Buyer evaluation guide
A product demo shows a workflow. A buyer still needs the task record, reviewer corrections, failure cases, data boundaries, and an exit decision. Use this checklist before a pilot or technical evaluation.
Buyer questions
The pilot record includes fixed tasks, versioned artifacts, a baseline workflow, success criteria, run logs, tool and model versions, analyst actions, reviewer corrections, timing, cost, and failure cases.
Ask the vendor to connect each material conclusion to the underlying address, function, trace, tool result, or reviewer note. The export needs to distinguish observations, model suggestions, analyst conclusions, and unresolved questions.
Confirm model placement, artifact storage, outbound connections, sandbox boundaries, access control, audit logs, retention, deletion, supported formats, update paths, and the evidence available for each security or compliance statement.
Positioning
The evaluation uses representative work from the buyer environment. The team records the artifact, analyst question, expected evidence, baseline path, and completion rule before either run begins.
The reviewer needs to separate extracted facts from model suggestions and analyst conclusions. A useful export preserves that boundary and records corrections.
The buyer verifies the architecture against the intended environment. Product labels do not replace data-flow, access-control, retention, and update evidence.
The buyer records accepted tasks, rejected tasks, reviewer effort, operating cost, failure patterns, and the deployment conditions required for a next step.
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