Model Strategy & Opportunity Architecture
A clear decision framework prevents organizations from overbuilding a foundation model when a focused domain model can create more value.
- Map product, operational, knowledge, and decision use cases to measurable model requirements
- Choose between hosted models, open-weight models, retrieval, fine-tuning, continued pretraining, distillation, and from-scratch training
- Define target model size, modalities, context, latency, throughput, residency, availability, and cost envelopes
- Assess data readiness, ownership, licensing, privacy, security, annotation effort, compute demand, and operating capability
- Create a staged roadmap with feasibility gates, baseline comparisons, investment decisions, and pilot-to-production criteria

