Build your AI team in-house or bring in a specialist pod?

Hiring vs. Outsourcing
Early-stage teams face this constantly. Hiring AI engineers takes 3–6 months. Agencies are slow and billed by the hour. But moving fast matters more than ever.

More teams are experimenting with outcome-based delivery models, fixed scope, fixed timeline, and full IP transfer.

Has anyone here gone that route? What worked, what didn't?