---
id: "action-demand-portability"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["00:18:40", "00:19:10"]
tags: ["procurement", "vendor-negotiation"]
related: ["concept-intelligence-portability"]
action: "Require AI vendors to provide mechanisms for exporting behavioral context and agent memory in enterprise contracts."
outcome: "Maintains leverage over AI vendors and preserves the option to switch foundation models or agent platforms in the future."
sources: ["s51-512k-leaked-code"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s51-512k-leaked-code"
originDay: 51
---
# Demand Intelligence Portability in Vendor Contracts

## Action

Require AI vendors to provide mechanisms for exporting **behavioral context and agent memory** in enterprise contracts.

## Outcome

Maintains leverage over AI vendors and preserves the option to switch foundation models or agent platforms in the future.

## Suggested Contract Clauses

- Right to export agent memory in a *machine-readable format* on demand.
- Vendor commits to support emerging standards (e.g., OpenMemory spec, EU AI Act portability mandates).
- Notice period for any unilateral lock-in changes (e.g., new proprietary formats like [[concept-cnw-zip-extensions|.cnw.zip]]).
- SLAs on export latency and completeness.

## Why Now

[[concept-intelligence-portability|Intelligence portability]] does not yet exist as a standard. Demanding it *contractually* is the only present-day mechanism — see [[open-question-portability-standards]].

## Pair With

- [[action-audit-lock-in]] — to identify which contracts most need this clause.