The 43-page guide gives buyers the questions, the evidence standards and the checklist for evaluating AI platforms and agent governance, with no email wall
Handvantage, the boutique consultancy for AI security and AI governance, has published the Agentic AI Procurement Handbook: a 43-page, vendor-neutral guide to evaluating AI platforms and agent governance before signing anything. It is available at https://workspace.handvantage.com/handbook with no email wall. Organisations are being asked to buy AI platforms faster than they can evaluate them.
Procurement teams inherit questions that used to belong to security architects: where does our data go, who approves what an AI agent does, and what record exists afterwards. The handbook gives buyers a working method: the questions to ask, the evidence to request, and the difference between a claimed control and a demonstrated one. “Policy binders are no longer proof,” said Josh Olayemi, CISSP, CCSP, founder of Handvantage.
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“If a control cannot produce a record, it is not a control. We wrote the handbook we wished every buyer had before their first AI platform demo, and we took the email gate off because the questions matter more than the leads.” The handbook covers evaluation criteria for agentic AI platforms, governance and approval models, evidence and audit-trail expectations, and a procurement checklist mapped to the questions regulators and auditors ask. It is written for operators, security leaders and finance decision-makers rather than specialists.
Handvantage is a Canadian cybersecurity consultancy specialising in AI security, AI governance and OT/ICS security for regulated organisations across the US, Canada and the UK. The firm also operates SecVantages, a no-cost AI-governance assessment platform, and builds Vantage Workspace, a sovereign self-hosted AI workspace with governance and audit evidence built in. More at https://handvantage.com.
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