How to choose an AI automation partner.
Choosing an AI partner comes down to four questions: who trains your team, who builds working automations, where the work runs, and who owns the result. This page gives you those questions and an honest comparison of the provider types, so you can pick the right fit for your company.
What are your options?
Most providers give you one piece of the picture. Consultancies deliver advice, and any automation they build runs on infrastructure you don't own or control. Automation firms build, and the work often lives on their infrastructure. AI platforms sell software that your team still has to figure out alone.
We train your team, we build your automations, the work runs on your own systems, and you own all of it. When the engagement ends, everything keeps running on your infrastructure without us.
What should you compare?
Four questions separate the firms in this market more than any feature list. Who trains your team, so the capability stays when the consultants leave? Who builds working automations, past the strategy deck? Where does the work run, on your systems or on theirs? And who owns the result?
Ask every firm you talk to, including us, for their answer to each in writing.
How does pricing transparency differ?
Some firms publish rate cards, and some quote each engagement privately. We publish no prices and quote after a discovery call, because scope varies too much between businesses for a rate card to be honest. Whichever firm you evaluate, ask for their pricing model in writing up front.
Where does Data Jockey fit?
We are the fit when you want your own team trained to fluency, automations built inside the systems you already run, and ownership of everything at the end: the repositories, the workflows, and the dashboards. A thirty-minute discovery call is the fastest way to find out whether that matches your situation.
| Consultancies | Automation firms | AI platforms | Data Jockey | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trains your team | No | No | No | Yes |
| Builds your automations | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Runs on your own systems | No | No | No | Yes |
| You own it | No | Sometimes | No | Yes |
Questions we hear
- Is there a minimum business size you work with?
- We work with businesses of all shapes and sizes.
- What does "you own everything" mean in practice?
- Owning means the automations built as a result of our expertise are yours to keep, be it repositories, workflows, dashboards, and everything in between.
- What happens after the engagement ends?
- After our engagement ends, all of the value we've provided continues running on your infrastructure without us. Your staff has now matriculated to understanding how to run those processes and how to iterate them. This is what differentiates us from traditional firms.
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