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Why Pointmatic?
Why Pointmatic?
Unlike large firms focused on selling generic tools or catering only to big enterprises, Pointmatic offers a personal, hands-on approach tailored to small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Pointmatic is here to learn about your problems and help you solve them.
What can AI do for my business?
What can AI do for my business?
Most people are familiar with ChatGPT, but a chat tool is not an integrated business solution. Artificial Intelligence includes a broad range of technologies that can automatically...
Categorize, forecast, and summarize
Generate and manage content
Research and answer questions on expert topics
Handle phone calls
More than 85% of executives say AI will drive innovation.
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Pointmatic Services
Pointmatic Services
Planning
Planning
Map your workflows
Assess AI opportunities
Architect systems and solutions
Build prototypes to test what's possible
Integration
Integration
Connect your systems and data to powerful AI tools
Provide expert AI assistants for your staff and customers
Help install and configure software systems
Automation
Automation
Automate analytics and dashboards
Optimize tedious business processes
Automatically mine data for insights
Generate content for social media posts, blogs, and customer communications
Training
Training
Develop a custom curriculum for internal training programs
Educate staff on using AI in their daily work (automating tasks, improving customer service, securely and privately processing information)
Create reference materials (wikis, guides, slide decks)
Should I build my software in-house?
Should I build my software in-house?
Building software is a highly technical discipline, and if you're integrating AI, that adds more complexity. If you are developing in-house, Pointmatic can help you fill gaps in your organization: system architecture, prototyping, AI-enabled software, quality assurance, production deployment, security, and privacy.
While some businesses consider building their own software or using no-code AI tools, the field is evolving so rapidly that it’s tough to keep up. Pointmatic stays on the cutting edge, so you don’t have to—making us the ideal partner to guide your AI transformation with speed, adaptability, and trust.
If you are not a software company, it boils down to whether you would rather learn to become a software company or instead focus on your core business problems.
In-House Software Development Costs
In-House Software Development Costs
To make software that works, you typically need staff with experience in product management, business analysis, system architecture, UI/UX design, software engineering, database engineering, security, and privacy regulation. And if you plan to incorporate AI, you'll also need specialists with experience in machine learning (ML) algorithms, data science, data engineering, and other AI technologies. A bigger team means you can build and fix more software, but it also increases the risks with people management and communication bottlenecks.
* In-house cost estimations below are for the Portland, Oregon, USA market.
Solo Engineer
Solo Engineer
Affordable but risky
Affordable but risky
It is possible to build software by hiring a solo engineer. Translating business requirements into technical requirements is hard. A lot of software has been reworked multiple times just because of mismatched requirements. Training and retaining a single software engineer is also difficult.
Total cost (with taxes and benefits) $135K to $200K
Small Team
Small Team
Covers basics but costly
Covers basics but costly
There are a number of small businesses that have their own in-house software engineering team. To do this minimally, you'll need four to five people: a product manager/analyst, two full-stack software engineers, and a QA/devops/cloud engineer. If you're also integrating AI, you'll need an AI/ML engineer.
Total cost (with taxes and benefits) $700K to $860K
Moderate Team
Moderate Team
Expensive for most SMBs
Expensive for most SMBs
There aren’t many small-to-midsize businesses have eight to eleven software staff. That's an engineering manager, product manager, four software engineers (frontend/backend), a devops engineer/SRE, and a QA/test automation engineer. For AI, you'll also need two ML/AI engineers and a data engineer.
Total cost (with taxes and benefits) $1.4M to $2.0M
Complete Team
Complete Team
You’re a software company
You’re a software company
A complete software team that can support multiple products has 19–25 people. You'll need a director of engineering, two product managers, an analyst, a UI/UX designer, two tech leads, eight software engineers (frontend/backend), and four DevOps/SRE/QA staff. For AI, you'll need another six staff.
Total cost (with taxes and benefits) $3.3M to $4.5M
That’s why Pointmatic exists — to give you enterprise-grade expertise without the overhead.
That’s why Pointmatic exists — to give you enterprise-grade expertise without the overhead.
Pointmatic Process
Pointmatic Process
Phase 1. Pilot Project
Phase 1. Pilot Project
What is the problem?
What is the simplest way to solve it?
How quickly can we test ideas?
Phase 2. Production
Phase 2. Production
What is the minimum viable product?
What are the feature priorities?
Which features (or feature bundles) can we release separately?
What are the security and privacy concerns?
Phase 3. Operation
Phase 3. Operation
What are the uptime expectations?
Who gets contacted for bugs? Outages?
What are the success metrics (session count, conversion, time spent)?
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