Use the questionnaire before contracting or production approval. A
score summarizes coverage; critical gaps, use-case risk, legal
requirements, and retained insurer accountability still govern the
decision.
CP-01Company and product
Describe the legal entity, ownership, financial condition,
insurance coverage, and operating history supporting this product.
Evidence requested Corporate profile, audited financials or
funding evidence, insurance certificates, operating history
CP-02Company and productCritical
Define the exact product, model providers, hosting arrangement,
deployment options, and functions included in the proposed
service.
Evidence requested Architecture overview, product
specification, model and hosting inventory
CP-03Company and product
Identify current insurance deployments comparable to our line of
business, jurisdiction, workflow, scale, and decision impact.
Evidence requested Reference architecture, anonymized case
examples, reference contacts where permitted
CP-04Company and productCritical
Disclose material litigation, regulatory actions, security
incidents, service failures, or public controversies from the past
five years.
Evidence requested Signed disclosure, incident summaries,
corrective-action evidence
CP-05Company and product
Provide the product roadmap and identify features, models, or
dependencies that may be deprecated or materially changed.
Evidence requested Roadmap, deprecation policy, release and
notice commitments
GA-01Governance and accountabilityCritical
Who is accountable for AI risk, product safety, security, privacy,
compliance, and customer escalation at the vendor?
Evidence requested Governance charter, role descriptions,
committee records, escalation contacts
GA-02Governance and accountability
How does the vendor classify AI use cases and scale review,
testing, approval, and monitoring to risk?
Evidence requested Risk-tiering methodology, approval
gates, completed example
GA-03Governance and accountability
What independent challenge or second-line review occurs before a
material model or product change is released?
Evidence requested Review procedure, independence criteria,
recent review record
GA-04Governance and accountabilityCritical
How are customer-specific requirements, prohibited uses, human
oversight, and approval conditions recorded and enforced?
Evidence requested Control configuration, customer policy
mapping, approval record
GA-05Governance and accountability
How are employees and contractors trained, screened, and held
accountable for handling AI systems and insurer data?
Evidence requested Training curriculum, completion records,
background-screening policy, code of conduct
DP-01Data and privacyCritical
List every data category the service collects, receives, derives,
generates, stores, logs, or transmits, including consumer and
claim data.
Evidence requested Data inventory, data-flow diagram,
field-level specification
DP-02Data and privacyCritical
Identify the legal and contractual basis for obtaining and using
each data source, including external consumer data and inferred
attributes.
Evidence requested Source register, licenses, consents,
privacy analysis, provenance records
DP-03Data and privacyCritical
Will insurer data, prompts, outputs, feedback, or metadata train
or improve any model available to other customers?
How are alerts investigated, prioritized, escalated, resolved, and
linked to changes, incidents, complaints, or consumer outcomes?
Evidence requested Alert workflow, severity matrix, case
samples, response service levels
OM-03Operations and monitoring
What service levels apply to support, defects, data issues, model
failures, security events, and regulatory requests?
Evidence requested Support SLA, escalation matrix,
regulatory-response process
OM-04Operations and monitoringCritical
Can the insurer pause, constrain, override, roll back, or disable
the service without vendor intervention when risk thresholds are
breached?
Evidence requested Kill-switch design, runbook, role
permissions, test record
OM-05Operations and monitoring
How will the vendor support insurer testing, parallel runs,
controlled pilots, post-deployment validation, and benefit
realization?
Evidence requested Implementation plan, test environment,
pilot method, measurement support
CA-01Compliance and auditCritical
How does the service support applicable insurance laws,
unfair-trade-practice requirements, anti-discrimination
obligations, privacy duties, record retention, and examinations?
Evidence requested Compliance mapping, legal analysis,
control matrix, jurisdictional configuration
CA-02Compliance and auditCritical
Will the vendor provide complete, timely, reproducible records and
knowledgeable personnel for insurer audits and regulatory
inquiries?
What liability, indemnity, warranty, insurance, service-credit,
and limitation-of-liability terms apply to AI errors, data events,
infringement, and noncompliance?
What advance notice, approval, objection, testing, and termination
rights apply to material changes in models, data, hosting,
subprocessors, or functionality?
Evidence requested Change and subprocessor clauses, notice
periods, objection and termination rights
CE-05Contracting and exitCritical
Can the insurer export its data, configuration, logs, evidence,
and records in usable formats and obtain verified deletion at
exit?