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Start with Intelligence Debt.

The series opens with the liability on no balance sheet and its largest contributor, model fragmentation. Later articles take up the other contributors.

No. 01 · Model fragmentation

Intelligence Debt

Every enterprise is running less intelligence than it could. The gap is a liability, it accrues interest, and it appears on no balance sheet. The largest contributor is model fragmentation: a hundred rational decisions that become a hundred models. What it costs over five years, and the organization-level AI strategy that retires it.

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Send us the use-case list from your RFP and we will return it as a role map: which three core models would carry it, which specialists it needs, and the five-year bill both ways, on your numbers.

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01 Count the models: every endpoint, adapter and API key, including the ones nobody approved.

02 Put one gateway in front of all of it before changing anything else. Visibility first.

03 Give every production use case an evaluation set. Without it there is no migration, only opinions.