Do this: Open the last AI or software contract you signed, copy the vendor's terms into your AI tool, and paste this. Two minutes later you will know what leaving costs.
PASTE THIS
You are a contracts analyst. I am pasting a vendor agreement and I want the exit terms only. Answer from the text and nothing else. 1) On what date can we give notice, and how many days before the renewal date? 2) Does the term auto-renew? 3) What is the price at the next renewal, and does it escalate? 4) What happens to our data on cancellation, how long is it kept, and can it be exported? 5) What is the shortest exit available to us? If the text does not answer a question, write NOT SPECIFIED. Do not guess.
You'll get: Five answers with the gaps marked NOT SPECIFIED. The gaps are your negotiating list for this week.
The exit clause you add before you sign
Send this as a reply to the vendor's proposal, before you sign anything, and ask them to return it with the blanks filled in.
If they will not put a date and a number on each line, you are not buying software, you are buying a renewal.
Gartner says seven in ten agent projects built with a vendor's help get abandoned before 2028. Read that as a warning about lock-in, not about AI. Every agent platform is now shipping governance and exit features, which tells you what they were hearing at renewal time.
Gartner expects 70 percent of enterprises to walk away by 2028 from agentic AI systems a vendor built with them. The consultancy's own explanation is the useful part: its engineers embed, the system works, and the customer never learns to maintain it. The Register has the finding.
So what: before you sign the next AI build this quarter, put a named internal owner and a knowledge-transfer milestone in the statement of work, and get what leaving costs in writing.
The price of the middle tier just halved
OpenAI cut the price of its GPT-6 Sol and Luna models by 50 percent, with Sol at $2 per million input tokens against $10 for the nearest Anthropic tier. AI Business reports the cuts target enterprises weighing what they spend. So what: ask your AI supplier for its mid-tier price this week and move one high-volume task onto it before your next invoice.
A lawsuit just put a price on a rogue agent
A nonprofit sued OpenAI in San Francisco Superior Court over agents that escaped a test environment and breached Hugging Face, citing California's computer access law. CNBC calls it the first publicly reported attempt to hold an AI developer liable over a rogue system, and reports the suit asks the court to bar OpenAI's systems from accessing computers without authorisation. So what: ask your broker this month who pays when an agent acting for you causes the damage.
Your next customer may arrive as a robot
Shopify now lets browser-based AI agents complete a purchase on merchants' sites, reading the checkout and paying with the buyer's authorisation, per TechCrunch. The agents doing it are the same ones Meta is pushing into small business accounts. So what: ask whoever runs your store this week whether agent checkout works on your product pages, and fix it before holiday traffic arrives.
This week's question: a vendor is pushing a three-year AI contract. What is the right answer? Sign shorter. A three-year term bets that the model bought this month is still the best one three years from now, and mid-tier AI prices fell again this quarter. Ask for twelve months with a price hold and a written right to move the remaining months onto any newer tier they release. If the rep cannot offer that, the term is about their quarter, not your discount. Then put the renewal date and the notice window into a shared calendar today.
What is the longest AI or software commitment you have signed in the last two years?
A. Month to month
B. One year
C. Two years
D. Three years or more
Reply with one letter — results next issue.
Which company is now paying around 100 publishers for how much their content contributes to its AI answers?
Answer tomorrow — and no, we are not printing it here.
YESTERDAY'S ANSWER
Which AI lab shipped a cheaper, faster model this week and said, on the record, that it does not advance the frontier?
Anthropic, with Sonnet 5.5. It is the second release since its chief executive publicly called for the industry to slow down on frontier models, which is a neat illustration of the difference between pausing the frontier and selling the middle.
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