Marketing AI: Build vs. License 2025 Report

Build Your AI Moat: 2025’s Guide to Smart Marketing AI Decisions

Learn how to blend build and license strategies with a six-lens framework and financial model that protects your marketing AI advantage.

Executive Summary

Generative AI has fundamentally shifted the build vs. license decision for marketing teams, making proprietary data and institutional know-how the new competitive moat. This 2025 report presents six decision lenses and a modern financial model to help you blend SaaS licensing for rapid validation with targeted in-house builds for true differentiation and compliance.

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Generative AI has commoditized software. Today, your real edge lives in exclusive data and institutional know-how. Marketing teams must rethink the build vs. license debate.

Your “private tokens”—playbooks, heuristics, cultural shorthand and institutional memory—shape performance in ways public SaaS can’t replicate. Protect and leverage them as your strategic asset.

This report distills the decision into six critical lenses—speed, cost, control, compliance, differentiation and ROI—backed by a modern financial model. Each lens offers concrete metrics and scenarios to guide your choice.

Adopt a hybrid approach: license SaaS for undifferentiated needs and rapid validation, then build custom solutions where you win on data or compliance. Strike the balance that fuels growth without sacrificing control.

Download the Marketing AI: Build vs. License 2025 Report now and secure your AI advantage.