RedHub AI
How the gate works
How the AI Vendor Reliability & Spend-Justification Scorecard works
This tool grades each AI / SaaS vendor on reliability and whether the spend is justified at renewal. It scores 6 weighted controls into a 0–100 number — then a gate that can only make the verdict worse.
The 6 weighted controls
On a business-critical vendor, any reliability-lane signal — reliability, incident load, or support — at or below 1 forces DO NOT RENEW regardless of the justification score. You can't justify renewing a core dependency you can't rely on, no matter how good the price looks; the gate only ranks against renewal, it never grants it.
Why: This core LLM API is well-adopted, priced right, and has no easy alternative — the justification score is 75, which alone reads RENEW. But it's business-critical and its reliability signal is at 1: below the floor. The reliability-floor gate forces DO NOT RENEW. A 75 can't justify renewing a core dependency you can't rely on.
A high score didn’t save it. The score is context; the gate is the answer — and it names the one thing to fix first. A planning aid that grades the vendor relationship from your own inputs, not people. It applies no industry multiplier and is not financial or legal advice. Confirm renewal, contract, and budget decisions with the relevant owners.