Tier 1 · instant download
AI vendor assessment questionnaire
What to ask your own AI suppliers, and which answers should worry you.
What you get
- The questionnaire, ready to send
- Scoring guide
- The answers that should worry you, and why
- Cross-jurisdiction annex: EU, China, India, US and UK
Three ways to tell whether this applies to you.
If none of these describes your situation, this is the wrong product, and the catalog has nine others.
- You are buying AI from suppliers and your existing vendor form does not fit
- You need to know which answers are evasions rather than answers
- Procurement or security has asked you to assess an AI vendor
The file, before you buy it
Read from the artifact itself rather than described, so what is printed here and what arrives cannot drift apart.
Every column, as it ships
- 01
vendor_name - 02
assessment_date - 03
section - 04
section_name - 05
question_id - 06
question - 07
section_weight - 08
vendor_answer - 09
evidence_provided - 10
score_0_1_2 - 11
assessor_note
ai-vendor-assessment-questionnaire.html
11 sections, in the same download.
- How to run it
- Section A · Identity, role and legal footing
- Section B · Your data
- Section C · The model, and change
- Section D · Security
- Section E · AI-specific assurance
- Section F · Agents and authority
- Section G · Governance and commercial
- The scoring guide
- The answers that should worry you, collected
- Scope, and what this does not cover
ai-transparency-by-jurisdiction.html
5 sections, in the same download.
- The shape of the problem
- One screen
- Jurisdiction by jurisdiction
- What to build once
- Sources, and the honest status of each figure
Weighted, not just long
Anyone can send a vendor a long list. The weights are what stop one passing on the easy sections.
The bars are questions times weight, which is the score each section can actually move, so they rank differently from question count: Identity, role and legal footing has the most questions, 9, and sits on the lightest weight on the sheet. The heaviest sections are AI-specific assurance and Agents and authority, at 2 times the lightest weight, and the seven weights sum to 10.
- A · Identity, role and legal footing9 q ×1 = 9
- B · Your data7 q ×1.5 = 10.5
- C · The model, and change5 q ×1 = 5
- D · Security6 q ×1.5 = 9
- E · AI-specific assurance8 q ×2 = 16
- F · Agents and authority4 q ×2 = 8
- G · Governance and commercial4 q ×1 = 4
Each answer is scored 0, 1 or 2 against its section weight, and the sheet carries an evidence column beside every score, because an assessment nobody can source is an opinion.
SourceSection names, question counts and weights read from deliverables/T1-ASR-03/vendor-scoring-sheet.csv at build time.
Delivery and license
Stated here rather than in the terms, because these are the questions asked before a purchase and not after it.
- Delivery
- Immediate download.
- License
- Single organization, internal use, perpetual. Adapt it for your own systems freely. Do not resell it or publish it as your own.
HTML and CSV · 43 questions across seven weighted sections, with a scoring sheet · Version 1.0 · 21 September 2026
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Before you ask
These are the same strings this page puts in its structured data, so a person and an answer engine read identical text.
Can I buy this today?
Yes. It is $190, one payment, in USD, and the file downloads as soon as the payment clears.
What if I want the work done rather than the file?
The fixed-scope engagements on the services page cover the same ground with a person doing the work, at a published price and a fixed duration. Those are available now: a vendor AI assessment at $2,500 over three days is the smallest, an EU AI Act readiness assessment is $4,900 over one week, and an ISO/IEC 42001 gap assessment is $8,900 over two to three weeks.
What exactly is AI vendor assessment questionnaire?
What to ask your own AI suppliers, and which answers should worry you. It is a Tier 1 instant product from MetaMinds, listed at $190 in USD as a single payment. Tier 1 is the entry rung of a three-tier catalog: instant products from $99 to $890, fixed-scope engagements from $2,500 to $8,900, and scoped builds from $18,000.
What happens after I pay?
The download link and your invoice are emailed to you immediately, and the link stays good for 30 days and up to 20 downloads. Because a file you have already downloaded cannot be returned, the checkout asks you to confirm before paying that downloading ends your 14-day right to withdraw. That is Article 16(m) of the Consumer Rights Directive, and it is why the box is there and why it starts unticked.
It downloads the moment you pay.
No call, no scoping, no waiting. If you would rather a person did this work, the engagements on the services page cover the same ground at a fixed price and a fixed duration.