Train a small open-weight model on your proprietary outcomes for one scoped job — fraud, triage, routing, review — then point your existing agent or harness at it. Shared cloud, your VPC, or confidential GPUs. Beat frontier reliability without frontier prices.
A task model is a small open-weight model trained on your data for one job, then called by your agent. Specialist Factory is the brand; the product is the task model under the stack — not another “specialist agent.”
Make the agent demo reliable without burning frontier budget on every call.
Same workflow, better decisions — measured against labels you already have.
Eval-first training, trust tiers, adapters wired into the runtime you own.
Frontier models stay for open-ended work. For the high-volume loop, put a task model underneath — Shared for Pilot, your VPC when data is material, confidential GPUs when attestation is required.
Prove beat-frontier on your eval. Fastest win for GTM and eng.
Train in your VPC when proprietary data can't leave.
Attested NVIDIA TEEs when “feels like exfil” still blocks the deal.
Pilot includes training credits. Point your harness at the task model and go.