The vendor register keeps the concentration story tied to the exact lane where AI supplier dependence is still weakening leverage.
| Operating cluster | Tier | Owner | Audience | Action | Concentration narrative | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI platform | LOCKED_IN | Chief Product Officer | Board technology committee | DIVERSIFY | One vendor is absorbing too much of the model-layer decision surface. | 86 |
| Cloud and infra | CONCENTRATED | Platform engineering lead | Board finance committee | RING_FENCE | Convenience is drifting into stack-level dependency. | 79 |
| Compliance and trust | WATCHLIST | Risk and compliance lead | Board risk committee | CONTAIN | Compliance packaging is reusable, but still too dependent on one external proof shape. | 68 |
| Data and ML ops | CONCENTRATED | Head of data | Board strategy committee | PORT | The estate can grow, but it cannot pivot cheaply enough yet. | 74 |
| Growth and revenue systems | WATCHLIST | Chief Revenue Officer | Board growth committee | NEGOTIATE | Commercial upside is real, but pricing leverage is uneven. | 71 |
| Executive intelligence | WATCHLIST | Principal operator | Board and investor audiences | ESCALATE | The strategy sounds diversified faster than the implementation proves it. | 65 |