“Start with a strong foundation, specialize it deeply for the work that matters, and you can build intelligence that is highly capable, far more efficient and entirely under your control.”
$40 million buys a fine-tune, not a frontier model. They started from someone else’s foundation and trained on under 10% of their own Westlaw and Checkpoint corpus, then called the result competitive with the labs spending billions. The tell is “Fiduciary-Grade” with a trademark symbol attached. That is a marketing department inventing a standard nobody audits.