You think that’s funny, but from experience, I’d tell you this happens more often than you think.

A company I was with, that was a startup and then IPO’d, our pipeline involved an open office spreadsheet “deployed” (copy) onto the server, where then the Java webapp (war+tomcat) would read the inputs to calculate for millions of people, user classifier and what kind of robocall they should get in case of a utility event to prevent brownouts.

I would be curious what deployment would look like here… Would it be uploading the model back to the cloud to run inference for other users - like a marketplace?