Approval process
Assign roles, sequence review work, and define what a decision record should contain.
Read the guidePractical AI vendor evaluation
Make a clearer AI vendor decision
Use a bounded process to define the use case, request relevant evidence, record uncertainty, and prepare a decision that stays with accountable people.
Start with the decision
Turn a broad vendor review into a bounded record
An AI vendor review is easier to examine when it names one proposed use case, the data involved, the people affected, and the decision owner.
This site provides reusable structures for that work. It does not assess vendors, receive documents, or make approval decisions.
Resource library
Move from questions to a reviewable recommendation
Due diligence checklist
Cover use case, data, model, security, legal, operational, and oversight questions.
Use the checklistSecurity questionnaire
Ask targeted questions and connect each answer to evidence or an explicit gap.
Review the questionsApproval memo example
See a synthetic structure for findings, conditions, unresolved items, and ownership.
Open the exampleKeep judgment visible
Evidence informs a decision. It does not own one.
Scores and labels can help organize review work, but they should not replace context, specialist input, or the accountable human’s judgment.