Anyone can add AI. Few can decide where it belongs.
POSITION ON THE USES → BUILDS AXIS · 88% TOWARD BUILD
The AI Solutions Architect designs the whole system — which models, which tools, which infrastructure, which data flows — and, just as importantly, what to leave out.
This is the senior, design-the-whole-thing role. The hard part is rarely capability; it is judgement about fit, cost, risk and what not to build.
It rhymes closely with engineering leadership: the value is in the decision made early, before momentum makes alternatives expensive.
