AI Vendor Risk Assessment
CYBAIR on the third-party AI systems in your supply chain. Each vendor AI workload is a CYBAIR unit — plus the engagement to turn scores into a risk and attestation plan.
Operational Friction & Multipolar Mandate
Why traditional ad-hoc approaches fail at scale, and the precision protocol deployed to resolve it.
Why this engagement exists
Third-party AI is now inside core workflows, and vendor questionnaires do not produce workload-level posture or evidence an auditor will accept. Organizations inherit the risk posture of every vendor AI system that touches their data, customers, or mission — without ever measuring it.
- ✕Vendor AI risk is “managed” through questionnaires and SOC 2 reports that never mention the actual workloads.
- ✕No one can say which third-party AI systems create unacceptable residual risk.
- ✕Procurement has no attestation language or posture bar to put in contracts.
- ✕An incident at a vendor becomes your incident, with no prior assessment to point to.
Engineered scope & execution
Each vendor AI workload that touches your data, customers, or mission is a CYBAIR unit at $5,000 — scored with the same engine as first-party workloads, compliance and evidence included. The engagement turns those scores into a third-party risk map, an evidence and attestation strategy, and a prioritized remediation plan procurement can actually use.
- ✓Vendor AI inventory: the systems that actually touch your data, customers, or mission
- ✓CYBAIR posture scoring per vendor workload
- ✓Third-party risk exposure mapping
- ✓Vendor evidence and attestation strategy
- ✓Attestation language and remediation sequence for procurement
What You Take Away
Every deliverable is named, structured, and tied to an immutable operational outcome. Nothing ships as a slide deck with no longevity.
Vendor AI posture scores
CYBAIR posture per vendor AI workload — the same engine, evidence, and compliance crosswalk as first-party work.
Vendor risk is measured at workload level, not asserted by questionnaire.
Third-party risk exposure map
Which vendors create unacceptable residual risk, why, and where the exposure concentrates.
You can rank, challenge, or exit vendors based on measured posture.
Vendor evidence and attestation strategy
The evidence and attestation posture you should demand from vendors, and how to verify it.
Vendor assurance becomes contractual and verifiable instead of trust-based.
Prioritized vendor-risk remediation plan
Sequenced actions with attestation language procurement can put into contracts and renewals.
Procurement and security move together with a concrete bar and sequence.
How This Engagement Runs
Structured gates from initial telemetry and baseline ingestion to verified exit capabilities.
Inventory vendor AI
We identify the third-party AI systems that actually touch your data, customers, or mission. Each one is a CYBAIR unit; the count is confirmed before scoring.
Score posture
The same CYBAIR engine as first-party workloads: posture, compliance, and evidence per vendor workload.
Map exposure
We map which vendors create unacceptable residual risk and why — concentration, criticality, and substitutability.
Set the bar
Attestation language and a remediation sequence procurement can use in contracts and renewals, closed with a readout.
Interactive Pricing Studio & Scope Engine
Our pricing is engineered, not asserted. Configure your organization profile and estate parameters to see the exact real-time cost breakdown.
Configure Your Parameters
The fee moves on three objective multipliers—Sensitivity, Involvement, and Org Type. Each factor reflects real operational handling and operator time.
Sensitivity
×0.90 – ×1.30 on the engagement feeSensitivity sets the handling envelope around the whole engagement: how data moves, where evidence lives, who can touch it, and what containment we must maintain. Higher sensitivity means cleared handling, segregated evidence, and slower, more deliberate operations — real cost that a flat fee would hide.
Involvement
×0.85 – ×1.35 on the engagement feeInvolvement is how much Multipolar operator time is on the hook. Counsel at checkpoints is a different commitment than embedded delivery inside your team, your systems, and your cadence. The multiplier tracks senior hours actually committed — not a markup.
Organization type
×0.85 – ×1.25 on the engagement feeThe same technical work lands differently depending on who is buying it. Federal and defense engagements carry procurement, compliance, security review, and stakeholder alignment that a mid-market engagement does not. The multiplier prices the coordination and accountability surface, not the analysis.
Frequently Asked Questions
Specific intelligence regarding security clearance, deliverable ownership, platform telemetry, and execution cadence.
No. It is CYBAIR on the vendor AI workloads in scope, plus an engagement that turns scores into a risk and attestation plan. Questionnaires are inputs at best.
Have unique mission constraints?
Our engineering leadership reviews technical architectures and custom scoping directly under NDA.
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