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The Multi-Model Margin Curve: Why AI Infrastructure Becomes an Agency P&L Line
AI infrastructure stopped being a build detail and became a margin variable: when model access is a single-provider line item, every vendor price move, capacity crunch, or terms change lands directly on retainer profitability.
By InnovaAI ResearchPublished Updated
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71/100AI infrastructure stopped being a build detail and became a margin variable: when model access is a single-provider line item, every vendor price move, capacity crunch, or terms change lands directly on retainer profitability. Agencies that route across multiple providers and meter cost per client deliverable convert that exposure into a pricing advantage; those that do not absorb it as an unrecovered cost of delivery.