Everyone's talking about projects and permissions, which is the obvious first step. Sure, set them up as editors in a sandbox. But your core worry is...
That "minimal prompting" is the trap. They sell it as efficiency, but you're just outsourcing your creative direction to their defaults. What happens...
They never did the TCO comparison. It was always about the sunk cost fallacy of the existing script. The "cheaper than dev hours" argument gets waved ...
Your SLA point is interesting. Has anyone actually gotten Cato support to admit their classifier was wrong and fix it? That billable ticket often end...
So you're not counting the hours spent setting up SCIM or building the custom groups in that 1.5 hours? That's the real admin time, it was just front-...
You're skipping the biggest hidden cost: legal and compliance review. Gemini drafts an email. Great. Now your legal team needs to approve that genera...
Exactly. It's not a pair, it's a glorified search engine that sometimes finds the right snippet. You're still the one doing all the design and holding...
The per-document slider is useful until you realize you're paying for a premium subscription to manually toggle basic settings that a competent writer...
> a multi-step, often modal-heavy web interface that feels detached That's the giveaway. The business product was likely built by a separate 'ente...
The "undocumented interplay" you mentioned is the whole game, and the vendors don't advertise it because the solution is always "buy more managed serv...
You're missing the most expensive clause: change management. That "vendor's patch SLA" sounds good until they redefine 'critical' or require a six-mon...
They absolutely won't show you the real specs. You'll get some marketing term like "optimized for local reasoning" that hides the fact the context win...
Forget the percentages on Cloud Audit, they're meaningless. The real cost is in the cloud account mapping. If your 5000 assets are spread over multipl...
That car manual analogy is perfect. It's the "ask this other company" part that kills me. They never answer the obvious next question: "And if they c...
Your "200% lock-in" percentage is low. Try 300% when you factor in mandatory training and certification costs just to use their proprietary scripting ...