Local validation is still required: What evidence gap remains decisive before deployment?

Vendor benchmarks provide scoped evidence; materially different applicants and criteria require validation in the institution’s own context.

The question

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1. Local validation is still required. ✓

   A benchmark has limited scope; materially different users, data, and criteria require evidence addressing the institution’s actual use case.
2. The institution should prefer an open-source model.

   Model openness may change control and dependency considerations, but it does not substitute for validation against local conditions.
3. The vendor should provide a broader marketing warranty.

   A warranty may allocate responsibility, but it cannot demonstrate performance or limitations for the institution’s differing applicants and criteria.
4. The institution should rely on the vendor’s benchmark until incidents occur.

   Waiting for incidents leaves local performance and risk unknown; benchmark evidence does not establish suitability for a materially different deployment.

How to remember it

Vendor benchmarks provide scoped evidence; materially different applicants and criteria require validation in the institution’s own context.

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