So you want to build your own presales platform.
Every team that watches an AI tool produce something impressive in an afternoon arrives at the same question: if it's this easy, why are we paying for the real thing? This paper is an honest look at what that question misses, told through the places it has already played out, and what it means for the leaders now asking it about presales.
The full argument, not a sales pitch
It's not an argument against AI. Homerun is built on it. It's about where AI belongs, and where a home-built tool quietly costs you more than it saves.
Why presales is the next place this happens
The prototype dazzles and the hard part stays below the surface, and technical, curious presales teams already living in AI tools are the perfect conditions for it.
The five traps that surface only after it works
The last 10%, consistency across a team, the builder-as-helpdesk, nothing shared, and why custom CRM fields make the data worse.
Where the line actually sits
What's genuinely fine to build yourself, and what sits so far above the line that rebuilding it is a mistake.
Five questions to escalate
A short set to take to your leadership team that separates a weekend prototype from a system you can run a business on.
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