A lot of startups are trying to add AI right now, but the hard part usually isn’t which model we should use. It’s questions like: Do we need strategy, engineering, or both? Should we hire an AI consultant or build in-house? Can this team ship production software, or only run discovery workshops? Do they understand RAG, agents, vector databases, monitoring, and inference costs? Is an enterprise consulting firm overkill for an MVP-stage startup? I came across a comparison of AI c...