Each serves one buyer. Serving all four breaks their model.
01Single-jurisdiction cloudsOne control plane per cloud. Outside it, the client starts from zero.
02Model-first platformsTheir model first. Routing to a rival is revenue leaving their model.
03Ontology platformsYour business's meaning moves into their layer. Leaving means extraction.
04Developer gatewaysSold by the seat to engineers. Routing goes to zero. Production does not.
05Incumbent stacks and hoursInside the account already. Sold in hours, delivered in twelve months. Two weeks cuts both.
THE REAL SUBSTITUTE IS THE DEFAULT: THE CLOUD'S OWN AI, THE INTEGRATOR'S HOURS, THE INTERNAL BUILD.
95% OF PILOTS NEVER REACH THE P&L · MIT
Saptiva AIThe control plane itself. Nothing else to protect. Four yeses, one contract, two weeks.
Gaps close. Conflicts do not.
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