See whether an AI vendor makes your team more capable.
An AI tool can get work done while leaving you dependent on its maker. Look closely at what your organization can understand, change and learn from the tool, and what it can take with it if it leaves. Use an evidence-backed review to see whether the vendor helps you build AI capability that carries into other tools and future work.
From Feedforward's Praxis. Created by Adam Davidson, Maddie Proctor, Erica Hackett and Jessica Johnston, Feedforward.
Use it on Praxis
This move runs as a ready-made skill in Praxis, Feedforward's skill library.
How it goes
What the AI will do
- Research the vendor and product using current documentation, outside coverage and any materials you provide, distinguishing verified facts from claims and gaps.
- Assess six dimensions: SEE, CHANGE, ADAPT, USE, LEARN and EXIT—what you can observe, shape, adapt, put to work, learn from and take with you.
- Explain the trade-offs, prepare questions for your team and the vendor, and update the affected findings when new answers arrive.
What to have ready
- The name of an AI-powered business software service, including the product, plan or module you want reviewed.
- Any vendor decks, demo notes, contracts or other materials you already have.
- Context about your organization's goals, existing tools and appetite for depending on a vendor.
Where you come in
- Confirm which product is being assessed and explain what matters for your organization.
- Review the findings, correct factual gaps and bring back vendor answers if you want a follow-up assessment.
- Weigh the trade-offs and make the decision about whether the tool fits your needs.
What you'll get
A sourced review with a six-dimension scorecard, a summary of what you gain and give up, strategic questions for your team, and prioritized questions for the vendor. The report comes in readable web and document formats and supports your decision about how the tool affects your organization's independent AI capability.
You're done when
A sourced review with a six-dimension scorecard, a summary of what you gain and give up, strategic questions for your team, and prioritized questions for the vendor. The report comes in readable web and document formats and supports your decision about how the tool affects your organization's independent AI capability.
*Praxis is available to Feedforward members.