BUILD VS BUY SOFTWARE

Quick to build
Owning it takes years

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A vibe-coded strategy app works on day one. Then you need security, audits, upgrades, and engineers to keep it running.

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Trusted by 1,500+ Organizations worldwide

Trusted by 1,500+ organizations worldwide
G2 Fall 2026 awards: Leader Enterprise, Leader, Regional Leader Middle East & Africa, High Performer Enterprise, Easiest Admin Enterprise, Momentum Leader

A real decision

Why a global company replaced its own strategy app

  1. They built it with AI

    Their own team used AI to create a working strategy app quickly, at almost no cost.

  2. 500 people used it

    The app grew to 500 users and became a tool the whole company relied on.

  3. They needed 2 teams

    Two engineers kept it running, but no product team decided what to build next.

  4. They chose Profit.co

    Profit.co brought experience from hundreds of customers and keeps improving.

Nothing failed. The app succeeded, and success made it expensive.

Build vs buy, point by point

Where building wins, and where buying wins

We compared building your own strategy app with buying one, on the 10 points that matter most. Even with AI, building wins on only two.

AI made building faster, not owning cheaper.

Building still makes sense for an experiment or one team. Once hundreds of people rely on it, buying wins.

Why Profit.co

Built by product experts, run by engineers

One connected product for strategy, performance, projects, and engagement, kept secure, certified, and up to date.

Make strategy visible and executable at every level

Align the company around goals that matter, whether you run OKRs, Balanced Scorecard, Hoshin Kanri, or Strategy Roadmaps.

Instead of building: a new app every time your method changes. Profit.co keeps OKRs, Balanced Scorecard, and Hoshin Kanri interchangeable.

OKR management dashboard with check-in trend and contributing key results

Buy the core. Vibe-code the edge.

Profit.co runs what the whole company relies on. Your team can still use AI to build small extras, like a view for one team, on top of it.

AI advantage

AI agents working for your org 24/7

Every module is powered by purpose-built AI. These aren't generic chatbots — each agent is trained for a specific strategy execution task.

Live Agent Activity

Your Org · Right Now
17 active
OKR Authoringjust now

Drafted 3 key results and flagged 1 owner gap

Progress2m ago

3 key results trending to miss this quarter

Project Authoring8m ago

Built 4 milestones and 26 tasks for the Q4 relaunch

Transcription15m ago

Pulled 6 action items and 2 OKR updates from a meeting

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Answer agent

Ask anything about your strategy

Ask about your strategy, OKRs, or projects and get an answer grounded in your data.

Which departments are behind on their strategic priorities?Answered 2m ago

Two of six departments are below 60% progress at the halfway mark. Operations is 48% complete with 2 objectives at risk. Customer Success is 57% complete with 1 objective at risk. Both trace back to the same blocker: delayed vendor onboarding.

Departments behind2 of 6
Objectives at risk3
Shared blockerVendor onboarding
17Specialized AI agents
24/7Continuous monitoring
< 5sAverage insight delivery

Our customers are saying

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Rated 4.7 out of 5 on G2, Capterra and Gartner

Rated 4.7/5 by 500+ Leaders

After implementing Profit.co, our employee participation in goal setting jumped from 60% to 80%, and review cycles became much faster.

Suganya R.

One of the significant benefits we found was reduced time spent on reviews — 75% reduction of time spent in reviews for executives.

Gerardo Haro

Profit.co gave our teams a shared language for strategy — priorities stay visible, and execution finally matches the plan.

Hasna Beeran

We accomplished nearly 90% of our high-level objectives that we set out at the beginning of the year.

Dr. Thomas Troeger

With Profit.co, strategy reviews stopped being slide decks — we see live progress and act on risks in the same week.

Rakshit Choudhary

OKRs in Profit.co helped us connect product delivery to company outcomes — everyone knows what winning looks like.

Prakash Nair

After implementing Profit.co, our employee participation in goal setting jumped from 60% to 80%, and review cycles became much faster.

Suganya R.

One of the significant benefits we found was reduced time spent on reviews — 75% reduction of time spent in reviews for executives.

Gerardo Haro

Profit.co gave our teams a shared language for strategy — priorities stay visible, and execution finally matches the plan.

Hasna Beeran

We accomplished nearly 90% of our high-level objectives that we set out at the beginning of the year.

Dr. Thomas Troeger

With Profit.co, strategy reviews stopped being slide decks — we see live progress and act on risks in the same week.

Rakshit Choudhary

OKRs in Profit.co helped us connect product delivery to company outcomes — everyone knows what winning looks like.

Prakash Nair

We finally have one place where goals, projects, and performance stay aligned — no more chasing updates across tools.

Henry Braithwaite

Profit.co made cross-team priorities transparent — we ship what matters and drop the noise with confidence.

Rahul Daswani

Just in the last year, tracking work in Profit.co made it easy to prove ROI and scale OKRs across the company.

Juan Felipe Arjona

Weekly check-ins in Profit.co keep every squad honest about progress — blockers surface early, not at quarter end.

Ankita Roy

Leaders now have clear, real-time visibility into progress — strategy stopped living in disconnected spreadsheets.

Jose Duvan V.

Profit.co helped us turn annual plans into weekly execution — teams know the score and move with clarity.

Kari Montes

We finally have one place where goals, projects, and performance stay aligned — no more chasing updates across tools.

Henry Braithwaite

Profit.co made cross-team priorities transparent — we ship what matters and drop the noise with confidence.

Rahul Daswani

Just in the last year, tracking work in Profit.co made it easy to prove ROI and scale OKRs across the company.

Juan Felipe Arjona

Weekly check-ins in Profit.co keep every squad honest about progress — blockers surface early, not at quarter end.

Ankita Roy

Leaders now have clear, real-time visibility into progress — strategy stopped living in disconnected spreadsheets.

Jose Duvan V.

Profit.co helped us turn annual plans into weekly execution — teams know the score and move with clarity.

Kari Montes

Integrations ecosystem

Connects to the tools
your teams already use

100+ native integrations that keep your data in sync — so teams check in, update progress, and stay aligned without switching apps.

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