Where does our intellectual capital actually live?

The valuable asset in a mature AI deployment is not the model, which anyone can rent. It is the accumulated set of prompts, rules and domain knowledge that make the model answer the way this organization needs. Where that asset lives determines whether it is portable.

Skills and prompts are records in the organization's own SQL environment — version-controlled, audit-logged and scoped by audience — rather than configuration inside a vendor's product. 451 Research noted this as central to the model-agnostic claim: the business logic is portable across any model precisely because it was never stored in one.