the reports. These reports can be sent through secure workflow for approvals and then scheduled to be delivered to end-users in an automated manner. This translates into several days’ worth of work done in minutes.

Continuous Innovation and Maintenance

• Updates: QuaerisAI regularly rolls out enhancements, new features, and bug fixes; ensuring clients always benefit from state-of-the-art GenAI capabilities.
• No Support/Maintenance Burden: Internal teams are freed from ongoing security patching, system updates, model updates, monitoring, bug fixes, and tech debt.

Scalability and Reliability

• Proven Platform: Designed to scale to thousands of users and massive data volumes without performance degradation.
• Enterprise Support: Dedicated technical and customer support is included, reducing operational risk.

Risk Reduction and Predictability

• Proven Results: QuaerisAI has a track record of successful enterprise deployments, reducing risks of failed or suboptimal in-house projects.
• Vendor Accountability: Service-level agreements and support ensure business continuity

QuaerisAI is ready to go:

• Deploy in matter of days
• Built for enterprises; secure & private
• Strong admin controls
• Feature rich
• Low TCO

Comparative Summary Table

In summary:
Licensing QuaerisAI provides enterprise-ready GenAI-powered analytics, robust security, predictable costs, and ongoing innovation—all while freeing up your team to focus on core business transformation, not AI development and platform management. This approach accelerates value and minimizes risk compared to building a solution from scratch.