{"id":225451,"date":"2026-06-03T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/what-makes-ai-vendor-deals-different-and-why-your-standard-saas-playbook-wont-cut-it-ward-and-smith-p-a\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:30:13","slug":"what-makes-ai-vendor-deals-different-and-why-your-standard-saas-playbook-wont-cut-it-ward-and-smith-p-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/what-makes-ai-vendor-deals-different-and-why-your-standard-saas-playbook-wont-cut-it-ward-and-smith-p-a\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes AI Vendor Deals Different \u2014 And Why Your Standard SaaS Playbook Won\u2019t Cut It | Ward and Smith, P.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/what-makes-ai-vendor-deals-different-4786244\/\">What Makes AI Vendor Deals Different \u2014 And Why Your Standard SaaS Playbook Won\u2019t Cut It | Ward and Smith, P.A.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/what-makes-ai-vendor-deals-different-4786244\/\">https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/what-makes-ai-vendor-deals-different-4786244\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 15:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jdsupra.com\">www.jdsupra.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI vendor transactions present distinct risks compared to traditional SaaS deals due to their unique characteristics and potential impacts on business processes.<\/li>\n<li>These risks include data use and model training issues, unpredictable AI outputs, rapid model iteration cycles, opacity of model behavior, intellectual property concerns, data privacy challenges, and increasing regulatory scrutiny.<\/li>\n<li>Counsel must understand the specific category of AI tool being used, as this significantly affects contracting considerations such as data exposure, training restrictions, output ownership, and model control.<\/li>\n<li>Different deployment models influence risk profiles, compliance requirements, and liability allocations.<\/li>\n<li>Each AI category affects five key contracting dimensions: data exposure, model control, auditability, explainability, and the allocation of responsibility for the outputs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Makes AI Vendor Deals Different \u2014 And Why Your Standard SaaS Playbook Won\u2019t Cut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/jdsupra-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/profile-images\/og.15638_3011.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225453,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225451\/revisions\/225453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}