Technical note
What an AI contract must let people see: the five windows
Key takeaways
- Half the procurement standard — everything after signature — has no visibility today; window four creates it.
- Confidentiality protects techniques, never accountability: two columns, checkable by any legal office before signing.
- Each window publishes through existing channels and has a numerical baseline from the scorecard — adoption will be measurable window by window.
- The generic total-confidentiality clause is returned at the contracting gate.
- For agencies with progress in March's index, switching on the operations window is the lowest-cost, highest-signal move before the second edition.
Nothing that happens after an AI contract is signed is visible to anyone today — we measured it. What must be public at each moment of the contract's life, and exactly where the confidentiality line runs.
The full document is currently published in Spanish; an English edition is prepared when demand warrants it. The Spanish record carries the complete summary and contents.