· 4 min · Risk
Procurement note
Red flags in AI pitches
Slide quality is not delivery quality. These flags kill deals in serious procurement rooms — or should.
Immediate discounts on the scorecard
- “We use the best model.” Which one, under which contract, with which data path?
- Unlimited accuracy claims. No eval set, no failure cases, no human-in-the-loop budget.
- Data story as a footnote. If residency and training policy appear only in appendix legalese, walk.
- No named engineers. Only “pods” and “delivery managers” until SOW signature.
Healthy signals
A thin demo on your data class. A cost model at steady state. A written kill-switch. A single owner for post-launch incidents.
What to do next
Have three pitches on the table? Open a match intake and we help score them on a common grid.
Procurement note. Part of Clutch Developer · Barcelona.