FIELD DIGEST

The Vantage Pilot.

Founder notes, buyer guides, primary sources, and the practical tests we use when an agentic AI claim needs to survive a procurement room. The archive is deliberately web-first: read it here, or follow new articles through RSS at /insights/rss.xml.

Latest · Issue 01

The Vantage Pilot, May 2026.

Issue 01 — the launch month. The audit-window argument for Annex IV, the ISO 42001 audit checklist, the B-to-A retrospective, and the briefings that frame why most agentic AI projects stall at the compliance review.

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CURRENT BUYER RESOURCES

Field guide

The Agentic AI Procurement Handbook.

A 43-page, vendor-neutral guide with sector dossiers, twelve buyer tests, a decision-rights map, and a bounded-pilot method.

Interactive tool

The Procurement Workbench.

Score a shortlist, map authority, design a pilot, save progress in your browser, and export a committee brief without creating an account.

CISO guide

Evaluate the operating evidence, not only the model.

A financial-services evaluation path through FCA expectations, ISO 42001, the EU AI Act, identity, authority, and the audit record.

RUN THE EVALUATION

Take the buyer tests into your next vendor demo.

The handbook explains the method. The Procurement Workbench turns it into a saved scorecard, decision-rights map, pilot design, and exportable committee brief.

Open the Procurement Workbench →

Or write to hello@handvantage.com directly.