Short answer: use OpenAI for the image step in a simple CRM chatbot, keep Stability AI as the control-oriented alternative, and treat Midjourney as a Discord product rather than an embedded backend provider. The deciding constraint is integration friction, not a leaderboard score.

A sales-call assistant should be able to summarize a conversation, create a CRM action, and optionally produce a visual for the follow-up. The image must remain a side effect. If its provider blocks the CRM action, the architecture has already made the wrong trade.

This is an architecture decision record.…