07 — Enterprise trust
Six topics that decide whether a creative pilot is allowed to touch production data. Each carries a procurement note: the question to put in writing, and the answer that should come back.
ModelArk publishes a European regional endpoint (EU West, Frankfurt) alongside its primary regions. The endpoint exists; the model availability within it does not cover the full catalogue, and availability changes as models are released.
BytePlus publishes its certification set: ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018 and 27701, SOC 2, CSA STAR and PCI DSS, with the scope of each certificate stated.
Standard contractual clauses and a data processing agreement form the transfer mechanism; the specific annexes depend on entity, region and data category.
Inputs are transmitted over TLS, logically isolated per project, deleted on request, and retained according to product configuration rather than a single global rule.
Seedance 2.x does not accept direct uploads of real human faces as references. Portrait-led work runs through authorised material libraries, and digital doubles require documented rights.
Keys are project-scoped, rate limits are published per model, long jobs run asynchronously with callbacks and an execution expiry, and content policy is applied at generation time.
Symmetry test
If a vendor cannot answer these in a sentence each, the pilot will fail in month two rather than week one.
1. Whose face is in the training and reference set? Likeness is the one asset category a marketing team cannot self-insure. Ask for the authorised library, the consent record and the takedown process.
2. Which model, in which region, at what rate? These three travel together. A model that is available in one region and rate-limited in another is a different product.
3. What does one approved asset cost, all in? Generation cost is the visible part. Reference preparation, human review and continuity repair are the rest of the bill, and they dominate at volume.
Start here
If you have ten minutes, take the evidence register. If you have a campaign, take the pilot scope.
Seventeen titles, each labelled with provenance, input and the capability it demonstrates.
Open the showcase ↗Bring a real brief — a launch, a localisation wave, a stack of end-cards — and we will cost it honestly.
Enterprise contact ↗Three weeks, a defined reference pack, and a scoring rubric agreed before the first generation.
Scope a pilot ↗