Vendor Evaluation3 September 2026
AI Vendor Independence: How to Prove You Are Not Locked In
Lock-in is not a feeling, it is a measurable exit cost. The seven layers where AI vendors trap buyers, and the evidence that proves independence.
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Hand-written comparisons and buying tools: TCO, deployment models, exit clauses and the questions that expose compliance debt in an RFP.
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Vendor Evaluation20 August 2026
Sovereign AI TCO: On-Prem vs API Over 3 Years
A line-by-line three-year cost comparison of metered API inference, European managed hosting and owned on-premise AI capacity, with the break-even points.
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