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Six frameworks tell you what to build

The public AI strategy frameworks from BCG, Gartner, Bain, McKinsey and NIST are widely circulated and broadly sound. Five are adoption frameworks; one is a governance framework. Not one of them scores the counterparty. One page on where EgD-GCF-001 sits against them, and how it pairs with the NIST AI RMF.

Document ID EgD-GCF-002 Key ID EgD-KEY-2026-07 Status positioning note, v1.0
FrameworkThe question it answersWhat it does not ask
Deploy, Reshape, Invent — BCGHow ambitious should each initiative be?Anything about the supplier
10-20-70 — BCGWhere the effort goes: 10% algorithms, 20% technology and data, 70% people and processAnything about the supplier
AI Opportunity Radar — GartnerWhich use cases, internal against customer-facing, everyday against game-changing?Anything about the supplier
AI-era Operating Model — BainHow must the organization be restructured?Anything about the supplier
Six Dimensions of Value Capture — McKinseyWhich internal capabilities must move together?Anything about the supplier
Govern, Map, Measure, Manage — NIST AI RMF 1.0What risk does the system pose, and who is accountable?What rights the buyer holds against the vendor

The omission they share

Five are consultancy publications, shaped legitimately to describe a problem whose resolution is an engagement; the sixth is a US federal standard. All six point inward. None poses the four questions that decide whether an AI amendment to an existing agreement is survivable. Who holds title to the artifacts derived from the buyer's data — embeddings, fine-tunes, extracted structure? Can the buyer extract everything, complete and timestamped, without the vendor's help? What does leaving cost, in money and in days? In which jurisdiction does inference run, and who can compel access there? NIST comes closest and still stops short: it governs the risk the system poses to and by the deploying organization, and is near-silent on the buyer's position across the table from the supplier — exactly where an incumbent renewal is won or lost, because the data is already resident, the switching cost is already sunk, and only the derived artifacts are new.

Where EgD-GCF-001 sits

The Global Compliance Framework Assessment does not compete with the six; it occupies the empty space. Eight sovereignty control domains scored 2 for evidenced, 1 for asserted, 0 for absent, a jurisdictional register anchored to the EU AI Act, the EU Data Act, GDPR and DORA, four veto conditions, and a sixteen-point sheet that yields a number before signature rather than a judgment after it. Domain SD-5, inference jurisdiction, is addressed by none of the six. Lead with the NIST pairing, because it is a standard rather than a sales asset: its Map function asks that context be established and risk prioritized, which is what a sovereignty scoring sheet is, and its Govern function asks for policy and accountability, which is what the four veto conditions are. A client committed to the AI RMF adopts this underneath it without abandoning anything.

You have the adoption side, and NIST gives you the risk side. Neither one scores the counterparty. This does, and it produces a number before you sign.

Sources — BCG, The Leader's Guide to Transforming with AI and the 10-20-70 ratio · Gartner, AI Opportunity Radar · NIST, AI RMF 1.0, NIST AI 100-1 and the AI RMF Core · EVEglyphDesign, EgD-GCF-001