Management cost outgrows build cost
Standups, reviews and reconciliation are real hours. Past a certain vendor count, you pay more to coordinate the work than to do it.
The answer
Managing harder: where that road ends
You can tighten the process — but every turn of the screw adds coordination, and the coordinator is you.
You become the single point of failure
You are the only one holding the whole picture. When you are out, integration stalls — the exact risk you outsourced to avoid.
What GIIP FDE Ops does instead
Instead of policing a patchwork, you brief one AI engineering team that owns planning, build, deployment and operation as a single thread — under enterprise governance, documented end to end. The seams disappear because there is only one team.