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Checklist

Enterprise AI Procurement Evidence Checklist

A technical evidence checklist for enterprise AI vendor and product reviews.

Decision resourceUse the artifact with a named owner
Resource type
Checklist
Version
1.48.0
Decision
An AI-enabled vendor cannot answer customer security, architecture, data-use, human-oversight, and change-management questions consistently.

Purpose and use

An AI-enabled vendor cannot answer customer security, architecture, data-use, human-oversight, and change-management questions consistently.

Who should use it

Enterprise, Partner decision owners, technical owners, reviewers, and delivery partners.

Decision supported

An AI-enabled vendor cannot answer customer security, architecture, data-use, human-oversight, and change-management questions consistently.

Product and data

For each item, record the responsible owner, evidence, and whether the answer is Yes, Partly, No, Unknown, or Not applicable when the worksheet format supports it.

  • Intended use and prohibited use
  • Model and vendor inventory
  • Data flow, storage, retention, and training-use terms
  • Tenant and role access boundaries
  • Subprocessors and external dependencies

Behavior and control

For each item, record the responsible owner, evidence, and whether the answer is Yes, Partly, No, Unknown, or Not applicable when the worksheet format supports it.

  • Representative evaluation cases and results
  • Human review and action authority
  • Prompt, model, and data change control
  • Logging, incident, rollback, and support boundaries
  • Known limitations and refusal behavior

Response package

For each item, record the responsible owner, evidence, and whether the answer is Yes, Partly, No, Unknown, or Not applicable when the worksheet format supports it.

  • System card
  • Architecture and data-flow diagrams
  • Technical response library
  • Risk register and decision owners
  • Last-reviewed dates and source owners
Usage boundary: Technical preparation only; not legal advice, certification, or assurance that a buyer will approve the vendor.

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