Accelerate AI vendor procurement

Secure AI evaluation for regulated industries.

Pallas Exchange is a trusted AI sandbox from SAS Pallas Analytics that allows government agencies and regulated organizations to safely evaluate third-party ML and AI developers and enable secure model development and evaluation - without letting sensitive data leave the system.

Sensitive data never leaves the system Controlled vendor competitions Procurement-ready evidence

Active challenge

Detect prohibited items in CT luggage scans using hidden benchmark datasets in a secure compute environment.

Sandbox policy

No raw export · role-based access · activity logging · reproducible evaluation.

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Qualified vendors invited

97.3%

Top benchmark accuracy

18 days

From challenge launch to shortlist

Leaderboard preview

Objective model comparison across accuracy, robustness, and latency.

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Sentinel Vision Labs
Container v3.2 · explainability complete
97.3%
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Northbridge AI
Latency optimized · fairness check passed
96.8%
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Helios Secure ML
Adversarial resilience above threshold
95.9%
The problem

Valuable data exists. Safe external collaboration does not.

Government and regulated organizations have datasets that could dramatically improve AI systems, but they often cannot safely share that data with external vendors. The result is weaker model development, slower procurement, and less competition.

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Vendors train on inferior, stale data

Without controlled access to real operational datasets, ML vendors often train on synthetic, incomplete, or lower-value data.

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Procurement lacks objective testing

AI vendors are too often selected through proposals and demos instead of measurable performance on hidden benchmark datasets.

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Incumbents stay entrenched

When new entrants cannot access secure evaluation environments, agencies remain dependent on large established contractors by default.

Innovation becomes slow and expensive

Without a trusted AI sandbox, pilots take longer, comparisons are inconsistent, and teams spend more to get less meaningful progress.

Platform overview

Bring models to the data

Developers bring models to the data—allowing secure evaluation without exposing sensitive datasets. Pallas Exchange orchestrates secure model testing, benchmarking, and AI challenge workflows, allowing organizations to collaborate with third-party ML developers, compare model performance objectively, and accelerate procurement decisions—while maintaining full governance, auditability, and data protection.

What the platform enables

Secure model evaluationDevelopers bring models to the data and run evaluations inside governed compute environments without accessing or exporting sensitive datasets.
Structured AI challengesOrganizations define tasks, scoring criteria, and participation rules to objectively evaluate vendor models.
Automated benchmarkingThe platform measures performance across accuracy, bias, robustness, explainability, and operational efficiency.
Procurement IntelligenceResults feed into benchmarking dashboards and evaluation reports that support transparent vendor selection.
Continuous improvementAllow vendors to submit updated versions and re-run evaluation automatically. Organizations can re-evaluate updated models and track performance improvements over time.

Why buyers choose it

Pallas Exchange gives organizations a trusted AI sandbox where developers come to the data, models are evaluated in-place, and only approved outputs leave the environment. That makes innovation possible without weakening security boundaries.

  • Enable transparent procurement based on measured performance
  • Unlock access for smaller, more specialized AI startups
  • Reduce dependence on legacy contractors
  • Create repeatable competition infrastructure for future procurements
Interactive demo page

See how internal teams manage active AI challenges, vendor access, and procurement decisions in real time.

This sample dashboard shows how an agency or regulated organization can track participation, compare top-performing models, manage secure vendor access credentials, and turn evaluation outputs into procurement-ready decisions.

Selected challenge

CT Baggage Threat Detection

Agency challenge: detect prohibited items in CT luggage scans using hidden benchmark datasets inside a secure compute environment.

● Live Competition Duration: 21 days Approved Vendors: 18
18Approved vendors
14Model submissions this week
97.3%Top benchmark accuracy
82%Vendor participation rate

Participation rate by vendor cohort

Track which approved vendors are actively participating so teams can monitor challenge health and identify where support or extensions may be needed.

Prime vendors
92%
Startups
84%
Research labs
76%
New entrants
64%

Top-performing model metrics

Easy-to-read visualizations help technical, procurement, and oversight teams compare top models by accuracy and operating profile at a glance.

97.3%
Sentinel Vision
Best overall accuracy
96.8%
Northbridge AI
Lowest latency
95.9%
Helios Secure ML
Highest robustness

Leaderboard

Compare top submissions across accuracy, robustness, and latency in one audit-friendly leaderboard built for objective vendor evaluation.

Rank Vendor Accuracy Robustness Latency Status
1 Sentinel Vision Labs 97.3% 94.8% 132 ms Approved
2 Northbridge AI 96.8% 93.9% 118 ms Approved
3 Helios Secure ML 95.9% 96.1% 146 ms Approved
4 Aegis Compute 94.6% 92.3% 121 ms Review
How it works

Run secure ML vendor competitions.

Pallas Exchange provides a controlled AI evaluation platform for regulated organizations to assess third-party machine learning models against sensitive datasets without moving the data outside their secure environment. The platform orchestrates governed access, reproducible scoring, and benchmarking workflows that generate procurement-ready performance evidence.

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Govern and prepare evaluation datasets

Organizations register datasets inside their secure compute environment with version control, privacy safeguards, access governance, and full audit logging to ensure sensitive data remains protected while enabling controlled model evaluation.

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Define an AI evaluation challenge

Organizations publish a structured evaluation task, including the model objective, scoring metrics, approved submission formats, and participation timeline for vendors.

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Execute secure model evaluations

Developers submit models that run inside the governed evaluation environment. Models are tested against hidden datasets without exposing or exporting the underlying data.

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Benchmark vendors and support procurement

Automated evaluation generates performance leaderboards, benchmarking dashboards, validation documentation, and procurement-ready reports to support transparent vendor selection.

Capabilities

Everything needed to operate a trusted AI sandbox.

Pallas Exchange supports secure data access, model submission, evaluation, and repeatable vendor competitions in one navigable platform.

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Secure compute environment

Give vendors controlled access to sensitive datasets without permitting downloads, copying, or unmanaged external handling.

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Automated evaluation engine

Run standardized pipelines for accuracy tests, bias checks, robustness checks, adversarial testing, explainability metrics, and compute performance.

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Real-time leaderboards

Rank vendors objectively on hidden test datasets and show performance changes as improved models are submitted.

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Procurement-ready reports

Produce evaluation reports, benchmarking summaries, and model validation documentation that support faster procurement decisions.

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Continuous model improvement

Allow organizations to re-run evaluation automatically as developers upload updated model versions and improved architectures.

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Vendor competition infrastructure

Launch controlled competitions that help agencies discover high-performing vendors and broaden participation beyond incumbents.

Roadmap and use cases

Start with vendor competitions. Expand into secure collaboration.

Manage data access and sharing, control experimentation, and host internal and external model testing on an ongoing basis.

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Phase 1: Vendor competition platform

Government agencies launch secure model competitions to identify the best ML vendors through transparent leaderboards, performance benchmarking, and procurement-ready evaluation artifacts.

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Aviation security example

Run a challenge such as detecting prohibited items in CT luggage scans, where developers submit models and receive scores against hidden benchmark datasets.

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Phase 2: Secure data collaboration

Extend the platform to manage sensitive datasets, enable controlled experimentation, and host internal and external model testing on an ongoing basis.

Other regulated markets

Apply the same model to healthcare, critical infrastructure, defense, and other environments where sensitive data must stay protected while innovation continues.

Security and governance

Sensitive data never leaves the system.

Pallas Exchange is designed so developers access the environment, not the raw files. Only approved outputs are exported, preserving control while still enabling outside innovation.

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Access governance and protected data handling

Use role-based permissions, dataset version control, and complete audit trails to keep data controlled while letting approved vendors work in a governed sandbox.

Role-based access Audit logs Dataset version control
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Privacy-safe technical methods

Support privacy-preserving collaboration using secure enclaves, differential privacy, federated learning patterns, synthetic datasets, and controlled output review.

Secure enclaves Differential privacy Federated learning Synthetic datasets Controlled output review
Architecture

A five-layer platform for evaluation, competition, and collaboration.

The architecture is designed to support both the near-term competition product and the longer-term secure collaboration roadmap.

Platform layers

Data layerProtected datasets, metadata, lineage, and version control
Secure compute layerSandbox workspaces, container execution, secure notebooks
Evaluation layerAccuracy, fairness, robustness, adversarial and explainability testing
Competition layerChallenges, submissions, leaderboards, iteration workflows
Procurement layerDashboards, reports, vendor shortlists, validation artifacts

Strategic outcome

Pallas Exchange turns restricted datasets into a repeatable innovation and procurement system. Agencies can safely invite third-party ML developers into controlled environments, compare performance objectively, and build a more competitive AI ecosystem over time.

  • Create transparent vendor evaluation processes
  • Support real-time model updates and continuous improvement
  • Shorten vendor selection cycles dramatically
  • Lay the foundation for a future AI innovation marketplace
Our Mission

Open innovation. Protected data. Trusted AI evaluation.

Launch a secure challenge through a trusted sandbox, evaluate vendors on real performance, and build a repeatable path from restricted data to faster, more objective procurement.