Build vs Buy vs Low-Code: Essential Guide to Avoid Risk
Most businesses settle build vs buy in a budget meeting, months before anyone has written down what the software is for — and then live with the consequences for five to seven years. This guide replaces that with a method: precise definitions of building, buying and low-code, the four ways the decision is routinely got wrong, a five-test framework covering differentiation, volatility, data boundaries, ownership and reversibility, a five-year total cost model that treats maintenance and exit costs as real lines, an honest account of where low-code genuinely wins and where it quietly fails, and a two-week assessment you can run with three people in the room.
