Choosing a partner that suits you
Buyer's guides for anyone looking for an AI agency, a web developer or a platform partner, and for anyone weighing up outsourcing, hiring or an AI employee.
Each guide starts with a short answer, then sets out the points to assess a partner on, and ends with the questions for the first meeting.
- AI agency
Choosing an AI agency in the Netherlands: what to look for
Eight ways to assess an AI agency, from the research up front to support after go-live.
Read the guide - AI implementation
Choosing an AI implementation partner for SMEs
What an implementation partner does differently from a consultant, and how to tell whether they will stay until it works.
Read the guide - AI advice
Choosing an AI consultant: what to look for
How to tell whether AI advice can be carried out, and what belongs in an AI strategy for an SME.
Read the guide - AI agents
Choosing a company to build custom AI agents: what to look for
Agent or fixed workflow, and how to handle access, approval, logging and testing.
Read the guide - Information security
Choosing an ISO 27001 certified software company: what to look for
What the certificate does and does not tell you, and how to check the scope and the certification body.
Read the guide - Web development
Choosing a web developer in Amsterdam: what to look for
From a measurable goal and owning your code to a content team that can manage the site themselves.
Read the guide - Next.js
Choosing a Next.js development agency: what to look for
Rendering, hosting, performance and updates: the choices that decide whether your site stays fast.
Read the guide - Shopify Plus
Choosing a Shopify Plus partner in the Netherlands: what to look for
Integrations, migration, theme or headless, and who looks after the store after go-live.
Read the guide - Strapi
Choosing a developer for your Strapi headless CMS: what to look for
When Strapi fits, and how to handle the content model, permissions, hosting and updates.
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For anyone who can't keep up with the work. For each kind of work, the options side by side, what an AI employee takes over and what stays with a person, and honest about when hiring or outsourcing fits better.
- Staff shortage
Staff shortage: how do you cover the work without hiring more people?
Hiring, outsourcing, a virtual assistant or an AI employee: what suits which kind of work.
Read the guide - Accounts receivable
Outsource accounts receivable, hire someone or automate it?
When a collection agency or an extra pair of hands fits, and what an AI employee takes over from the follow-up.
Read the guide - Customer service
Outsource customer service or use an AI helpdesk?
A call centre, your own people or AI: who answers which questions, and what always stays with your team.
Read the guide - Administration
Outsource your bookkeeping or payroll administration?
An accounting firm, a payroll bureau, or keeping it in-house with an AI employee for the gathering work.
Read the guide - Phone and reception
Hire a receptionist, use an answering service or let AI answer?
A telephone answering service, someone at the front desk or an AI that picks up: what each can and can't do.
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How we write these guides
These guides come from Your Tech Club. That's why we stick to what you can check for yourself.
- No rankings and no names of other agencies.
- No figures we can't back up.
- For each guide, the questions for a first meeting, or when hiring or outsourcing fits better.
- How we do it ourselves is set out separately at the end.