When Vendors Resist Governance

LinkedIn Post 10: When Vendors Resist Governance

You ask your AI vendor to accept AVCGA governance requirements.

The vendor pushes back:

"Model update approval slows innovation."

"Data portability exposes trade secrets."

"Audit rights are unreasonable."

"We can't accept algorithmic liability."

Translation: Our business model depends on lock-in, not quality.

Vendors competing on quality shouldn't resist governance.

If your vendor claims that pre-update testing "slows innovation," they're admitting they push untested updates to your building. That's a vendor problem, not a governance problem.

If your vendor claims that model export "exposes trade secrets," they're conflating proprietary algorithm code with learned model weights. These are different things. You're not asking for code; you're asking for model parameters trained on your building's data.

If your vendor resists audit rights, they're hiding something.

The vendors who accept AVCGA readily are the vendors worth working with. They're confident in their model quality. They know they can earn your continued business through excellence, not lock-in.

The vendors who resist AVCGA are revealing their true value proposition: captivity, not capability.

Choose accordingly.

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