Procurement verification · For compliance officers
An honest evaluation matrix — vs. five AI-build platforms.
The matrix below scores CARI Forge against FORGE, ARCHFORGE, Opsera Forge, iTmethods Forge, and EC-Council ADG on five procurement-relevant criteria: a council of specialist advisors, a named human approver gate at every stage, recorded dissent preserved on the case file, EU AI Act Articles 12 / 14 readiness, and a scaffold-not-product honesty claim. Each cell carries a plain-language statement and a source link. Where a row 'unknown' appears, the row is deliberately empty — the gap is the verdict.
How is each tier scoped against the matrix above? Read the engagement tiers — every tier maps the same council, the same five-stage pipeline, and the same evidence package. What the matrix rows above mean for what is and isn’t delivered is spelled out at /why-this-is-a-scaffold.