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Models get swapped.
The orchestration stays.

Frontier models are converging into commodities. What holds an enterprise AI relationship in place is the layer built around them — watch the socket, not the chip.

01 · The stack

Commodity below, moat above

Three layers, two very different economics. Click each one.

02 · The erosion

One line decays, one compounds

Benchmark leads reset with every release cycle. The Integration Graph only accumulates. Eight quarters, illustrative shape.

"our model is better" — advantage over the fielddecays

Integration Graph — accumulated org-specific structurecompounds

Illustrative curves — the shapes are the argument, not measured data.

03 · The diagnostic

The Portability Audit

If your vendor disappeared tomorrow — what comes with you? Toggle what's true of your current setup.

Permissions are exportableagent access rules exist outside the vendor's policy engine

Escalation logic is documented vendor-neutrallywho takes over, and when, survives on paper

Audit trail exports in a standard formatcompliance continuity doesn't break on migration

Routing rules live in your config, not theirswhich model handles which step is yours to move

Workflow state has an export pathin-flight processes and learned context can leave

You've tested a model swappointed one workflow at a second provider, even once

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