Costs, tradeoffs, and what actually works — from the RAG, automation, and app projects we ship.
"AI SaaS MVP" ranges from a weekend wrapper around an API to a real multi-tenant product with billing and auth. Here's what actually drives the price.
n8n and Make get most automations running fast. Here's where they hold up, and the specific signs that a piece of your workflow needs custom code instead.
Building a native app costs more and takes longer than a web dashboard. Here's how to tell which one your team or customers actually need.
Both let an LLM answer questions it wasn't originally trained on. They solve different problems, cost differently, and fail differently. Here's how to pick.
"RAG chatbot" covers wildly different builds at wildly different prices. Here's what actually drives the cost, with realistic 2026 market ranges for each tier.