AI Vendor Risk Assessment: Why We Shut It Down

We built an AI-powered vendor risk platform to automate 340 security questionnaires. Fourteen months later, we deprecated it entirely. Here's what we learned about when enterprise AI fails, and the hidden costs of automation theater. Full article: https://davidohnstad.net/ai-vendor-risk-assessment-deprecation/

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-02
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23892715
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Information and Cyber Security
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AI Vendor Risk Assessment: Why We Shut It Down

David Ohnstad
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AI Vendor Risk Assessment: Why We Shut It Down

David Ohnstad
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Abstract

We built an AI-powered vendor risk platform to automate 340 security questionnaires. Fourteen months later, we deprecated it entirely. Here's what we learned about when enterprise AI fails, and the hidden costs of automation theater. Full article: https://davidohnstad.net/ai-vendor-risk-assessment-deprecation/

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