Should companies focus on building their own intelligence layer?

Companies need their own AI intelligence layer, not just API access. Isaac Ferreira, VP of Growth Systems and AI at Shift Paradigm, breaks down why proprietary operating context matters more than model choice. He explains how enterprise AI accounts avoid training data leakage, why businesses should build fallback capability across multiple models, and when locally hosted open-weight models beat frontier models for high-risk processes. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .