Harness Ownership and the Vendor Capture Trap: Why Governance Infrastructure Cannot Be Rented

When compute vendors offer governance as a service, they invert the 3BP principle that the harness is the product.

This paper presents a detailed examination of the challenges and solutions addressed by Vendor Capture Trap, providing actionable frameworks for organizations navigating the intersection of AI adoption and regulatory compliance.

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• Establishes a structured approach to governance ownership that aligns technical implementation with federal compliance requirements.
• Demonstrates how Vendor Capture Trap concepts translate directly into measurable engineering controls and audit artifacts.
• Provides implementation patterns validated against real-world deployment constraints in regulated environments.
• Identifies critical gaps in current approaches and proposes concrete architectural solutions backed by operational evidence.