The Orchestration Moat And Its Allies

Enterprise AI defensibility in financial services doesn’t rest on the power of a single model. As foundation models converge and costs decline, moats are forming higher in the stack—through orchestration that embeds into workflows, proprietary data loops that compound over time, and vertical specialization that encodes regulatory and domain expertise. The winners will be domain-specific platforms that turn services into software and deliver measurable, repeatable outcomes.