Why This Role Exists Foundation models are commoditizing. Defensibility comes from specialized models, proprietary training signals, and evaluation ownership. Every applied AI company we benchmark against like Decagon, Harvey, Sierra, Cursor has already moved. The window to claim frontier applied AI for revenue is closing in the next few months. Rox is in market. We run agents against enterprise data at scale, every day. We see exactly where research meets production and where the data is dirt