The systems, abstractions, and operational layers that make AI models usable at scale, from compute and caching to routing, governance, agent hosting, and credential management.

Enterprise software sits at the intersection of organizational process, vendor ecosystems, and institutional trust, with recent sources highlighting governance pressures from AI adoption, supply chain risk, onboarding dysfunction, and the fragility of human-scale loyalty.

Platform strategy governs how products, companies, and infrastructure define their foundational layer, control access to it, and build durable advantage — a question that runs from cloud architecture to AI tooling to startup positioning.