Weights as Commodity

A commodity is defined by substitutability rather than by low quality. Generated output across leading models has converged to the point where, for most enterprise tasks, a competent harness produces acceptable results from any of them — and the remaining differences are narrower than the variation introduced by prompt design. When that holds, the rational procurement posture changes: the buyer stops asking which model is best and starts asking which is cheapest for this class of work, which runs in the required jurisdiction, and which can be replaced without notice. Providers resist this framing, because a commodity supplier cannot command a strategic relationship.

Centralpoint procures inference on exactly those terms. Requests are routed per execution across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot or embedded Llama, Qwen and ONNX; consumption is metered per request and per skill; cost consolidates onto one invoice below published rates; and the governed cache removes the most repeated work from the meter entirely.