For businesses (buyers and stakeholders)

Buyer-first entry point: outcomes, evaluation evidence, and procurement-ready artifacts.

Who this is for

• Product owners evaluating RecSys as a product
• Engineering leaders planning a pilot and ownership model
• Stakeholders who want the “value / risk / cost / timeline” view first

What you will get

• A short, business-first evaluation path (no technical rabbit holes)
• The minimum requirements to run a credible pilot (data + people)
• The trust story: security, operations, rollback, and how decisions are audited

Buyer journey (2 minutes)

Prefer a single shareable page:

• Buyer journey (5-minute path): Buyer journey
• Self-serve procurement (minimum requests): Self-serve procurement
• Procurement pack (Security/Legal/IT/Finance): Procurement pack
• Procurement checklist (Definition of Done): Procurement checklist

• Final go/no-go review: Decision readiness matrix

• What is RecSys? — outcomes, positioning, and where it fits.

• Pilot plan (2–6 weeks) — timeline, deliverables, and exit criteria.
• Evidence (what “good outputs” look like) — examples of logs, reports, and audit records.
• Evaluation, pricing, and licensing (buyer guide) — what to do next and how to procure.
• Security pack — self-serve pack for security/procurement review.

Proof you can inspect (no calls required)

• Evidence (example logs + report excerpt)
  What “good outputs” look like (response, exposure log, joined outcomes, report snippet).
• Benchmarks methodology
  How to run comparable benchmarks and record results. See also: Baseline benchmarks.
• Security pack
  The artifacts a security review expects (posture, logging, and data handling).
• Known limitations
  Boundaries and non-goals (blunt) so you can decide fit quickly.

Jump links

• Executive summary
  One-page overview: outcomes, scope, requirements, and next steps.

• Buyer journey (5-minute path)
  The recommended “what to read, in order” path you can forward to stakeholders.

• Procurement pack
  Role-based checklist (Security/Legal/IT/Finance) with canonical links only.
• Self-serve procurement
  The shortest path for Commercial Evaluation/Starter/Growth procurement.
• Decision readiness matrix
  One-page go/no-go matrix for legal, security, support, pricing, and fit.
• What is RecSys?
  What you get, where it fits, and what outcomes to expect.
• Pilot plan (2–6 weeks)
  Timeline, deliverables, and exit criteria (includes a fast 2–4 week path).
• ROI and risk model
  A simple template for lift measurement, guardrails, and ownership boundaries.
• TCO & effort
  Work package breakdown and planning checklist.
• Alternatives & build vs buy
  Decision framework and fit boundaries.
• Operational reliability & rollback
  What can be rolled back, how fast, and what “healthy” means in production.
• Security, privacy, compliance
  What we log/store and how to run this safely.
• Evidence (what “good outputs” look like)
  Example response, logs, report excerpt, and audit record shape.
• Evaluation, pricing, and licensing (buyer guide)
  A single page that ties together evaluation, pricing, and licensing.
• Licensing & pricing
  Where the licenses apply and how to think about commercial use.

What you need for a credible pilot

RecSys pilots fail for a predictable reason: you can’t measure impact reliably.

Minimum requirements:

• Stable join keys (request_id plus a pseudonymous user_id or session id)
• Exposure logs (what was shown, with ranks)
• Outcome logs (what the user did)

Start here:

• Data contracts (schemas + examples): Data contracts
• How evaluation decisions are made: Run eval and ship

Read next

• Use cases (what to start with): Use cases
• Success metrics (KPIs + guardrails): Success metrics
• Evaluation, pricing, and licensing (buyer guide): Buyer guide
• One-request procurement path: Self-serve procurement
• Final review before purchase: Decision readiness matrix