A guide to choosing a shared AI platform as AI moves from experiments into business processes. It sets out six requirements: choosing the right model for each task, connecting AI to existing systems, building governance into the platform, giving staff a secure route to AI, controlling where data is processed, and staying flexible as the market changes. Each requirement comes with questions to ask and an explanation of how Advania ALT meets it through its four layers of Infrastructure, Security, Compliance and Capabilities. Examples include SSO via Entra ID, role-based access, usage logging, a choice of open, private and frontier models, and dedicated capacity with SLAs. It finishes with a 15-question checklist for vendor meetings.