Path 1 — Custom pipelines per model: Every new use case means a dedicated ETL pipeline, feature store updates, schema drift fixes, and deployment orchestration. You spend 80% of your time on infrastructure and 20% on actual modeling. The pipeline code dwarfs the model code.
Path 2 — Try LLMs: They require entirely new serving infrastructure — GPU clusters, prompt management, token budgets, and latency optimization. And they still can't reason over the relational structure in your data warehouse.
Kumo connects directly to your data warehouse and handles training, deployment, and monitoring from a single platform. No feature stores. No custom ETL. Define predictions in a query language and the foundation model handles everything else.