Beyond Build vs Buy: What Teams Are Really Looking For
When we talk to technical leaders in insurance—Heads of IT, Data Architects, Delivery Managers—the frustration with the build vs buy debate runs deep.
“Building in-house means I lose my best engineers to maintenance.”
“The legacy platforms we’ve evaluated are stuck in pre-cloud architecture.”
“I need something that integrates with our ecosystem, not something that tries to replace it.”
These aren’t complaints about features or pricing. They’re about fundamental architecture decisions that determine whether a platform enables your technical strategy or constrains it.
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What We Hear About Building In-House
Technical leaders understand the appeal of custom development better than anyone. Full control over the stack. No compromises on architecture. Built exactly for your requirements.
But they also see the true cost.
- A 24-48 month build means technology decisions made today become legacy before launch.
- Every integration is custom—no leverage from how others have solved similar problems.
- And the ongoing maintenance burden pulls your strongest engineers away from innovation.
“My team wanted to build,” one Head of Delivery told us. “Eighteen months in, they were begging me to find an alternative.”
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What We Hear About Legacy Platforms
The buy option should solve these problems. Let someone else handle the infrastructure while your team focuses on higher-value work.
But technical teams tell us legacy platforms create different constraints. Integration architectures designed in the pre-cloud era. APIs that feel like afterthoughts. Data flows that go one direction—in—with extraction requiring custom work or vendor services.
“I evaluated three major platforms,” a Data Architect shared. “None of them could give me a straight answer on how I’d get data back out.”
The worst part: annual release cycles that mean waiting 12 months for a feature your team could build in a sprint. Your roadmap runs at the vendor’s pace, not yours.
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What Technical Teams Are Actually Asking For
The requirements we hear are consistent:
- Integration-first architecture. Not bolted-on APIs—genuine cloud-native design where integration is a core capability, not a feature. The platform should fit into your ecosystem, not demand that everything routes through it.
- Bidirectional data flow. Data moves in, transforms, and exports wherever it’s needed. Your data warehouse, your analytics tools, your downstream systems. No extraction projects, no data hostage situations.
- Continuous deployment. Features ship weekly, not annually. When the market or your business needs something, it shouldn’t require a vendor negotiation and a 12-month wait.
- AI-ready infrastructure. Machine learning and advanced analytics shouldn’t require rebuilding your data layer. The architecture should support these capabilities natively.
- No permanent IT allocation. Your engineers should work on strategic initiatives, not bordereaux system maintenance.
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How We’ve Responded
Verodat was built by a technical team that understood these requirements because we’d lived them ourselves.
We’re a modern bordereaux and data management platform with cloud-native, integration-first architecture. Microservices design means we deploy continuously—52x more frequently than legacy platforms with their annual release cycles. Bidirectional data flow is a core design principle, not a roadmap item. And our warehouse separation model means your data never rests with us—it stays in infrastructure you control.
Production-ready in weeks, not years. 94% faster than custom development timelines.
If you’re evaluating options and the build vs buy choice feels like picking between two kinds of compromise, we’d welcome a technical conversation.
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