The KORIX Philosophy
BYOS™

Bring Your Own
Software.

Every other AI agency wants to sell you a new platform. We do the opposite. We make the software you already own intelligent — Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft 365, SAP, your custom stack. No new tools. No seat licenses. No lock-in. Ever.

From Day 22, your team runs it independently. No dependency. No renewal fees. No “what if KORIX goes away” risk. You own the code, the models, the policies. Forever.

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BYOS™ — How it works
Your AI Agent
Custom-built · Governed · Fully owned
Live · Running inside your stack
HubSpotHubSpot
SAPSAP
SlackSlack
NotionNotion
ShopifyShopify
StripeStripe
+ Salesforce, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, SAP, NetSuite, ServiceNow & your custom stack
What is BYOS?

BYOS (Bring Your Own Software) is an AI implementation philosophy where custom AI agents are built inside the client's existing software stack — instead of requiring a new AI platform.

Coined and practised by KORIX, BYOS engagements ship production AI into Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft 365, SAP, Google Workspace, or any custom system with a modern API. Every engagement ends with the client owning the source code, trained models, and documentation — zero vendor lock-in, zero recurring license fees.

01

You already have too many tools.

The real reason enterprise AI projects fail

Your team is drowning in software. Salesforce for sales. HubSpot for marketing. Microsoft 365 for everything else. A CRM nobody likes. A data warehouse nobody trusts. And now some consultant wants you to buy *another* platform — this one powered by AI — to fix the problems the last three platforms promised to fix.

Every enterprise AI pilot that dies in year one dies for the same three reasons. The platform was hard to adopt. The data migration broke something. Or the vendor held the team hostage when the renewal came due. The technology was never the problem. The delivery model was.

  • Training 200 people on a new platform costs more than the platform itself
  • Migrating customer data into a vendor's system creates compliance risk you cannot undo
  • When the renewal arrives, the vendor knows you cannot leave — so the price doubles
  • When the consultancy walks away, their "AI transformation" stops working in 90 days
Typical Enterprise AI Pilot
Month 1–2 · Platform rollout
Training, onboarding, data migration
Month 3–4 · Change management
Team resistance, workflow disruption
Month 5–6 · Integration debt
Custom work, vendor dependency
Month 12 · Quiet failure
Renewal negotiation, project shelved
74% of enterprise AI pilots never reach production. Source: Gartner 2024.
02

There is a different way.

BYOS™ — Bring Your Own Software

What if the AI came to the software, instead of the software coming to the AI?

BYOS is a simple idea with a powerful consequence: we build custom AI agents inside the software your team already uses every day. Your sales team still works in Salesforce. Your operations team still works in Microsoft 365. Your finance team still works in SAP. But now each of those systems has an intelligent layer that does the work your team used to do by hand.

No one has to learn a new platform. No data ever leaves your system of record. Nothing gets re-licensed every year. And when we step away, the AI keeps working — because it belongs to you, not to us.

Adoption time
3–6 months
Day 0
Vendor lock-in
5–10 years
Zero
Time to production
12–18 months
21 days
  • Your team already knows the software — zero adoption cost
  • Your data stays where it lives — compliance preserved
  • One fixed fee, not a subscription — zero vendor lock-in
  • Shipped in 21 days via the AI Pilot programme
See the 21-day delivery model →
BYOS™ Delivery Model
Days 1–3 · Discovery
We map your existing stack · pick the pain
↓
Days 4–18 · Build inside your stack
Nothing new to install · Daily progress visible
↓
Days 19–21 · Handover
Your team operates it · We step back
✓
↓
Day 22 · You own everything
Zero dependency · Zero renewal fees · Forever
Two philosophies

Every AI consultancy works one of these two ways.
Only one leaves you in control.

When you hire a traditional consultancy, they sell you a platform. When you hire KORIX, we make your existing platforms smarter. Here is the full picture.

The old way

Platform-First Consulting

"Here is our AI platform. Your team will learn it."

  • You buy a new platform on top of existing tools
  • Change management, training, months of rollout
  • Data migrates to their system — compliance risk
  • Ongoing seat licenses, monthly subscriptions
  • When you stop paying, the AI stops working
  • Vendor lock-in by design
  • Your team becomes dependent on the consultancy
The KORIX way

BYOS™ — Bring Your Own Software

"We make the software you already own intelligent."

  • AI is built inside your existing stack
  • Zero adoption cost — your team already knows the tool
  • Data stays where it lives — compliance preserved
  • One fixed fee. No seat licenses. No subscriptions.
  • When we leave, the AI keeps running. Forever.
  • Full source code, models, docs — you own everything
  • Your team operates it without us. Zero dependency.
The stack we make smarter

Built into the software
you already run.

Whatever your team uses every day — that is where the AI goes. Custom, legacy, SaaS, or some mix of all three.

Where most KORIX clients fit

Your custom stack. Your legacy systems. Whatever you have built.

Most of our clients do not run one off-the-shelf tool — they run a unique combination of SaaS, in-house builds, and decades-old systems that somehow still keep the business running. That is exactly where BYOS™ thrives.

We have integrated with custom CRMs written in 2004, internal ERPs on Oracle Forms, proprietary trading platforms, legacy warehouse management systems, and more. If it has a modern API — or even just a database — we can make it intelligent. Bring us whatever you have; we will assess it honestly in Discovery.

Also works out of the box with
HubSpotHubSpot
SAPSAP
SlackSlack
NotionNotion
ConfluenceConfluence
JiraJira
AirtableAirtable
ZendeskZendesk
IntercomIntercom
ShopifyShopify
StripeStripe
QuickBooksQuickBooks
XeroXero
AtlassianAtlassian
AsanaAsana

We also build AI agents inside Salesforce, Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel), Google Workspace, Oracle NetSuite, and ServiceNow.

Why it works

Four reasons BYOS™ beats
platform-first consulting.

This is not philosophy for its own sake. It is practical engineering grounded in what happens when enterprises try to adopt AI.

Zero adoption cost

Your team already knows the software. We just make it smarter. No training, no change management, no rollout battles.

Data stays put

We do not move your data to a new platform. It stays in your systems of record, under your compliance controls, governed by your policies.

No vendor lock-in

No recurring licenses. No renewal negotiations. You pay once, you own the code, the models, the documentation. Forever.

Faster time to value

Because we skip the platform adoption phase, BYOS engagements ship in 14–21 days. Not 6 months. Not 6 quarters.

The founder's take

Why KORIX exists
in the first place.

Shishir Mishra, Founder of KORIX

"Every AI consultancy I have seen wants to sell you something new. A platform. A subscription. A seat license. A 'transformation.' I built KORIX to do the opposite. Your business already runs on software that works. We just make it think."

Shishir Mishra
Founder & Systems Architect, KORIX

19 years shipping AI, web, and mobile systems across fintech, healthcare, renewables, and SaaS. Every KORIX pilot led personally, from kick-off to handover.

FAQ

Questions about
BYOS.

Not sure if BYOS fits your stack? Book a free call and we will tell you honestly.

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What does BYOS mean?

BYOS stands for Bring Your Own Software. It is KORIX's core philosophy: instead of selling you a new AI platform, we build custom AI inside the software your team already uses — Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft 365, SAP, your internal systems. No new platform. No seat licenses. No vendor lock-in.

Why is BYOS better than buying a new AI platform?

Three reasons. (1) Adoption cost — new platforms require training, change management, months of rollout. BYOS eliminates this because your team already knows the software. (2) Data risk — moving data to a new platform creates compliance risk. BYOS keeps data where it lives. (3) Lock-in — platforms create ongoing dependency. BYOS leaves you owning everything.

What software does KORIX support with BYOS?

Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel), Google Workspace, SAP, NetSuite, Oracle, ServiceNow, Slack, Notion, Airtable, Confluence, Jira, Zendesk, Intercom — and any custom system with a modern API. If your stack is older or proprietary, we assess it in Discovery. We have integrated with systems going back to the 1990s.

Who is BYOS for?

Enterprises that have already invested in a software stack and do not want to rip it out. Teams burned by platform migrations. Regulated industries where data residency is non-negotiable. Founders who want AI but not another vendor relationship. If you have ever said "we already have too many tools," BYOS was built for you.

How is BYOS different from no-code AI tools?

No-code AI tools are still new platforms — you still have to adopt them, train your team on them, move data into them. BYOS is the opposite: we build custom AI inside your existing systems. Nothing new to learn, nothing new to adopt, nothing new to pay for monthly.

What do I own at the end of a BYOS engagement?

Everything. Source code, trained models, governance framework, documentation, and a trained internal team who can operate and extend the agent without us. Zero lock-in, zero ongoing dependency, zero recurring license fees to KORIX.

How do I get started?

Book a free 30-minute Readiness Call. We will assess your stack, tell you honestly whether BYOS is the right approach, and if so what it would look like. No sales pitch. No commitment.

Receipts

19 years of shipping.
One way of working.

Real numbers, real systems, real code shipped to production.

★★★★★
5.0
on Clutch
Independent reviews
150+
Projects shipped
to production
24
Countries served
across 4 continents
19
Years experience
led by Shishir Mishra
Practising what we ship

We run KORIX on KORIX.

Seven BYOS™ agents we built for ourselves in one week — running inside our own stack, monitoring this very website in real time. If we can build this for ourselves that fast, imagine what we can build for your business in 21 days.

7
Agents live now
GSC Health
Daily search console monitoring · alerts on coverage drops
PageSpeed
5 key pages tested every morning · flags Core Web Vitals slips
Sitemap Audit
Daily sitemap structure check · catches missing pages
Backup Verifier
Confirms backups ran · escalates if >24h stale
IndexNow
Weekly Bing/Yandex push · guaranteed indexing cycle
Auto-Index
Fires on every publish · submits to Google in seconds
Lead Monitor
Watches inbound · alerts on unprocessed >2h
Coming next
Your agent.
Built for your stack · in 21 days · fully owned by you

Same engineering. Same governance. Same ownership model. The difference between what we built for ourselves and what we build for you is just — the use case.

Want to see one in detail?

Numerology-Matrix — how we built a domain-specific AI platform from concept to production.

Read the case study →
Honest pricing

No platform fees.
No yearly licenses.

One fixed-fee engagement, scoped to your specific use case. Compared to platform-first AI consulting, most clients save 70–90% on total cost of ownership.

BYOS™ Pilot
Typical engagement
$15K–$40K

Scoped per use case · one-time fixed fee · 50% kick-off, 50% on Day 21 handover · no recurring license fees

  • Discovery, build & handover (21 days end-to-end)
  • Custom AI agent inside your existing stack
  • Full source code, models & documentation
  • Governance framework & audit trails from Day 1
  • Internal team training & complete handover
  • 21-day production guarantee — or you don’t pay milestone 2

What the alternatives cost for the same scope

Big consultancies (Accenture, Deloitte, McKinsey) $200K–$2M
Specialised AI shops (Faculty AI, Cambridge Consultants) $60K–$200K
+ AI platform license fees (annual, recurring) $50K–$500K/yr
KORIX BYOS™ Pilot · one-time $15K–$40K
Most clients save 70–90% on total cost of ownership over 3 years.

Final pricing depends on the complexity of your stack and use case. Book a free BYOS Fit Check for an exact figure.

The 21-day guarantee

In production by Day 21,
or you don’t pay milestone 2.

Every KORIX BYOS engagement is split into two milestones. Milestone 1 (kick-off): 50% on Day 1 to fund the work. Milestone 2 (handover): 50% only if your agent is running in production by Day 21. If we miss Day 21, you keep the work, the code, and the documentation built so far — and you pay nothing for milestone 2. No fine print. No hidden clauses. No "well actually."

Honest answers

The questions every CTO asks
before saying yes.

No marketing fluff. Five real concerns, answered the same way we would in a discovery call.

“
Won’t this break when Salesforce or HubSpot changes their API?

APIs do evolve, but enterprise vendors version their changes (v54 → v55) with 12–24 month deprecation windows. Every BYOS agent we build is versioned, monitored, and documented so your team can swap a deprecated endpoint in under an hour. The same maintenance any production integration needs — nothing more.

“
Isn’t this just Zapier with extra steps?

Zapier connects A to B with a fixed rule. A BYOS agent reasons, decides, and acts — reading context, weighing options, escalating edge cases to humans. It also runs inside your system of record under your compliance controls, not a third-party SaaS. Different tool, different problem.

“
What happens if KORIX disappears or gets acquired?

Nothing changes for you. From Day 22 onward, your team owns 100% of the code, the trained models, and the documentation. The agent runs inside your stack, with your credentials, on your infrastructure. KORIX going away has zero operational impact — that is the entire point of BYOS.

“
Can you really build inside our 20-year-old legacy system?

Almost certainly yes. We have integrated with custom CRMs from 2004, mainframe ERPs, proprietary trading platforms, and warehouse systems older than the team using them. If the system has any way to read or write data — even a database connection — we can build an agent on top of it. We assess your specific stack honestly in the first call.

“
What does my IT team actually have to do?

Less than you think. We need read/write API credentials for the systems we are extending, a sandbox environment for testing, and one technical contact for 30 minutes per week. We do not require your team to build, maintain, or learn anything during the 21 days — only to review and approve at handover.

“
How is governance actually built in — not bolted on later?

Every BYOS agent ships with three guardrails from Day 1: (1) confidence thresholds — low-confidence actions route to a human, (2) full audit trails — every decision logged and reviewable, (3) rollback policies — every action reversible. Your compliance team approves the policies in Discovery, before we write a line of code.

BYOS™ in practice

BYOS is the philosophy.
The 21-Day AI Pilot is how we deliver it.

If BYOS is how we think, the 21-Day AI Pilot is what you actually buy. Fixed scope. Fixed fee. One real business agent in production, inside your existing stack, in three weeks.

21
Days to production
Discovery, build, handover. Your team operates it on Day 22.
or you
don’t pay.
21-day guarantee
Not in production by Day 21? You don’t pay milestone 2. Simple.
100%
Owned by your team
Code, models, docs, trained team. Zero lock-in, zero recurring fees.
See the 21-Day AI Pilot →

Full process · Real timeline · Honest pricing

Stop buying platforms.
Start making yours intelligent.

Get a free 30-Minute BYOS™ Fit Check. We will look at your existing stack, tell you honestly whether BYOS is the right approach — and if so, what it would look like for your specific situation.

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