11Guides
Straight answers, not thought leadership.
Straight answers on AI automation: what it costs, how to evaluate a partner, where the guardrails go, and when to build rather than buy. Each one answers a single question in the first paragraph, then shows the work. No gate, no form.
01Assurance
4 guidesHow long should an AI automation build actually take?
What competitors publish for AI automation timelines, six weeks to five months depending on scope, what a longer-than-quoted build signals, and why SimplyCubed's Sprint is fixed at two to five weeks.
Read the guide →You got a quote from an AI automation agency. How do you know it’s not a mistake?
A post-quote evaluation checklist: what a quote commits the vendor to, who carries the overrun, what you own at handover, and how rare a written guarantee actually is.
Read the guide →How do you know an AI automation was built to last, not just to demo?
A post-delivery quality checklist: error handling, credential hygiene, documentation, and modularity, the four signals separating a maintainable build from one only the builder can safely touch.
Read the guide →What does an AI automation project actually cost?
What drives the price of an AI automation build, why almost nobody in the category publishes theirs, and what SimplyCubed charges: $1,500 for an Audit, $10K–$20K for a Sprint.
Read the guide →02Guardrails
2 guidesHow do you stop an approval gate from becoming a rubber stamp?
Why a human-in-the-loop approval gate decays into rubber-stamping over time, the automation-bias mechanism behind it, and how to design the gate so it keeps doing its job.
Read the guide →Is it safe to give an AI agent access to your CRM?
What least-privilege access actually means once an agent is reading and writing customer data, the common scope-creep failure, and the specific permissions to check before you grant access.
Read the guide →05Build vs. buy
2 guidesWhen does it make sense to migrate off Zapier or Make?
When a rising Zapier or Make bill means it's time to migrate, what that migration actually involves, and when fixing the expensive workflows costs less than replacing the platform.
Read the guide →Zapier, Make, or n8n, or a custom build?
When a no-code automation stack is the right answer, when it stops being enough, and what a custom build actually buys you that Zapier, Make, and n8n don’t.
Read the guide →→Next step
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