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The Lock-In Risk of Closed AI Platforms: How to Assess Data Portability and Exit Cost
Closed AI platforms are quick to adopt, yet they let your data, integrations and work habits harden into an exit cost you cannot easily walk away from; recent surveys show 94% of enterprises worry about vendor lock-in and only 6% could switch cleanly. Using real survey and migration-cost data, this article covers the four layers of lock-in, exit-cost estimation, the EU Data Act's right to switch, and architectural de-risking, so you keep room to pivot before you ever adopt.