Rent the model. Own the harness. Own the network.
Source: Fortune ·
Every AI stack has choke points. Most are traps.
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In 2004, Tiger Woods was already the greatest golfer alive. Eight majors. Years as world number one. Nothing in the data said fix anything. He rebuilt his swing anyway. Working with Hank Haney, he dismantled the mechanics that had produced his greatest results and started over from the ground up. His driving accuracy fell to 182nd. The press said his game was coming apart. Three years later he had the best season of his career. That is the dilemma almost every company we work with is in. The business is running. The numbers are fine. Someone on the team is tweaking a workflow with a language model and calling it AI adoption. The easy move is to leave it there and renew the SaaS contracts for another year. It is also the biggest risk sitting on the balance sheet. Becoming AI-first requires something closer to Tiger’s rebuild. Thirty or fifty specialized models, orchestrated into a recursive organization that gets smarter every quarter. I made the full architectural case in Infinite…