AI Plumber · field map

The agentic stack — four layers

Not thirty boxes. One line of work: from a model you rent to plumbing you own.

Rented

Model

Pick one brain for the job. Hard reasoning · everyday work · cheap volume. Swap models. Don’t build your company on a single chat window.

Rented / product surface

Workspace

Where work happens. Code · multi-step projects · slides & prototypes. Still a product. Still someone else’s UI.

Your systems

Tools & data

Connect once, stop copy-paste. APIs · MCP-style connectors · the apps your team already lives in. This is where productivity shows up.

Owned · non-negotiable

Governance

Identity · audit · human gates · kill switches. Memory and CI/CD only matter if this layer holds. Regulators examine plumbing — not demos.

Intelligence is rented. Plumbing is owned. koenvanlysebetten.com · aiplumber.dev

Why this is simpler than the vendor map