Selling Intelligence Was the Warm-Up For AI. Owning Vertical Markets May Be The Play

The most profitable move in artificial intelligence may no longer be selling intelligence. It is selling a model to a company, wiring it into that company’s most valuable work, learning the business from the inside, and then shipping the product that competes with it. In a previous piece for Inc42, I argued that the black box was losing the boardroom , and that enterprise AI built on the customer’s own terms was the opening worth chasing.