AI Governance and Risk
AI vendor due diligence
Contract, portability, and exit-cost review, with specific attention to fine-tuning data portability and lock-in
- Duration
- 2 to 3 weeks
- Ladder stage
- Platform
- NATIVE stages
- Expand
The situation
When this engagement is the right one
The expensive clause is rarely the price. It is what you cannot take with you. If calibration data cannot be exported, your exit cost is the total loss of organisational learning built during the pilot.
You are probably seeing
- A renewal is approaching at materially higher volume.
- Two business units hold different terms with the same vendor.
- Nobody has asked whether fine-tuning data is exportable.
What we do
The work, in the order it happens
- 01Review contract terms against a portability and exit checklist.
- 02Test the export path in practice where the vendor permits it.
- 03Model the crossover point and the cost curve at projected volume.
- 04Produce the negotiation position with specific clause language.
What you get, and keep
- A portability and exit-cost assessment per vendor.
- A cost curve at three volume scenarios.
- A negotiation brief with clause-level recommendations.
Prerequisites
- Access to the current contract and the actual usage data.
Not included
- We do not negotiate on your behalf and we take no fee from any vendor, ever.
Where this sits in the method
Commercially this is a Platform engagement on the Proof, Product, Platform ladder.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
- Do you have vendor relationships that bias this?
- No. We hold no exclusive platform relationship and take no vendor commission. Where we participate in a partner programme, we say so on the page.
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Next step
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