Builder.ai raised over $450M as an AI company. The AI was 700 engineers in India.

A year later, it remains a case study for any distributor looking at an AI vendor right now.

Builder.ai sold AI that built apps. Behind it sat about 700 engineers in India manually writing code, told to time their work to UK business hours and use British phrasing so it looked like an algorithm. The company raised hundreds of millions before collapsing in May 2025.

Software vendors are walking into companies each week with polished pitches. One question separates the real from the staged. Show me exactly where the model decides, what data was it trained on and how do you validate the results.

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