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The documents we work from, yours to use.

Checklists, scorecards and references from our own desk: placing AI workloads, grading datacenter deals, governing AI, planning around equipment lead times and spotting buyers early. Each one answers a question on paper before it reaches a meeting.

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Drawing: the resource set Five working documents side by side: a placement checklist, a deal prequal scorecard, a governance starter kit, a long-lead equipment calendar and a buying-signals guide. Each routes down to one box: your next decision. Summit Logic Resource set Dwg SL-0017 Sheet 1 of 1 Rev A Illustrative 1 Working documents Checklist Scorecard Starter kit Calendar Signals 2 Five questions Four tests Inventory, tiers Lead times Five families Enterprise IT Equipment finance Lenders, finance Datacenters Vendors, lenders 3 Next step Your next decision Answered on paper first
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Five working documents

Each is written for one kind of reader and leads to one kind of work. Use them on your own; call us when the answers don't settle it.

  1. Enterprise IT

    AI Workload Placement Checklist

    Two-page PDF

    The five questions to answer before anyone buys GPUs or signs a cloud commitment, and the matrix every placement is weighed on.

    • The five questions, with space to answer them for one workload
    • What each answer tends to decide
    • A blank placement matrix: on-prem, cloud and hybrid
    Get the checklist

    Leads to Placement Assessment

  2. Equipment Finance

    Datacenter Deal Prequal Scorecard

    PDF scorecard

    Twenty questions across our four tests, installed, powered, paid and recovered, with a Green, Yellow or Red grade on each and the rules that turn the grades into a decision.

    • Seven knockouts to ask in the first five minutes
    • Twenty questions with a strong answer and a red flag for each
    • Scoring rules and the documents a lender will ask for
    Get the scorecard

    Leads to Equipment Finance

  3. Lenders and finance teams

    AI Governance Starter Kit

    Spreadsheet and a short guide

    An AI inventory register, a use-case risk-tier sheet and an acceptable-use policy outline, built for the automated-decision rules that take effect in Colorado and California on January 1, 2027.

    • Inventory register with the fields examiners and counsel ask for
    • Six-factor risk-tier sheet with the review each tier needs
    • Acceptable-use policy outline, section by section
    Get the starter kit

    Leads to Governance & Risk

  4. Datacenters

    Long-Lead Equipment Calendar

    One-page PDF, refreshed quarterly

    Reported lead times for transformers, switchgear, generators, UPS and chillers, with the source for every figure, and what they mean for a build schedule and a loan.

    • Lead-time ranges by equipment class, each one cited
    • How to work order dates back from energization
    • Where deposits fall, and why lenders care
    Get the calendar

    Leads to Datacenters

  5. Equipment Finance and vendors

    12 Public Signals a Company Is About to Buy Compute

    Short guide

    The public signals that come before a compute purchase, grouped into five families, with what each one does and does not prove.

    • Twelve signals in five families
    • The common misreading of each one
    • Why a signal starts a conversation, not a conclusion
    Get the guide

    Leads to GTM Engineering

When the documents don't settle it

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