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Buyer-side operating standard

Vendor Independence Charter

Independence must change incentives, methods, evidence ownership, and exit options—not merely appear in a slogan.

Intelligence724 represents the client’s process and decision. Relevant referral, reseller, marketplace, investment, alliance, and subcontractor economics are disclosed; client-owned criteria control comparisons; and a valid recommendation may be another vendor, conventional automation, a smaller scope, defer, or no AI.

What vendor independence means

Intelligence724 begins with the client’s process, economics, risk, architecture, and operating requirements. A platform, model, partner, or implementation path is evaluated only after those requirements and decision gates are documented.

Commercial disclosure

  • Disclose relevant referral fees, resale margins, marketplace incentives, cloud credits, co-selling commitments, investments, and alliance benefits.
  • Do not accept undisclosed commissions tied to a client recommendation.
  • Identify specialist subcontractors, their role, and whether Intelligence724 marks up or manages their work.
  • Record conflicts, recusals, and client-approved exceptions before evaluation begins.

Client-owned decision system

  • The client approves requirements, weights, acceptance thresholds, risk tolerance, and final decision rights.
  • Evaluation sets, scorecards, test results, architecture records, and decision memoranda remain usable if another provider implements the work.
  • Comparisons include build, buy, configure, conventional automation, defer, and do-nothing options where relevant.
  • Total cost includes integration, human review, monitoring, change, migration, and exit—not only license or model consumption.

Portability and exit

Architecture recommendations address data export, prompt and workflow portability, evaluation-asset ownership, telemetry access, model change, deprecation, transition assistance, and a credible return to a safe prior process.

Claim boundary

This charter is an operating policy. It does not imply that every technology provider or implementation partner is conflicted, and it does not convert Intelligence724 into a law firm, regulated auditor, or accredited certification body.

Answers

Frequently asked questions

Can Intelligence724 recommend a partner or platform?

Yes, when the recommendation follows client-owned criteria and all commercially relevant relationships are disclosed before the decision.

Does independence mean Intelligence724 never implements?

No. Intelligence724 may implement or oversee delivery, but the engagement must preserve explicit evaluation criteria, decision gates, conflict disclosure, and the ability to recommend a smaller scope, another provider, or stop.

Who makes the final sourcing decision?

The client retains budget, risk, procurement, legal, and operating authority. Intelligence724 supplies evidence, alternatives, technical schedules, and decision support.

Questions and next steps

Talk with Intelligence724 about the decision in front of you.

Use the contact route for service, source, publication, accessibility, privacy, or engagement questions. Start with non-sensitive context only.