A practical framework for evaluating AI vendors and tools for a Singapore business.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
Choosing AI vendors and tools well saves cost and avoids lock-in. Here is a practical framework for a Singapore business.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Data | Where does my data go? Can it stay in Singapore? |
| Model | Am I locked to one model, or can I bring my own key? |
| Audit | Does it produce an audit trail I can show a regulator? |
| Exit | Can I switch or leave without re-platforming? |
The questions that matter
Four questions cut through most vendor decisions: Where does my data go, and can it stay in Singapore? Am I locked to one AI model, or can I bring my own key? Does it produce an audit trail for the PDPA and (for finance) MAS expectations? And can I exit without re-platforming?
Beyond the demo
A polished demo tells you little about data handling, lock-in or exit. Ask for specifics on residency, model choice and contract terms, and prefer model-agnostic, self-hostable options for sensitive workloads.
Where osFoundry fits
osFoundry is a model-agnostic, bring-your-own-key (BYOK) AI orchestration platform — usage-based pricing with no per-seat fees, local-first and self-hostable, with per-region data pinning (US, EU or Japan) or deployment into your own cloud. Its model-agnostic, self-hostable design scores well on lock-in, residency and exit. osFoundry’s managed cloud pins data to the US, EU or Japan — it does not currently offer a Singapore managed region (its nearest managed region is Japan). For data that must stay in Singapore, the honest path is self-hosting osFoundry (BYO Cloud) inside a Singapore cloud region such as AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1, Microsoft Azure Southeast Asia (Singapore) or Google Cloud asia-southeast1 (Singapore), or running models locally on-device.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Singapore businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.