Here is the honest situation. Here is the honest situation. The AI-assisted development environment in most enterprises is a stack of three or four AI providers running alongside two or three cloud providers, with identity, secrets, DLP, endpoint tooling and audit provided by yet other vendors. Each piece was chosen for a good reason on its own day, and the resulting architecture was never designed by any one team. The consequence is that security posture depends on cross-vendor integration points nobody quite owns, governance drifts per vendor whenever a product releases, lock-in accumulates on two axes at once (infrastructure and model) without either being visible, portability is claimed on slides but never rehearsed, the bill grows for reasons finance cannot see, and every executive question about why this architecture exists is answered under time pressure. The fix is not a new tool, it is architecture: an honest current-state diagram, cross-vendor seams treated as first-class design objects, policy written in outcomes and enforced above the vendor layer, lock-in assessed at both layers with a mitigation programme, portability rehearsed on a schedule, cost tagged and routed at the platform level, and one-page decision records that let leadership read the case without asking the architect.
This Kit removes the guesswork. It is enterprise architecture for the heterogeneous AI development environment written as adopt-ready controls you personalize in a weekend, with the evidence a reviewer examines.
What you get, the moment you buy
Grounded in current enterprise-architecture practice for multi-model, multi-cloud AI environments. Editable Word and Excel files.
What one control looks like
This is the opening control, where the honest baseline is drawn. All 18 are built to this depth.
Why this is not another template pack
- The evidence is the point. A control you cannot evidence is a gap waiting to be found. This tells you what a review examines and where teams fall short, for every control.
- Tuned to the heterogeneous environment. Cross-vendor security integration, outcome-form governance, two-layer lock-in assessment, security-plane portability, per-call cost attribution and model-refresh change management are written in as controls, not left generic.
- Built on real practice, not one person's opinion, grounded in how multi-model AI dev environments actually work and where they fail.
- It compounds. This work shares its shape with cloud architecture, security architecture and portfolio management, so it feeds your wider enterprise architecture practice.
Who buys this
Enterprise architects, engineering directors and platform leads responsible for the AI-assisted development environment across products, plus the CIOs, CTOs and CISOs who own the executive case for its shape. Whether you are consolidating a proliferated environment or standing one up cleanly, you save weeks and walk in with the discovery, integration, governance, portability, cost and change controls structured.
Common questions
Is it really editable? Yes. Word and Excel files you own and adapt. No portal, no subscription.
Does it cover the full multi-model, multi-cloud shape? Yes. Discovery, cross-vendor integration, uniform governance, lock-in, portability, cost architecture, change management and decision records each have their own controls with their own evidence.
Is this tied to a specific cloud or model vendor? No. The controls are principle-level, integration points, outcome-form policy, layered enforcement, two-layer lock-in, contract-first portability, per-call attribution, model portability drills, so they apply whatever your current stack is.
What if it is not for me? A 30-day money-back guarantee.
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