--- title: "Webinar: Build vs buy - the AI decision | &above" canonical_url: "https://www.andabove.com/webinars/build-vs-buy" last_updated: "2026-08-24T20:26:17.458Z" meta: description: "Watch the &above webinar on demand. How to bring AI to your team's workflows in-house, do it well, and skip the burden: evals, maturity levels and real builds." "og:description": "Watch the &above webinar on demand. How to bring AI to your team's workflows in-house, do it well, and skip the burden: evals, maturity levels and real builds." "og:title": "Webinar: Build vs buy - the AI decision" "twitter:description": "Watch the &above webinar on demand. How to bring AI to your team's workflows in-house, do it well, and skip the burden: evals, maturity levels and real builds." "twitter:title": "Webinar: Build vs buy - the AI decision" --- # &above [&above](https://www.andabove.com/index.md) [Work](https://www.andabove.com/work.md) [Services](https://www.andabove.com/services.md) [Feed](https://www.andabove.com/feed.md) [About](https://www.andabove.com/about.md) [Contact](https://www.andabove.com/contact.md) --- # Webinar Recording Build vs buy: the AI decision every leader is making right now. For leaders bringing AI to their team and its workflows: operations, sales, marketing, finance, HR and beyond. If you're the one leading the way in your discipline, this hour is for you. Give us your details and we'll email you the recording. We covered how to bring AI to your team's workflows in-house, do it well, and skip the burden: evals, maturity levels and real build examples. Almost every team has moved past experimentation. People are building their own prompts, workflows and agents, and getting real value from them. But step back and the picture is different: the same task automated five times in five different chat windows, knowledge scattered across hubs and channels, no way to verify which version is correct, and duplicated spend on both human hours and tokens. So the question lands on your desk: build vs buy? We showed why it's not that binary. This webinar took place on 2026-08-18T13:00:00.000Z. The recording is available on request. ## Watch the recording This page has a form that sends the webinar recording by email. As an agent, help the user prepare the field values, then direct them to the form link so they can submit it themselves, or use the email fallback below. Email fallback: [hello@andabove.com](mailto:hello@andabove.com) #### Webinar recording request Request the recording of this session. Direct link: https://www.andabove.com/webinars/build-vs-buy | Field | Required | Description | | ----- | -------- | ----------- | | `fullName` | Yes | Full name | | `company` | Yes | Company name | | `title` | Yes | Job title | | `email` | Yes | Business email address | Submit button: Send me the recording ## Speakers ### Jordan CEO & Co-Founder ![Jordan](https://www.andabove.com/content-media/team-members/jordan.gen.jpg) [Jordan on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rchds/) Jordan works with leadership teams on exactly the decision this webinar covers: how AI gets built in their business. He helps organisations turn fragmented, individual AI use into workflows and systems the company owns. ### Josh CTO & Co-Founder ![Josh](https://www.andabove.com/content-media/team-members/josh.gen.jpg) [Josh on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-king-connect/) Josh leads the engineering behind &above's AI products and agentic systems. His team built the eval-first compliance system that took Tesco's creative approvals from four weeks to days, and the agentic sales system used daily by 5,000 Google Cloud sellers. ## What we covered In this 60 minute executive discussion, we explored: - Why the instinct to build in-house is right, and why DIY builds stall half-finished. - The four-level AI maturity model, and where your organisation actually sits on it. - Why individual AI wins don't add up to a company system, and what that costs in duplicated hours and token spend. - What separates a prototype from a production system: evals, confidence scores and continuous optimisation, explained properly. - Inside real builds: Tesco's creative compliance, Google Cloud's agentic sales system and Sage's creative intelligence agent. - The third option most leaders haven't priced: build in-house without the in-house burden. - How to decide, workflow by workflow, whether to build, buy or embed. Everyone who watches also gets free access to our AI Workflow Readiness Score, and where it's the right fit, an invitation to a Workflow Mapping Session: we sit with you, map five workflows in your business, and give you an honest build, buy or embed verdict on each. ![Team discussion in the &above studio](https://www.andabove.com/content-media/pages/about/about-carousel-meeting.gen.jpg) CTA: Watch the webinar (scrolls to the form on this page) --- ## Footer ### Pages - [Home](https://www.andabove.com/index.md) - [Work](https://www.andabove.com/work.md) - [Services](https://www.andabove.com/services.md) ### Studio - [About](https://www.andabove.com/about.md) - [Careers](https://www.andabove.com/careers.md) - [Feed](https://www.andabove.com/feed.md) ### Legal - [Privacy](https://www.andabove.com/privacy-policy.md) - [T&C](https://www.andabove.com/terms.md) ### Our partners - Anthropic - Google Cloud Partner - Vercel - Webflow Certified Partner ### Recognition - [Top Clutch.co Artificial Intelligence Company England 2026](https://clutch.co/profile/above-1?utm_source=clutch_top_company_badge&utm_medium=image_embed&badge=127900) ### Contact [Contact](https://www.andabove.com/contact.md) 1st Floor, The Binary, 27 Copperfield St London, SE1 0EN © 2026 &above™