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1. andy_p+b8[view] [source] 2025-12-15 00:50:47
>>jnord+(OP)
I’m currently working on an in house ERP and inventory system for a specific kind of business. With very few people you can now instead of paying loads of money for some off the shelf solution to your software needs get something completely bespoke to your business. I think AI enables the age of boutique software that works fantastically for businesses, agencies will need to dramatically reduce their price to compete with in house teams.

I’m pretty certain AI quadruples my output at least and facilitates fixing, improving and upgrading poor quality inherited software much better than in the past. Why pay for SaaS when you can build something “good enough” in a week or two? You also get exactly what you want rather than some £300k per year CRM that will double or treble in price and never quite be what you wanted.

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2. thisis+KA[view] [source] 2025-12-15 05:18:12
>>andy_p+b8
I work with both enterprise software and in house teams. Each path has its pro and cons. As you put it costly CRM might not be fulfilling its purpose. And the two biggest points in favour of in house are cost and bespoke nature of solution.

Building is only one part. Maintaining and using/running is another.

Onboarding for both technical and functional teams takes longer as the ERP is different from other company. Feature creep is an issue. After all who can say no to more bespoke features. Maybe roll CRM, Reporting and Analytics into one. Maintenance costs and priorities now become more important.

We have also explored AI agents in this area. People specific tasks are great use cases. Create mock up and wireframes? AI can do well and you still have human in the loop. Enterprise level tasks like say book closing for late company ERP? AI makes lot of mistakes.

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