Path 1 — Feature engineering by hand: You spend 80% of your time writing SQL joins, temporal aggregations, and window functions — not building models. Every new prediction task means weeks of pipeline work before you can even train a baseline.
Path 2 — Try LLMs on your data: Large language models flatten your relational data into text. They have no understanding of primary keys, foreign keys, or the multi-hop relationships between tables — exactly the structure that makes your predictions accurate.
Kumo's Predictive Query Language lets you express what you want to predict in a single query. The foundation model learns directly from your relational schema — no feature engineering, no flattening, no pipeline code. You get production-ready models with built-in explainability and evaluation metrics.