How Building Your Own AI Agents Creates the Best ROI
Building your own AI Agents: Reviewing the best strategy to make early gains by developing in-house capability to create AI agents.
A 30-day plan to help UK businesses respond to to use of AI without major external investment!
At your last month's Board meeting, everyone got very excited about how AI can reinvent your business. Some were frothing at the mouth with explanations of where this could make a difference to P&L this year, scale growth, reduce operating costs, reach new international markets with ease, and add value to your Company's stock market value. But where do you start? Who can you trust to make the right investment in AI? The answer is going to surprise you. It's your own people, your own staff, who can rapidly learn the art and science (and coding) to make a fantastic contribution to moving forward in the age of AI, and here's why.
Welcome to our strategic review of the three main ways to create AI Agents with a free ROI calculator, with proof of why investing in getting in-house development of ROI Agents offers far better returns and strategic benefits.
Every service and consultant you meet is selling AI Agents. But beware of glossy markets taking you down an 'easy to buy' online, but that locks you in, slows you down, and charges far too much to grow and maintain.
This chart outlines time, cost, and strategic flexibility, contrasting three common implementation routes: Cloud Online Token Based / Enterprise versus In-House.
- Charged per interaction or word/token, costs can balloon with usage
- It may seem “cheap” to start, even comes with a 28-day trial, but it is designed for you to spend £200+ per month and more for real use.
- Can’t adapt messaging or process logic beyond app limitations and will try to lock you into their own suite of apps.
- Switching away = workflow loss, re-training, or full rebuild with major business disruption.
- Risk that many of these AI Agent companies will not be around in 2 years time.
The AI Security Problem
Security is also always an issue. Many of these companies are Chinese and backed by Chinese government funding. China is infamous for the way it views Copyright and IP. The joke is that they think that copyright simply means the right to copy. AI gives them very powerful hooks into valuable information.
And don't think US enterprise AI services companies are that much different. Amazon was found to be using all its sales data to undercut its own customers, finding the most popular items for sales by then launching 'Amazon Branded' versions!
The only way to guarantee safety is to own and control all aspects of AI by building them yourself, guarded by your own security policies and firewalls.
- Zero ongoing platform fees
- Own your avatar IP
- Can integrate video, custom scripts, and brand-specific messaging
- Includes linguistic & cultural QA
- Local language engagement without hiring new staff
- Once you've been trained ~ 14 hours, you build & deploy within 7 days
- Flexible support, scale up only when you’re ready
Consider carefully the idea of creating your own Agents using purely in-house resources. There are service providers that can help you do this safely. These are the pros & cons:
In-house:
Pros
- Low cost - staff time only.
- Can be customised and evolved.
- ROI within 60-90 days
- Dependent of a key member of staff
- Unless the person chosen has the advanced knowledge required to programme and optimise the marketing and messaging
- Distraction to the core business - decide do you want to shift resources to 'coding'.
- You are in complete control of security as the AI is operated in-house.
Expert Outsourced:
Pros
- Low to medium cost - contract to target 1,000 contacts starts from £1,500
- Readymade modules to activate more advanced functions.
- ROI within 60-90 days, usually backed by case studies
- Service level agreements, quality, and guaranteed delivery dates can be locked in.
- No distraction to business.
- Company security is protected as the service is operated beyond your company firewall.
- It may cost 2-3 times more than in-house
- Need to find a highly trusted partner who will guarantee to protect your IP and data, especially GDPR related information.
- Some service providers lack cultural knowledge - you'll need to ensure they can craft messaging that is in turn with the UK market.
Final Thoughts:
- The decision to transform HR with AI Agents and Avatars is not 'optional', the technology works, is here now and vital to give you the edge in a highly competitive recruitment landscape.
- Prove the value before investing in costly enterprise platforms or committing to token-based services with spiraling fees.
- Select the implementation of in-house custom Agents based on the level of assurance and skills available in-house versus contracting an external service.
- Develop AI Avatars with humanistic, high-production quality to represent the value of your organisation in the best possible light.
With MirrorMe AI, we can transform your business in just 30 days with the use of AI Avatars. Get in touch via the MirrorMe website to book a discovery call on how we can boost your business communications.
