Can AIQ be used by internal teams without Five Blocks’ involvement?

Yes. AIQ is sold as a self-serve product and the majority of subscribers run it without any advisory engagement on the Five Blocks side. The typical pattern: an in-house comms team or agency starts a trial, sets up topics, and uses the data inside their own reporting workflow. Some of those subscribers later engage us when the data points to source-layer work (work on the sources the AI engines read, not the engines themselves) they need help executing on. Others run AIQ on its own indefinitely. Both are valid uses of the platform.