The Diginomica Network - An Inside View of a CIO Replacing Tools With In-House AI Builds
Diginomica, Friday, September 25th, 2026
An anonymized Group CIO describes retraining developers as AI orchestrators, cutting an 18-month project to four months.
In this diginomica network profile, a Group CIO explains how retraining developers to work as AI orchestrators using Claude and Devin AI cut an 18-month project timeline to four months.
The team built in-house replacements for third-party tools like N8N and Redgate, eliminating roughly half a million dollars in licensing costs.
The CIO stresses that FinOps discipline and observability tooling are essential to control token-consumption costs, and that keeping "a human in the loop" remains core governance even as development accelerates dramatically.