AI vendor selection is not software procurement

When you buy a SaaS tool, your data sits in someone else's database. When you buy an AI service, your data flows through someone else's model. It has the posibiliy to become training data. Your data might get embedded in weights you can never inspect. It might surface — partially reconstructed — in another customer's retrieval results. Procurement teams treat these as the same purchase. Same checklist — SOC 2, uptime SLA, data encryption at rest — check every box, sign the contract, and discove...