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The Buyer's Scorecard: score your shortlist like we score ours
A one-sheet Excel scorecard with the six rubric criteria, fixed weights and a weighted total — built to be filled in during vendor demos and reference calls.
Done — your scorecard is ready.
Download the Scorecard (.xlsx)
Pair it with the published rubric and the 2026 rankings.
What's inside
- The six criteria that predict industrial-AI success, with fixed weights (time-to-value and ML explainability at 20% each)
- Score three vendors side-by-side, 1–5, with an automatic weighted total
- "What good looks like" guidance per criterion — the questions to ask in demos
- Red-flag list: the three answers that should end a vendor conversation