Single AI Vendor Dependency: The Hidden $2M Risk in Your SaaS Stack
A lot of AI products look stable right up until the day they don’t. One model powers support triage, proposal drafting, onboarding flows, maybe even your customer-facing product. Then a provider changes policy, blocks a geography, tightens export controls, or suspends an account, and your “AI strategy” turns out to be a single external dependency with no fallback. That is not innovation. That is outsourced fragility.
The Anthropic Mythos 5 ban made this painfully clear. Overnight, vendor lock-in stopped being a procurement footnote and became a board-level risk conversation. If your SaaS workflow, internal automation, or shipped product depends on one AI API, you have built a failure point that can wipe out revenue, support operations, and customer trust faster than most outage playbooks can respond.