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Us, and the other routes you are weighing.
You have options, and most of them are reasonable for some situations. Here is an honest read on where each one works, where it tends to hurt, and what we do differently. Where a different route is the better call, we say so.
Techsity or an AI app builder?
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Where it works
Getting a working screen in front of someone this afternoon. For prototypes and internal experiments they are genuinely good, and we use the same class of tooling ourselves.
Where it hurts
Nobody reviews what comes out. Escape scanned 5,600 live applications built this way and found more than 2,000 high impact vulnerabilities, over 400 exposed secrets, and 175 cases of leaked personal data including medical records and bank details. The code also has no owner, so the first serious bug becomes an archaeology project.
What we do instead
We use AI tooling for speed and then an engineer who will be on call reviews every line, with access control and data separation designed before the first screen exists.
Go with them instead when: You are testing an idea, nothing real is at stake, and no customer data goes near it.
Techsity or an offshore dev shop?
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Where it works
The lowest hourly rate on the market, and real capacity when you need a lot of hands at once.
Where it hurts
The rate is not the cost. You are usually buying capacity rather than judgement, the senior person who won the work is rarely the person writing the code, and maintenance after launch typically adds another 15 to 25 percent of the build cost every year if nobody wrote anything down.
What we do instead
One small senior team, no bench, no substitutions after the contract is signed. The engagement ends with documentation and a team of yours that can run the thing.
Go with them instead when: The specification is genuinely finished, the work is well understood, and volume matters more than judgement.
Techsity or a large consultancy?
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Where it works
Procurement paperwork, enterprise governance, and putting sixty people on a programme across several countries.
Where it hurts
Enterprise firms bill upward of 400 dollars an hour and the people in the pitch are not the people who build. Layers of account management sit between you and whoever is actually writing code, so decisions take weeks that should take an afternoon.
What we do instead
You talk to the engineers directly. Decisions happen in the same conversation, and the person answering your question is the one who will have to live with the answer.
Go with them instead when: You need a vendor your board already recognises, or the programme is large enough to need dedicated governance.
Techsity or a freelancer?
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Where it works
Cost, speed on a contained piece of work, and a direct relationship with the person doing it.
Where it hurts
One person means no code review, and code review is where most security problems are caught. It also means a single point of failure. When they take a holiday, take a job, or simply stop replying, the knowledge leaves with them.
What we do instead
More than one person understands your system, every change is reviewed by someone else, and the documentation is part of the deliverable rather than a favour.
Go with them instead when: The job is small, well defined, and you already have someone in house who can review their work.
Techsity or hiring in-house?
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Where it works
Everything, eventually. A permanent team is the right answer for software you intend to run for years.
Where it hurts
Hiring senior engineers takes months, and there is a chicken and egg problem: you need someone senior already in the building to judge whether the next hire is any good. Meanwhile the product is not being built.
What we do instead
We build the first version properly and hand it over, so your first hires inherit a documented codebase rather than a mystery. Several of our engagements end with us helping interview the team that takes over.
Go with them instead when: You already have a strong technical lead and the runway to wait for the right people.
The number worth knowing
2,000 vulnerabilities across 5,600 live apps.
Escape scanned 5,600 live applications built on AI app builders and found more than 2,000 high impact vulnerabilities, over 400 exposed secrets, and 175 cases of exposed personal data.
Speed is not the problem. Shipping speed without review is. That is the entire difference between the fast route and this one.
Escape research, October 2025Not sure which of these you need?
Describe the problem and we will tell you honestly which route fits, including the ones that are not us. We would rather send you somewhere better than take work we cannot do well.