Your Complete AI Procurement Toolkit
From use case identification to vendor selection and implementation planning, Kowalah provides specialized tools and guidance to navigate the complex AI procurement landscape with confidence.
- AI-Specific Guidance
- Get contextual recommendations and answers tailored to enterprise AI procurement challenges, from evaluating specific vendors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to designing composable architectures that leverage multiple models based on use case requirements.
- AI Procurement Templates
- Access specialized templates for AI RFPs, technical requirements, proof of concept designs, and AI vendor evaluation frameworks.
- Technical-Business Alignment
- Bridge the knowledge gap between technical teams and business stakeholders with specialized AI communication tools.
- AI Implementation Guides
- Learn from case studies and playbooks of successful enterprise AI implementations across multiple industries and use cases.
- AI Risk Assessment
- Evaluate AI solutions across technical capabilities, data privacy, security, compliance, and ethical considerations.
- AI Governance Planning
- Develop comprehensive AI governance frameworks that address data management, model monitoring, and responsible AI practices.
Your Expert Guide Through AI Procurement
Navigating the AI vendor landscape shouldn't be overwhelming. Kowalah structures your AI procurement journey using a specialized six-stage framework, providing AI-specific guidance exactly when you need it.
Problem Identification
Define and validate the AI challenge you're trying to solve
Help me write a problem statement
Help me quantify the business impact
Help me gather internal feedback
Help me build a business case
For the CIO Navigating the AI Landscape
Let's be honest - most CIOs and IT leaders tasked with implementing AI across their organizations didn't train for this specific challenge. You're expected to evaluate complex AI technologies, bridge the communication gap between technical teams and business stakeholders, and make high-stakes decisions that could transform your entire organization.
You want to make the right choices, but the AI landscape is confusing and the risks are significant. Vendors all make similar claims about their AI capabilities, there's a shortage of internal AI expertise, and the fear of failed implementation can be paralyzing.
That's why 87% of AI projects never make it to production and 71% fail to deliver expected value. The risk of making a mistake often outweighs the potential benefits, and promising AI initiatives stall before delivering business impact.
Understanding Each Stage of Your Buying Journey
Problem Identification
Many AI initiatives start with vague aspirations to 'become AI-driven' without specific use cases. Without clearly defined problems AI can solve and measurable success criteria, it's difficult to justify investment or know which AI technology to evaluate.
Kowalah provides AI use case frameworks, ROI calculators specifically for AI technologies, and stakeholder alignment tools. We help you identify high-impact AI opportunities with clear metrics and build compelling business cases that secure executive buy-in.
Solution Exploration
The AI landscape is particularly confusing, with vendors making similar claims about machine learning, NLP, and generative AI capabilities. With limited AI expertise internally, it's difficult to distinguish between legitimate solutions and marketing hype around AI.
Our AI-specific evaluation framework helps you understand different technical approaches, assess the maturity of AI solutions, and build a vendor shortlist based on your specific use case. We provide specialized templates for AI technology assessment and build vs. buy analysis for AI capabilities.
Requirements Gathering
AI requirements differ significantly from traditional software. Without specialized knowledge, organizations often miss critical requirements around data quality, model training, governance, and technical integration. This leads to implementation surprises and failed AI projects.
Kowalah provides AI-specific requirements templates covering data, model performance, explainability, governance, and technical integration. Our specialized workshop guides help align technical and business stakeholders on realistic expectations and necessary capabilities.
Supplier Selection
Evaluating AI vendors requires specialized knowledge. Vendors demonstrate impressive capabilities, but can they deliver in your specific environment with your data? Without the right evaluation framework, organizations struggle to separate AI reality from demos designed to impress.
We provide AI-specific RFP templates, technical evaluation frameworks, and proof-of-concept designs that reveal real capabilities. Our vendor meeting guides ensure you ask the right technical questions about data requirements, model training, accuracy metrics, and integration challenges.
Validation
AI solutions that work perfectly in demos often fail in real-world implementations. Without proper validation, organizations discover too late that their data quality is insufficient, integration is more complex than expected, or ongoing maintenance costs are prohibitive.
Our AI validation tools include proof-of-concept frameworks specifically designed to test with your actual data, AI-specific reference questions, comprehensive risk assessment tools, and TCO calculators that account for data preparation, model training, and ongoing maintenance costs.
Consensus
AI projects face unique resistance: executives fear the hype cycle, security teams worry about new threats, legal raises compliance concerns, and technical teams question integration complexity. With these diverse objections, the safest option often becomes not implementing AI at all.
Kowalah provides executive-ready AI business cases, governance frameworks that address security and compliance concerns, and implementation roadmaps that demonstrate a thoughtful approach to AI adoption. Our specialized tools help you build cross-functional consensus and overcome the 'no decision' roadblock.
Ready to navigate the AI procurement landscape with confidence? Kowalah helps you identify viable AI use cases, evaluate vendors, and build organizational consensus around AI implementation.
Begin Your AI Procurement Journey