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Local models. Enterprise constraints. Business outcomes. IMPAKT helps leaders decide where AI should run, how prototypes become governed systems, and what completed workflows cost.

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API, Self-Hosted, or Hybrid? A Workload-Placement Matrix for Enterprise AI

Use this nine-row workload-placement matrix to decide when one enterprise AI workload belongs on a managed API, self-hosted infrastructure, or a deliberately bounded hybrid path. It turns data, capability, latency, demand, operations, exit cost, and control evidence into hard gates instead of a single weighted score.

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Three decision territories

Engineering details matter here because they change a business decision. Each territory connects mechanisms to ownership, controls, operating cost, and workflow consequences.

Governed Production

Decide what evaluations, permissions, observability, human checkpoints, and recovery paths an agent needs before wider use.

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Inference Economics

Compare options using cost per acceptable completed workflow—not token price or throughput in isolation.

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Private, Hybrid & Edge

Place workloads according to residency, privacy, latency, control, resilience, and the complexity you can operate.

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Working principles

Evidence before architecture fashion.

  • Workload first: define the data, quality bar, exception path, volume, and owner.
  • Governance in the design: controls shape architecture before review begins.
  • Completed workflow as the unit: include quality, labor, delay, and recovery—not only inference.
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