Path 1 — Custom pipelines per model: Every model needs custom ETL, feature computation, serving, monitoring, and retraining — and you're responsible for all of it. The pipeline code dwarfs the model code, and every new use case multiplies the maintenance burden.
Path 2 — LLMs for structured data: They need entirely new infrastructure — GPU clusters, prompt engineering, guardrails, latency optimization — for problems your data warehouse already has the answers to. And they still can't reason over relational structure.
Kumo connects directly to your data warehouse and handles the entire lifecycle — training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining. No feature stores. No custom ETL. Define predictions in a query language and the foundation model handles everything else.