Data transformation is the process of converting data from one format or structure into another. Imagine your favorite band's music being played in a concert.
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Open-weight models are cheap enough to try different approaches, which means you can redesign the work rather than speed up steps that were shaped for peopleThe tools finish part of a task and hand the job back. Closing that gap starts with writing down what your people already do without thinkingCopying an org chart into a swarm of agents skips the process underneath it, and the bill turns up long before the value does.Small businesses are getting more out of AI than big enterprises because they can actually make decisions, and the gap between trying AI and building it into your workflows is where the value sits.The strongest case for AI agents isn't the cost per task. It's that your people stop paying the switching tax.The case for open weight models on your own hardware is control over your data and a price nobody else can change, not a smaller token bill