Cooperative AI Institute
Vendor Risk Workspace

Build a defensible first-pass AI vendor review packet.

Seven focused modules for credit union and community financial institution teams evaluating AI vendors before procurement, pilot approval, or oversight review.

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Workspace module

AI Vendor Intake

AI use case

What workflow, decision, or member-facing process would the vendor support?

Data exposure

Member data, employee data, prompts, transcripts, documents, and retention.

Depth

Escalate

Why it exists

AI vendors are moving faster than legacy vendor questionnaires.

AI-enabled tools introduce questions that traditional vendor-management forms were not built to answer: model behavior, prompt/data handling, member impact, explainability, human review, automation boundaries, and operational monitoring.

Practical review support

The workspace gives risk, compliance, procurement, IT, and business teams a shared way to ask for evidence, score risk, document decisions, and escalate open issues.

What is included

Seven premium modules, organized as a single review flow.

1

Vendor Intake Form

Capture vendor basics, AI characteristics, business owner, use case, and member/data exposure.

2

AI Vendor Question Bank

Structured questions across data, security, model behavior, human controls, member impact, SLAs, subprocessors, incidents, and change management.

3

Evidence Request Checklist

Documents and proof points to request before pilot or procurement approval.

4

Risk Scoring Worksheet

Weighted review dimensions for comparing vendors and deciding review depth.

5

Procurement & Demo Agenda

Keep vendor demos focused on controls, edge cases, monitoring, and follow-ups.

6

Red-Flag Quick Screen

Identify issues that should pause a pilot or require deeper internal review.

7

Board / Risk Committee Memo

Plain-English structure for findings, residual risk, open issues, controls, and recommendations.

Use pattern

From first vendor conversation to oversight summary.

01

Review online first

Open the workspace in-browser before downloading or circulating local files.

02

Collect evidence

Use the checklist and question bank during procurement, demo, and follow-up conversations.

03

Score and escalate

Compare risk, flag gaps, and decide whether review can proceed or needs deeper evaluation.

04

Document the decision

Summarize findings for executives, risk committees, boards, or internal governance groups.

Who uses it

Built for the teams that actually run AI vendor review.

Vendor management

Standardize intake, evidence requests, and escalation criteria.

Compliance and risk

Translate AI-specific concerns into practical review questions and documentation.

IT and security

Clarify data flows, controls, incident handling, subprocessors, and operational resilience.

Executives and boards

Receive a clear summary of risks, controls, gaps, and recommended next steps.

Default delivery

Online workspace first.

The product is not positioned as a file bundle. Buyers get a browser-based workspace for viewing the modules, with optional editable materials when a team is ready to adapt them internally.

Professional boundary

Education and operational support.

Materials are practical training resources, not legal, regulatory, audit, compliance, employment, or vendor-approval advice. Institutions should adapt them through appropriate internal processes.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Do we have to download files?

No. The default experience is online workspace access. Optional PDF and editable Google Docs / Sheets versions are available for internal adaptation.

Can we share this internally?

The purchase includes internal-use access for your institution or team. It is not for public redistribution or resale.

Does this replace compliance or legal review?

No. It is professional education and operational review support. Your institution should adapt materials through appropriate internal stakeholders.

Do one-time buyers get updates?

The one-time purchase includes the current version and minor corrections. Ongoing quarterly updates will be part of membership access as it opens.

What is the refund policy?

Refunds are available within 7 days if there is a documented access or delivery issue and materials have not been substantially accessed or downloaded. See the Refund Policy.

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Use the seven-module workflow for the next AI vendor your team needs to evaluate.

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