Your AI Readiness Is Showing
If you're hiring 4 senior data engineers, you're not doing AI yet — you're building the foundation you skipped.
Every company says they’re “doing AI.”
Then you look at the job postings.
If you’re hiring 4 senior data engineers and a head of data quality — you’re not doing AI. You’re building the foundation you skipped.
That’s not a criticism. That’s the right move.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth: most orgs are 6–12 months of platform work away from production AI. And no amount of prompt engineering shortcuts that timeline.
The companies shipping real AI products today? They invested in data infrastructure years ago. Or they brought in a team that could compress that timeline.
That’s what we do at Sovont. Not the AI hype layer — the production layer underneath it.