Comment by Incipient
11 days ago
We're trying/pushing this now as a small business, and it doesn't really work. Each deployment is/would be far too niche and expensive. No one has really gotten on board, so we've mostly just been doing normal data engineering/orchestration work instead.
Think of it like FDE work. It's cost front-loaded but very profitable on the back end, so early on you want to limit it to lighthouse customers. That being said my suggestion is to build some tooling for now to support your existing work that can be expanded gradually as a substrate for AI service, I expect the tools should mature within 6mo-1year, so you can offer trial AI services to new clients to reassess periodically.