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Evaluating AI vendors as a buyer Interview Questions

23 questions. All 23 carry a written answer.

  1. #1List the ten questions you would ask every AI vendor before a pilot.ConceptFoundational
  2. #2How do you evaluate a vendor's quality claims without running your own eval?CaseIntermediate
  3. #3Design the pilot you would run to evaluate two competing AI vendors.CaseAdvanced
  4. #4What contractual terms matter specifically for AI vendors and not for other software?ConceptAdvanced
  5. #5How do you assess a vendor's model dependency and what happens if their provider changes terms?ConceptAdvanced
  6. #6Describe the data handling questions you would put to a vendor on behalf of your security team.CaseIntermediate
  7. #7What does a good vendor eval report look like and what should make you suspicious?Artifact critiqueAdvanced
  8. #8How do you compare vendors whose pricing models are structurally different?CalculationAdvanced
  9. #9Explain the risk of a vendor whose product is a thin layer over a public API.ConceptIntermediate
  10. #10What is the right pilot length and success criteria for an AI vendor evaluation?ConceptIntermediate
  11. #11How do you evaluate a vendor's roadmap credibility?ConceptIntermediate
  12. #12Describe the integration questions that determine real total cost.ConceptIntermediate
  13. #13What should you ask about a vendor's eval methodology?ConceptAdvanced
  14. #14How do you handle a vendor who will not disclose which model they use?CaseAdvanced
  15. #15Explain how to negotiate around usage-based pricing uncertainty.CalculationAdvanced
  16. #16What exit criteria should be in the contract from day one?ConceptAdvanced
  17. #17Describe the difference between evaluating a vendor and evaluating a model.ConceptIntermediate
  18. #18How do you test a vendor's product on your hardest cases rather than their demo cases?CaseIntermediate
  19. #19Build the vendor scorecard you would take to a procurement committee.Artifact critiqueAdvanced
  20. #20What does vendor lock-in look like when the vendor holds your embeddings?ConceptAdvanced
  21. #21How do you evaluate the support and incident response terms of an AI vendor?ConceptIntermediate
  22. #22A vendor's benchmark shows 98 percent accuracy. What do you ask next?CaseIntermediate
  23. #23Run me through your vendor evaluation for a category I name.InterviewAdvanced