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Basware CEO Jason Kurtz on when to build AI and when to buy: develop what sets your business apart, and use specialist software for standard work.
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Most companies aren’t spending too little on AI. They’re spending it in the wrong places. Basware CEO Jason Kurtz cites an automaker that spent 18 months building a custom expense-reporting system that a specialist product could have delivered in about 12 weeks, at one-tenth the cost. His rule: develop AI where it shapes what customers buy, and deploy specialist software for the work every company does. With capable models widely available, the advantage lies in process data and in knowing how that process fails, not in owning more code.

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Anyone can now build, copy or replace software. What's left is well-structured data, complex solutions and, above all, relationships with people.
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Anyone can now build, copy or replace software, so code no longer protects the company that sells it. Generic AI apps are a gold rush where only the tool sellers win. What can't be copied is a company's well-structured data, the complex integrations built on it and the relationships of trust that give access to it.

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A completed CRM task doesn't prove a buyer received a response. Learn how to measure lead response SLAs using verifiable communication events.
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CRM dashboards can report successful lead responses even when no meaningful communication has reached the buyer. The author proposes a five-stage Response Evidence Ladder distinguishing tasks, logged activities, contact attempts, delivery signals, and buyer replies. The article explains how to build more reliable response tracking using inquiry-linked events, appropriate SLA closing criteria, synthetic tests, and monitoring for misleading CRM activity.