How do I prevent AI vendor lock-in in a federal contract?

M-25-22's anti-lock-in posture favours portability: rights to your data and outputs, documented interfaces, the ability to export models or artifacts, and avoiding proprietary formats that trap you with one vendor. An independent, reproducible audit supports…

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Answer.

Federal directive · OMB M-25-22.

M-25-22's anti-lock-in posture favours portability: rights to your data and outputs, documented interfaces, the ability to export models or artifacts, and avoiding proprietary formats that trap you with one vendor. An independent, reproducible audit supports this because the evidence is vendor-neutral and recomputable by anyone. Planisphere emits a sha-pinned record a third party can verify without the vendor's cooperation; it measures behaviour and does not negotiate or certify the contract.

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OMB M-25-22 is a binding federal directive — a thing an agency or contractor MUST do, on a clock. Planisphere produces t…

Federal AI acquisition · anti-lock-in · performance/risk monitoring clauses.

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Start with the free sandbox. Planisphere measures model behaviour and emits a reproducible, sha-pinned record — it does not certify, file, or give legal advice.

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When OMB M-25-22 asks for proof, hand over records — not assurances.

record the duty · seal the receipt · verify offline

Planisphere records each duty event — an output marked, a disclosure shown, a review made — and seals it into a receipt that verifies offline against our published keys. You send hashes, never content. A record is evidence a third party can check; it is not a certification and not a legal determination.

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