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AI Readiness Assessment

Twenty-five questions that tell you whether one specific AI use case is ready to fund, across the business case, checking, data, ownership and risk.

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Most readiness assessments score your infrastructure and your “data maturity” in the abstract, and most companies come out as “partly ready”, which tells you nothing about what to do on Monday.

This one asks about a single AI use case you are thinking of funding. It has 25 questions in five areas, each scored 0, 1 or 2, and it ends with what to do at each score: fix something first, run a small pilot, or scale.

What it covers

  • The use case and its business case
  • How cheaply the output can be checked
  • Data and systems
  • People and ownership: who owns the outcome, the bill and the review
  • Governance and risk: what the system may touch, and what happens when it is wrong

It also lists the red flags that should stop a project whatever the score says.

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What is an AI readiness assessment?

A structured set of questions that shows whether your organization is prepared to get value from AI. This one assesses readiness for a single use case you have in mind, because a company is rarely ready or unready for AI in general.

Who should fill it in?

The person who would own the outcome, together with whoever owns the data and the budget. It takes about an hour, and the disagreements between those people are usually the most useful result.

Is it really free?

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