After the expo, should I hire a large company or an independent? — answered by Engineer Saeed Baatiah
Large stands at an expo signal size, not suitability. A large company makes sense if your project is big, needs several disciplines, and requires broad contractual guarantees. For a well-scoped project — a site, a store, an automation, an internal system — a professional independent is cheaper and faster, and you deal directly with whoever does the work instead of an account manager. The right test: who will actually write the code, and did you meet them or a salesperson?