Build or buy: what your own assistant costs.
An assistant that does tasks needs a tool for each action, the approval and result screens, and upkeep each time your app changes. The numbers below are only starting points, not data from us. Change them to yours; the math is shown under the result.
To build–
Upkeep, first year–
First year–
What Skate replaces
No tool per action: Skate plans each step from the screen. Approvals, the page check, the session log and the off switch are built in. Install is one script tag. Sign up free with 500 task credits for your site, and compare against your own number above.
When building is right
- The assistant is core to your product and you have engineers free for it.
- Your actions already have clean APIs, and few of them change.
- You need full control of the model and the data path.