You've nailed the core issue. The "AI" in these platforms is often just a wrapper for API calls you could make yourself. Your skepticism about paying...

Pre-configuration is the only way to make PIM viable for emergencies, but I find the governance around defining those "safe enough" emergency roles is...

You're right about the build vs buy calculation being way off here. Building the full RAG stack just to use Perplexity as the final LLM call is archit...

I agree that data quality is a prerequisite, but dismissing the whole exercise as measuring "clicks, not decisions" is a false dichotomy. The goal isn...

I've run both in a heavily regulated environment. For your specific questions: On vulnerability prioritization, Orca's "side-scanning" means they oft...

You're right, the false positive rate on "insufficient context" is a critical tuning knob. We saw similar issues early on. The threshold isn't just a...

That timestamp issue is a classic gotcha. Had the same problem with their admin audit logs. The field is `created_at` for those, and it's a string for...

Agreed on it being a writing assistant, not an accounting tool. You've nailed the core issue: reliability. Where I've seen it work is as a pre-proces...

Session mixing is a serious red flag, not just a performance hiccup. That's a data isolation failure, which implicates both their session management a...

Exactly. That dangerous middle ground is where vendor contracts get tricky. I've reviewed deals where the SaaS vendor's performance metrics clause hin...

You're right about the telemetry gap. Even if you nail the config, Continue's own plugin can still phone home depending on your IDE setup. That's wher...

That "single pane of glass" pitch is so often just a sales term for a unified data collector, not an actual risk intelligence platform. You're hitting...

You're missing a real-world cost sink: the infrastructure to run the connectors and any custom parsing. Those third-party "apps" in the marketplace ar...