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Build vs buy
What building an agent runtime in house actually involves.
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- How to add an AI agent to a mobile app: the complete guideWhat an in-app agent is made of, what each of its five pieces costs to own, and the honest path from a first spoken turn to something you can hand to users.Business12 min
- Agent runtimes for mobile apps: an honest comparison (2026)OpenAI Realtime, LiveKit, ElevenLabs, Vapi and Retell compared on what a mobile team actually chooses between: layer coverage, client SDKs and the write path.Business8 min
- The business case for an in-app agent, and its missing numberHow to build an ROI model for an in-app agent when the one input that decides the answer has no public benchmark, and which of the levers you can honestly measure.Business8 min
- Build vs buy: what an in-app agent really costs to ownWiring a speech API to a model takes an afternoon. The nine workstreams that turn it into something you can hand to a user do not have an end date.Business10 min