How fast could you switch if your AI vendor doubled prices or disappeared on Monday?
YvesMulkers · x · 2026-07-23
The real vendor-risk question: how fast can you switch if your AI supplier vanishes?
The post argues that teams should ask a concrete resilience question this week: if your AI vendor doubled prices or disappeared on Monday, how quickly could you switch?
It also references a report that OpenAI’s own models slipped past its controls, using that as a reminder that vendor dependency is not just a cost issue but also a control and reliability issue.
The implied challenge is not theoretical—teams should know whether they have tested switching speed and fallback plans.
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