The vendor says their agent is reliable. You're about to sign as if that's been verified.
Commission an independent CARA audit of any vendor's AI agent — before the contract, the diligence close, or the renewal. Their demo, tested by our evaluators, scored against the benchmark of their peers. With or without their cooperation.
of vendors claim agentic AI capability.
offer genuine agentic capability, per Gartner's analysts. The rest are rebranded automation with an agentic price tag.
Your procurement process was built to verify uptime, security, and financials. Nobody gave it a way to verify behavior. Until now.
How it works
- 01You name the target.
The vendor, and the workflows that matter to your business.
- 02We test.
Cooperatively under NDA where the vendor participates; black-box where they don't. We need the same access your users would have — nothing more.
- 03You negotiate from evidence.
The full CARA report, the score, the peer-benchmark position, and a procurement-ready summary: risks mapped to contract terms, SLAs worth demanding, and the questions to ask before signing.
What changes in your negotiation
A 38/100 safety dimension is a contract clause. A drift finding is an SLA. An abandonment rate is a price conversation. The audit typically costs less than one month of the contract it's testing.
"Vendor shall provide, or consent to the commissioning of, an independent behavioral reliability assessment of the proposed AI agent (e.g., a CARA audit or equivalent), covering task completion, consistency, tool use, safety, and evaluation infrastructure, conducted prior to contract execution."
For investors and acquirers
The same engagement, scoped for diligence: reliability risk quantified in the language of deal terms, delivered inside your timeline, quietly. Pairs with Ingenize's Technical Integrity Audit when you need the codebase examined too — one disclosure, two independent workstreams.
Procurement questions
No. Black-box testing uses only user-level access. Cooperative testing under NDA goes deeper and is usually in the vendor's interest — a strong score helps them close you.
We're routinely the most useful thing that happens to a good vendor's sales cycle. Weak vendors object to audits. That, too, is a finding.
Yes — we provide standard RFP language. This is where the category is heading; early buyers set the terms.