I interviewed at some AI companies a year or two back. They all had teams of people dedicated to support each client: to clean their data, train their models, integrate the domain-specific requirements, customize UIs, etc. They sold themselves as the next AI-powered mega-unicorns, but they were more like boutique consultancies with no obvious path to scale up.
"Boutique Consultancy" is quite recapitulative for most AI companies for now. But this may be the only way to empower their clients. One of these startups will find the path to scale up eventually.
