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Do you know what almost every business in the world has in common, from the likes of Walmart, Amazon, and Samsung, to the many establishments (like yours) that have made Oneonta their home? There are actually two things: one, they all use technology in some way to enable their operations, and second, this technology can sometimes stop working.
Most business owners assume that tighter security requires a slower user experience. They accept friction as the price of safety.
This mindset creates a dangerous paradox: when security is too difficult to use, your team becomes less secure. If logging in requires three different devices and ten minutes, employees will work around you. To eliminate this invisible productivity and security leak, you must remove friction.
Be honest… how often have you thought about negotiating your IT contract with your provider? Many don’t, and as a result, their businesses are susceptible to slow response times, hidden fees, and set lists of vendors.
This isn’t sustainable. A real partnership is, and is established through a balanced contract that promotes proactivity and accountability. Let’s talk about what goes into these types of contracts.
How many vendors and subscriptions does your business rely on to function day to day?
Now, to ask a question that hopefully has (but very easily doesn’t have) the same answer: How many vendors and subscriptions does your business currently pay for?
Unfortunately, for most small and medium-sized businesses, these answers can vary widely, which often creates confusion and leads to wasted capital. Let’s talk about a simple and reliable way to help align the answers to these two key questions: vendor management.
How much of every week do you, or any of your employees, spend seeking out the information needed to get the job done… or trying to, at least, in between all the diversions and distractions. How often have you trawled through your digital storage, only to lose track of your progress when yet another chat notification drags your attention away from… what were you working on again?
OpenAI put out a new document this month. They're calling it the Frontier Governance Framework. It's their pitch for how they'll evaluate and constrain their most powerful models before those models get out into the world. It dropped within days of their 2026 election safety plan.
And it only binds OpenAI. Not Anthropic, not Google, nobody. None of them have to line up, and none of them are required by law to write any of this in the first place. Worse, a company policy lasts exactly as long as the people running the company want it to. New board, new chair, new priorities, and the same document quietly becomes a memo nobody opens. That's not a knock on the current team. It's just what a voluntary commitment is.
