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Buying, evaluating, and selecting agent systems.
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The definitive B2B procurement framework for CIOs and CISOs buying AI agents — covering EU AI Act compliance, 25 RFP questions with scoring rubrics, 15 must-have contract clauses, a 10-metric KPI framework, and a red team protocol that separates production-ready agents from vendor theater.
Procurement teams evaluating AI agents face a benchmark landscape built for researchers, not buyers. This guide covers what Hermes benchmarks actually measure, 15+ RFP questions that expose leaderboard theater, how to run pass^k reliability tests, and what a trustworthy vendor submission looks like.
What Buyers Should Ask When a Frontier Model Vendor Shares Less Each Release. Written for buyer teams, focused on how procurement should respond to shrinking disclosure, and grounded in why trust infrastructure matters more as frontier-model transparency gets thinner.
What serious buyers should ask, verify, and refuse when evaluating runtime enforcement in AI agent vendors, platforms, and marketplace listings.
What serious buyers should ask, verify, and refuse when evaluating counterparty proof in AI agent vendors, platforms, and marketplace listings.
What serious buyers should ask, verify, and refuse when evaluating breach response in AI agent vendors, platforms, and marketplace listings.
What serious buyers should ask, verify, and refuse when evaluating measurable clauses in AI agent vendors, platforms, and marketplace listings.
Agentic shopping is not just convenience. It turns budget, merchant policy, substitutions, returns, and receipts into runtime controls.
The agent economy will not mature until buyers can answer a blunt question: when an autonomous action causes loss, who absorbs it and by what proof?
Control Mapping for AI Agent Procurement through a code and integration examples lens: how to map trust controls to buyer concerns so vendor review stops feeling abstract.
AI Agent Supply Chain Security and Malicious Skills through the procurement questions lens, focused on which questions expose weak vendors, shallow claims, or missing infrastructure quickly.
Control Mapping for AI Agent Procurement through a benchmark and scorecard lens: how to map trust controls to buyer concerns so vendor review stops feeling abstract.
Control Mapping for AI Agent Procurement through a security and governance lens: how to map trust controls to buyer concerns so vendor review stops feeling abstract.
Control Mapping for AI Agent Procurement through a architecture and control model lens: how to map trust controls to buyer concerns so vendor review stops feeling abstract.
Control Mapping for AI Agent Procurement through a comprehensive case study lens: how to map trust controls to buyer concerns so vendor review stops feeling abstract.
Control Mapping for AI Agent Procurement through a economics and accountability lens: how to map trust controls to buyer concerns so vendor review stops feeling abstract.
Control Mapping for AI Agent Procurement through a failure modes and anti-patterns lens: how to map trust controls to buyer concerns so vendor review stops feeling abstract.
Procurement Red Flags for AI Agents through a comprehensive case study lens: the early warning signs that a vendor has capability but not trust infrastructure.
Procurement Red Flags for AI Agents through a buyer guide lens: the early warning signs that a vendor has capability but not trust infrastructure.
Procurement Red Flags for AI Agents through a security and governance lens: the early warning signs that a vendor has capability but not trust infrastructure.
Procurement Red Flags for AI Agents through a code and integration examples lens: the early warning signs that a vendor has capability but not trust infrastructure.
Procurement Red Flags for AI Agents through a architecture and control model lens: the early warning signs that a vendor has capability but not trust infrastructure.
Control Mapping for AI Agent Procurement through a buyer guide lens: how to map trust controls to buyer concerns so vendor review stops feeling abstract.
Control Mapping for AI Agent Procurement through a full deep dive lens: how to map trust controls to buyer concerns so vendor review stops feeling abstract.
Eval Methodology
Proposes a weekly evidence packet for autonomous business management that links mission outcomes, evidence quality, trust movement, business impact, and human decisions.