AI Consulting Wins When It Embraces Model Freedom

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are all moving into enterprise AI consulting, signaling that AI adoption requires human expertise beyond just API access. The post argues that successful AI consulting must be model-agnostic rather than locked into a single vendor, as the best model for any given task changes rapidly. Drawing on examples like BCG deploying 36,000 custom GPTs and benchmarks showing emerging models from Stepfun and DeepSeek competing with Claude Haiku on value, the author contends that the winning consultants will be smaller, faster, technically deep, and capable of orchestrating across a shifting model landscape. Kilo positions its own Auto Frontier Model feature as an example of this model-freedom approach.