Your Vendor’s Demo Is Fast. Why Is the Invoice Slow?
The demo lands, the agent writes code in real time, and someone in the room says the quiet part out loud: if the software can be built this fast, why does everything around it still take weeks? The pull request opens before the sales call ends. The invoice for that same work clears a month later.That mismatch is the story of agent-assisted software delivery right now. Typing sped up while reviewing, deploying, approving, and paying stayed on their old schedule. If you're commissioning custom software and wondering why the speed you saw in the demo keeps disappearing somewhere between the merge and the money, the answer is less about the model and more about the pipeline it lives inside.The Demo Is Honest. The Production Pipeline Is the CatchVendors aren't lying…




