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In this guide, we’ll walk through the characteristics of each AI adoption tier, explore real-world examples, and help you determine which stage best suits your business goals today.

Confused about artificial intelligence? Discover how leveraging AI in your business can help you obtain tangible benefits.

A step-by-step guide to creating successful software products—with goals, activities, a budget, and the people you should connect with during each phase.

How AI-first software product development firms deliver greater value at speed.

At the end of the day, how your software development partner engages in the work is just as important, maybe more, than what they deliver. They should work to improve your business, not just deliver a great product.

Finding the "right" custom software development firm for your project is a tough job. How do you find a firm that has everything you need?

Large language models change fast and are increasingly interchangeable. Your durable advantage doesn’t come from picking the perfect model—it comes from how you engineer around it. The real edge lies in strong software practices, the way you augment and govern models with your data, and choosing a pragmatic deployment model.

If you’ve never worked through contracting for custom software development services, it can be challenging. Your existing software development contract templates may be rooted in business relationships focused on purchasing tangible goods or pre-existing software. Custom software development contracts have unique considerations and require a slight shift in mindset.

We work with many first-time custom software buyers. Here are a few of the common misconceptions they have about building custom software.

Software is never done—there are always more features and functions you could add. So how much should you budget for a custom software project? Some companies keep throwing money at the project without any budget at all. But they can miss out on early client feedback and end up wasting money on the wrong things.

Traditional pricing strategies, like “Fixed Prices” and “Time and Materials”, bring risk to the client and the software product. Atomic uses a Fixed-Budget, Scope-Controlled approach that offers the best of both worlds.

Why is estimation so hard and so disliked by technical staff?

In a perfect world, every interface would have an easy-to-use workflow and a carefully crafted information architecture. If only reality were so kind.

You've made a big investment in creating a custom software package, and you want it to last for years to come. That means software project maintenance.

To avoid the unpredictable costs of updating mothballed software, you need a great maintenance team — even if it's only one or two people.