Comparison

Pliuz vs Building It Yourself

Two senior engineers can ship the first cut in 4-8 weeks. Here is what you trade for the time — and the dimensions where no internal build can ever match approval infrastructure.

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Dimension	Pliuz	Build it yourself
Time to livePliuz	Same day. pip install + one decorator + Slack OAuth — aim for a working gated approval in ~10 minutes.	Weeks of senior-engineer time for a v1, plus more hardening before it touches production traffic.
Upfront costPliuz	A free dev track today (pip install pliuz, Apache-2.0). No engineering time, no platform to build.	Senior-engineer weeks before the first approval ever flows — plus the opportunity cost of the features you did not ship instead.
Audit trail integrityPliuz	SHA-256 hash-chained events, append-only at the DB-trigger level, verifiable by you via the public RPC pliuz_verify_chain() — it returns OK or names the first broken event.	Whatever you ship. Most teams use plain INSERTs without integrity proofs — discovered to be weak during the first audit. Hash-chaining done right requires expertise in event ordering, race conditions, concurrent cron jobs.
Maintenance burdenPliuz	We absorb Slack API breaking changes, new agent frameworks, regulator clarifications. Zero ongoing engineering cost for you.	Yours forever. Every Slack API change, every new framework you integrate, every regulator update is a sprint for your team — competing against feature work.
EU AI Act compliance (Art. 12/14/26)Pliuz	Articles 12 (immutable logs), 14 (human oversight), 26 (deployer obligations) mapped to product features. Internally documented (NDA-shareable); independent counsel review pending.	You defend the system to the regulator. Article mapping happens after you have already shipped — usually during the audit itself, which is the worst time.
Per-event provenance for CISOPliuz	auto_approve_source field on every audit event: policy \| tool_flag \| standing_grant \| human. A CISO can prove exactly why each action went through without review.	Provenance is inferred from call-site context. Rarely surfaces as a structured field. CISOs spend audit time grep-ing logs.
Total customizationDIY	Policies declarative (JSONLogic). Approver routing customizable. UI customizable on Enterprise. Cannot fork the control plane.	Total — every line of code is yours. But every line is also yours to write, maintain, and debug.
Vendor riskTie	SDKs open-source (Apache 2.0). HTTP API. Self-serve Ed25519-signed JSONL export, verifiable offline with an open-source verifier. Schema documented for self-host migration if we disappear.	No vendor by definition. Just engineering risk and key-person risk — the engineer who built it may leave before documenting.

When building internally is rational

Building internally gives you total customization over every line of code, and zero vendor risk by definition. If your team has the time and the expertise to absorb the audit chain design, the regulatory mapping, and the perpetual maintenance — and that time has no opportunity cost — building is rational.

Where no internal build can match

Where Pliuz keeps paying off vs an internal build: the audit chain, the per-event provenance, the policy engine, and the framework adapters are all maintained for you as Slack, the frameworks, and the regulations move — and the vertical compliance mapping (EU AI Act today, more as we go) is written once for the whole market instead of once per company.

Updated 2026-05-24. Spotted an error? Email founder@pliuz.com — we will fix it.

The gap an internal build can't close

One advantage you can verify today, and structural ones that scale with the number of Pliuz customers. An internal build serves one company. Pliuz serves the category.

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Tamper-evident audit you verify yourself

A SHA-256 hash chain — and per-event provenance — that holds up in an audit

Every decision is an append-only row chained by SHA-256, with UPDATE/DELETE/TRUNCATEblocked at the database. You don't take that on trust: run pliuz_verify_chain() and it returns OK or names the first broken event. Each row also carries auto_approve_source— policy, tool flag, standing grant, or a named human — so “why did this action go through?” has a structured answer, not a postmortem. Most DIY audit logs are plain INSERTs that fail their first real audit.

On the roadmap

Cross-tenant intelligence

Patterns no single team can see

A planned quarterly AI Agent Incident Report will surface which policy patterns prevent which incident classes — anonymized across the Pliuz customer base, once it is large enough to aggregate honestly. Your internal build sees one data point: your own.

Insurance recognition

Reduced cyber premiums

Cyber insurance carriers cannot audit and certify a custom internal system. They can — and will — recognize standardized Pliuz deployments. Premium discounts on the roadmap with our first carrier partnership.

Compliance packs

Pre-built compliance packs

EU AI Act Article 12/14/26 is already mapped to product features today (internally documented, independent counsel review pending). PCI DSS, HIPAA, and ISO 42001 packs — pre-built policy templates and audit-query mappings — are on the roadmap. Your team writes them once for one company; we write them once for the market.

Costs less per month than one day of one senior engineer.

pip install pliuz → @gated decorator → first Slack approval in 10 minutes. Decide later if it is the right fit.

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