What you'll get
- Agency vs. freelance vs. in-house: when each one is actually right
- The 6 questions that surface a vendor's real engineering culture
- What to put in your contract so you own the code, the IP, and the exit
- A reference scoring sheet for comparing 3 vendors fairly
In production
This playbook is being written now and ships in mid May 2026. The Software Procurement Playbook covers most of the disqualification logic; vendor selection adds a layer of relationship and contract questions on top.
Want a heads-up when this drops? Drop us a line and we will email you the day it goes live.
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