Custom builds promise perfect fit—then consume years of developer time and millions in hidden costs. Kinetic delivers faster, evolves easier, and costs less than maintaining what you'd build yourself.
Kinetic Vs Custom Builds
What Is a Custom Build?
A custom build is an automation solution your organization codes and maintains entirely in-house. You design the architecture, write the integrations, and control every feature, interface, and deployment. It offers complete freedom—no vendor constraints, no licensing fees, and total ownership of your stack.
But that freedom comes with weight. Every update, security patch, and API change becomes your responsibility. Frameworks age, developers move on, and maintenance time compounds. What starts as empowerment often turns into a backlog of upkeep and technical debt that slows innovation instead of fueling it.
Custom Builds Reimagined
Kinetic gives you the control of a custom build without the drag of constant maintenance. You still design experiences your way, but you build on an orchestration framework that handles the heavy lifting—security, integrations, and scalability—out of the box.
That means your team can focus on logic and outcomes, not plumbing. The result is custom freedom with platform stability: faster launches, easier iterations, and automation that keeps pace with your business instead of breaking under it.
Kinetic vs Custom Builds
How does the Kinetic platform stack up against custom-built solutions?
Time to First Value
Custom Builds:
6-18 months to production-ready solution
With Kinetic:
30-60 days to first live workflow with proven patterns
Total Cost of Ownership
Custom Builds:
Developer salaries + infrastructure + maintenance + technical debt
With Kinetic:
Predictable consumption pricing, no maintenance overhead
Maintenance Burden
Custom Builds:
Your team owns all updates, security patches, and framework upgrades
With Kinetic:
Platform updates automatically; focus on business logic, not infrastructure
Scalability
Custom Builds:
Requires architectural redesign and refactoring as needs grow
With Kinetic:
Composable architecture designed for enterprise scale from day one
Competition
Who else is in the Custom Build category?
How Kinetic compares: We don't compete with your engineering team's talent. We compete with the opportunity cost of building infrastructure instead of business value. Kinetic gives you 80% of what you'd build custom, out-of-the-box, so your developers can focus on the 20% that's truly unique to your organization—not rebuilding portals, form builders, and integration frameworks that already exist.
In-House Development Teams
Maximum control and customization, but highest TCO and longest time-to-value.
Freelance/Contract Developers
Flexible capacity, but creates knowledge silos and long-term maintenance challenges.
System Integrators
Enterprise-scale expertise, but expensive and often deliver proprietary solutions that lock you in.
Stop rebuilding what already exists. Start building what makes you different.
