An honest comparison is more useful than a persuasive one
Reveneau is new, so these pages compare how each option works rather than claiming results we have not earned yet. Every fact about another company is labelled: independently verified, their own claim, or not established. Each page also says where the other option is the better choice, because a comparison that never reaches that conclusion is an advertisement.
Compare ways of working
How an AI-native build differs from the other ways of getting software made. These compare a way of working, not a company.
Reveneau vs building it yourself in an AI app builder
Lovable, Bolt, Replit and v0 make the first version almost free. Here is where that stops, what finishing costs, and when to bring in a firm.
Reveneau vs a traditional software development agency
An agency prices people and time. An AI-native build prices a scoped outcome. What that changes about estimates, quality, and who carries the risk.
Reveneau vs offshore and nearshore development
Offshore delivery lowers the cost of an engineer-hour. An AI-native build lowers the hours a build needs. Which wins depends on how stable your scope is.
Reveneau vs hiring your own engineers
Hiring builds capability you keep. A build partner buys a result on a date. Compare time-to-first-line and what happens to the team after launch.
Reveneau vs a freelance marketplace
A marketplace sells access to a person. A firm sells a delivered result. The difference shows in who integrates the work and who is accountable.
Reveneau vs staff augmentation
Staff augmentation adds people under your management. An outcome engagement delivers a result under ours. Which fits depends on your capacity.
Reveneau vs a fractional CTO
A fractional CTO gives you senior technical judgment part-time. A build partner gives you delivery. They are complements more often than alternatives.
How to tell a real AI-native firm from one that added the words
Almost every development firm now claims to be AI-native. Seven questions that separate a reorganised practice from an agency with new autocomplete.
Reveneau vs a product design and development studio
Studios are strongest where the product question is open and craft matters. We are strongest where the specification is known and correctness is proven.
Reveneau vs a large engineering consultancy
Large engineering consultancies win on scale and specialism. A small AI-native team wins on speed per change and on stating its verification method.
When you need a management consultancy instead of us
Some programmes need board-level credibility, multi-country change management, and a firm that will exist in a decade. That is not us. Here is how to tell.
Reveneau vs building it yourself
Sometimes the right answer is that you build it yourself, with no outside help. Here is how to tell, including when hiring anyone is a waste of money.
Compare a named firm
Side by side with a specific company. Every fact is labelled with where it came from, and each page says plainly when they are the better choice.
Reveneau vs Toptal
Toptal matches you with vetted individual talent. Reveneau delivers a scoped build. An honest comparison of two different products, with sources labelled.
Reveneau vs Lovable
Lovable generates working apps from prompts, and you own the code. Where that is the right answer, where its limit is, and what changes beyond it.
Alternatives to
Already considering a particular option? These pages explain what people switch to and why, with us as one of several.
Alternatives to Toptal
People leaving a talent network usually move to one of four things. What each is good at, what each costs in management time, and where we fit.
Alternatives to Lovable
Needing more than an app builder can do leads to one of four next steps, and only one of them is hiring a firm. How to tell which situation you are in.
Tools for choosing
Scorecards, questions, and checklists you can use with any supplier, including ours.
Ten questions that expose a fake AI-native claim
Ten questions to ask any firm claiming to be AI-native, with the answers that should worry you. Use them on us as well.
How to run a bake-off between two development suppliers
Paid trial tasks tell you more than any proposal. How to design one that is fair, cheap, and actually predictive of how a supplier will perform.
A scorecard for choosing an AI development partner
A weighted scorecard for comparing development suppliers on verification, specification, accountability, handover, and fit. Score us with it too.
What to verify before you sign a development contract
The clauses and artefacts to settle before work starts, not after. Handover contents, acceptance tests, IP, and what happens when the estimate is wrong.
What a software build actually costs, beyond the quote
The quote is one line of the cost. Verification, change, handover, maintenance, and your own time are the rest. A model for comparing suppliers honestly.
A software development RFP template that gets honest bids
A fillable RFP structure built around outcomes and named unknowns instead of a fixed spec, so every bidder answers the same question and the bids compare cleanly.