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Start with four owners. An enterprise security review covers output ownership, data boundaries, fit with existing systems, and proof of approvals. Legal, security and IT, enterprise architecture, and ops and compliance need written answers before you approve a pilot.
Contract gates
Whitepaper 03: The Enterprise Trust Blueprint puts ownership first and data boundaries second, then integration and governance. This is the authors' judgment, with no deal data. They treat unclear ownership and shared-model training as irreversible risks, so settle both in signed terms before a pilot. Fixable system and access gaps can carry service levels and remedies.
Ask for output assignment to your brand, no vendor reuse or training license, and clear lines between platform IP and brand assets. The paper's summary of 2025 Copyright Office guidance says protection covers human-authored contributions; prompt-only output may lack protection. This summary is not legal advice.
Data and system boundaries
Test the paper's proposed guarantees in your pilot: control of outputs and brand inputs, private workspaces, and open-format export. Check separation between labels as well as between tenants. Exclude shared or third-party model training, cross-tenant access, silent marketing or benchmark reuse, and export lock-in. The paper reports no test results.
Architecture should show fit with PLM, ERP, PIM and DAM without a second source of truth. Treat connectors and open APIs as review questions rather than assumed product support.
Review checklist
The paper offers 18 checks in six groups, without scores:
Group | Written proof to seek
IP | Output assignment, no reuse or resale, platform IP boundary
Data | No training, isolation, retention, deletion, controller terms
Access | SSO or SAML, roles, current SOC 2 or ISO attestations, encryption at rest and in transit
Integration | Connectors or open API, standard exports, source-of-truth plan
Governance | Asset-level proposal and approval logs, supplier-release gates, IPTC tags
Exit | Paid pilot metrics, full export and deletion, transparent pricing
The paper maps access and audit controls to NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, privacy to GDPR, CCPA and SOC 2, and oversight and provenance to EU AI Act duties. It also cites New York synthetic-performer law and Amazon IPTC rules. Confirm applicability and current attestations rather than treating mappings as certification.
Buying criteria
The paper names three deciding checks: subprocessors, data residency and operational security. Get written answers. No supplied evidence confirms vendor regions, certifications or SSO support.
For your software shortlist, these criteria screen risk without ranking tools. The F* Word generates moodboards and creates tech-pack drafts in 8-10 minutes. Tech-pack release needs technical-designer review.
Sources: The F* Word; Whitepaper 03: The Enterprise Trust Blueprint.
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