BUYER'S GUIDE
How to evaluate AI platforms
A vendor-neutral framework for regulated organizations. Architecture, operational, commercial, and compliance criteria.
- Steps
- 5
- Applies to
- Any AI platform, Huitzo included
This framework applies to evaluating any self-hosted AI runtime, cloud AI platform (such as AWS Bedrock), or DIY stack, Huitzo included. Score each vendor's application methodology against the criteria below; a self-hosted deployment can use pre-built applications designed to produce results in weeks, not months, while a fully custom build can take longer.
THE FRAMEWORK
What are the five criteria for evaluating AI platform vendors?
STEP 1
Define the workload boundary
List the data the workload touches and the regulatory regime it sits under. This determines whether self-hosted AI is required or just preferred.
STEP 2
List your model and integration constraints
Which models can the team run? Which internal systems must the runtime reach? Capture both before evaluating any vendor.
STEP 3
Evaluate vendors against architecture criteria
Where does data sit at rest and in flight? Is the runtime portable across environments? Can the customer swap models without changing applications?
STEP 4
Evaluate operational and commercial criteria
Deployment time, on-call ownership, upgrade cadence, version pinning, exit clauses, support tiers, professional-services scope.
STEP 5
Score against compliance posture
What does the vendor claim today? What is the customer's deployment expected to provide? Document both vendor claims and customer obligations.
HUITZO'S OWN ASSESSMENT
How Huitzo answers this checklist
Workload boundary and integration constraints
The runtime, the Packs, the data and the audit records stay inside infrastructure you control. Nothing is sent to Huitzo, and that includes logs. With a self-hosted model, no prompt leaves your network; with a hosted model provider, only the declared prompts cross, and the record states what crossed. On the hosted marketplace, your Pack, its data and its evidence live in your isolated tenant; the only thing that leaves it is the bounded model call, to the provider you chose, and we never train on your data.
Architecture criteria
Connects to what you already have. You choose the model; no vendor ties you down. Huitzo connects to your existing stack through one interface and is model-agnostic by design. Move between hosted and self-hosted models without rebuilding the business process.
Operational and commercial criteria
Commercial terms for both delivery modes are scoped in a working session.
Compliance posture
Huitzo Inc has not completed a SOC 2 examination and does not claim SOC 2 compliance. We have not pursued ISO 27001 or FedRAMP authorization. We state this plainly instead of leaving it for a buyer to discover in a security review.
QUESTIONS
Is this buyer's guide vendor-neutral, or a sales pitch for Huitzo?
Is this guide neutral or a Huitzo sales doc?
Where should compliance evidence come from?
AI operating system for regulated industries
Simple by design. Infinitely scalable. Runs where your data lives.
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