CMBuyer-honest comparison
Compare — three alternatives, side by side.
Every row below is a capability a buyer asks about within the first thirty minutes. Where the alternative wins, we say so — Axiom is a cockpit, not a religion.
Hiring the disciplines on /disciplines yourself, fully loaded with benefits and equity.
Annual fully-loaded cost
~$2.96M/year for the team, single fixed contract for Axiom.
Time to first proposal
Hours after wiring credentials vs. months of hiring + ramp.
Attrition risk on critical paths
24/7 coverage across surfaces
Domain depth (security, FinOps…)
Humans win on edge cases; Axiom wins on consistency + 100% recall.
Provenance + sha-256 audit rows
Approval-only-no-execution gate
Humans approve their own work without a forcing function.
Onboarding cost for net-new hires
Comparing on dashboards alone misses the point.
Compare the exact released workflow, connector configuration, authorization, persistence, and recovery behavior—not a generic feature count.