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Choose an AI platform with evidence for your needs.
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11 starting criteria · 5 starting options · a 9-question intake. For: Platform teams, architecture boards, and CTOs standardizing how business units pick AI tooling.
- Cost efficiency
- Value per dollar spent. Low (0-3): heavy licensing or build cost per outcome. High (8-10): near-zero marginal cost for the value delivered.
- Scalability
- Growth from pilot to org-wide or production volume. Low (0-3): struggles beyond a small team. High (8-10): proven enterprise/production scale.
- Ease of use
- How fast a typical user becomes productive. Low (0-3): engineers required for everything. High (8-10): business users self-serve on day one.
- Data security & governance
- Data protection, residency, access control, auditability. Low (0-3): data leaves your boundary with limited control. High (8-10): in-boundary with full governance and audit.
- Integration & connectivity
- Breadth and depth of connections to your systems (APIs, MCP, connectors, data platforms). Low (0-3): closed ecosystem. High (8-10): connects to nearly anything you run.
- Customization & extensibility
- How far you can adapt it beyond out-of-the-box behavior. Low (0-3): fixed product behavior. High (8-10): build almost anything on top of it.
- Automation & orchestration
- Support for multi-step, multi-agent, scheduled or event-driven workflows. Low (0-3): interactive use only. High (8-10): full orchestration with monitoring and retries.
- Time to value
- Time from decision to first real value. Low (0-3): months of build before anything useful. High (8-10): useful within days.
- Model quality & reasoning
- Intelligence of the underlying models, reasoning depth, code quality, accuracy. Low (0-3): basic assistance only. High (8-10): frontier-model performance.
- Reliability & support
- Uptime, SLAs, and support when things break. Low (0-3): best-effort internal support only. High (8-10): contractual SLAs with 24/7 vendor support.
- Vendor lock-in & portability
- How easy it is to leave later. Low (0-3): deeply tied to one vendor's ecosystem. High (8-10): portable, open standards, or you own the platform.