Common questions about procurement, deployment and commercial terms.
No. AxiomCausal is positioned as an institutional product. We qualify procurement, deployment and implementation scope before launch. This is a deliberate commercial policy, not a limitation of the platform.
No. Commercial commitment is annual. Billing can be monthly within the annual contract, or annual upfront with a 10% discount. See the pricing page for the four packs.
Yes. AxiomCausal is not positioned as a lightweight self-serve tool. Implementation is part of a controlled deployment model and is scoped during the procurement review. Implementation fees range from €4,000 (Starter) to €25,000-40,000 (Sovereign).
Yes. The product is designed for sovereign deployment and local execution requirements. Three deployment models are supported: client datacenter (Docker Compose), private cloud dedicated (client-owned VPC), and air-gapped isolated network (signed offline release bundles). See sovereignty.
No public sandbox. Qualified prospects receive the one-page overview PDF, can request a 20-minute architectural discovery call, and receive a supervised demo inside the procurement review once the architectural fit is confirmed.
Organizations with institutional recovery needs, ERP-heavy operations, regulated constraints (GDPR, FADP, EU AI Act, EBA Guidelines), or strong sovereignty requirements. The product is designed for settings where every communication action that affects a natural person must be explainable at the level of its behavioral assumptions — not just its predictions.
Post-hoc methods (SHAP, LIME) produce feature-importance approximations over a model's output surface. They answer "which inputs contributed to this specific prediction?". The EBC framework answers a different question: "which named behavioral assumption justified treating this debtor this way?". The two are complementary, but only the second is sufficient for EU AI Act and EBA supervisory review. See the blog note on the topic.
Each EBC module carries an explicit validation status: Conceptual, Partially Validated, or Empirically Validated. At the time of writing, the seven modules specified in the preprint are marked Conceptual or Partially Validated. The three validation studies required to promote a module to Empirically Validated are documented in this blog note.