Path 1 — Build it yourself: Each model needs custom ETL, feature engineering, serving infrastructure, and monitoring. 80% of your team's time is plumbing. Your best researchers spend more time debugging Airflow DAGs than improving model accuracy.
Path 2 — Try LLMs for structured data: LLMs can't handle structured relational data at production accuracy. They tokenize your tables as text, losing the relational structure — primary keys, foreign keys, temporal patterns — that encodes your most valuable signals.
Kumo replaces the entire pipeline. It connects to your data warehouse, learns directly from relational structure, and delivers production-ready predictions — so your ML team can finally focus on modeling, not infrastructure.