Path 1 — Junior members blocked on plumbing: Your newest data scientists spend 80% of their time on feature engineering, data wrangling, and pipeline glue code instead of actual modeling. Senior members get pulled into reviews and debugging instead of tackling high-impact problems.
Path 2 — Accuracy capped by flat feature tables: Hand-crafted features from flat tables can only capture so much signal. The richest predictive patterns live in the relationships across your relational database — joins your team never has time to explore.
Kumo lets your data scientists write prediction queries directly against your data warehouse. The foundation model automatically learns from the full relational structure — no feature engineering, no pipeline work, just predictions that ship in hours.