A practical framework for evaluating AI vendors and tools for a Hong Kong business.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
Choosing AI vendors and tools well saves cost and avoids lock-in. Here is a practical framework for a Hong Kong business.
The criteria that matter
Model choice (can you bring your own key?), data handling and residency, pricing model (per-seat vs usage), integration with your systems, and an audit trail.
A simple process
Define the use case and must-haves, shortlist tools by category, test against your data, and check the data terms before committing.
Avoiding lock-in
Prefer model-agnostic, bring-your-own-key tools so you can switch without re-platforming. osFoundry’s managed cloud pins data to the US, EU or Japan — it does not currently offer a Hong Kong managed region (its nearest managed region is Japan). To keep data in Hong Kong, the honest path is self-hosting osFoundry (BYO Cloud) inside a Hong Kong cloud region such as AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1, Microsoft Azure East Asia (Hong Kong SAR) or Google Cloud asia-east2 (Hong Kong), or running models locally on-device.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Hong Kong businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.