AI Readiness Assessment
Find out what stands between you and AI in production.
A focused diagnostic for SMEs and scale-ups under pressure to deliver AI. We assess your use cases, data, architecture and governance — before you spend serious money building the wrong thing.
A clear read on what AI can actually do for your business
Most companies do not have an AI problem — they have a clarity problem. Use cases are vague, the data underneath is untested, governance is an afterthought, and pilots keep proving the same thing: a demo is not a product. The cost shows up as stalled initiatives, wasted spend and a board that is losing patience.
The AI Readiness Assessment is a focused diagnostic, not a sales pitch. Built on the discovery and onboarding approach used with enterprise AI customers, it examines what AI is genuinely worth building in your business, whether your foundations can support it, and gives you a prioritised roadmap you can act on — with or without us.
Use cases and value
Which AI use cases are actually worth building — scored by business value, feasibility and the data behind them.
Data readiness
Whether your data is structured, governed and trustworthy enough for AI to build on — and what to fix if not.
Architecture
How AI should fit your systems — retrieval, semantic context, integration points and where the boundaries belong.
Governance and risk
Provenance, permissions, confidence and auditability — what trusted AI requires before it touches real decisions.
Team and operating model
Who builds, who owns, and how AI work gets prioritised, evaluated and maintained after go-live.
What you get
Deliverables
Everything you need to make confident AI decisions — written down, prioritised, and tied to the outcomes that matter to your team and board.
- AI use-case inventory, scored and prioritised
- Data readiness assessment
- Target AI architecture recommendation
- Governance and risk review
- Build / buy / wait recommendations
- Team and operating model review
- 30/60/90-day implementation roadmap
- Executive summary for the board
The 30/60/90-day roadmap
The assessment ends with a sequenced plan, not a list of ideas. You will know which use case to build first, what your data and governance need before it ships, and what each step is worth.
Investment
Fixed and agreed up front, scoped to the size of your team and systems. No open-ended day rates.
How it works
Three steps, from first conversation to a roadmap you can act on
Discover
A structured discovery workshop with your leadership and teams to surface where AI could genuinely move the business.
Assess
We assess your data, architecture, governance and team against the use cases that matter — and score what is realistic now.
Roadmap
You receive a prioritised AI roadmap with clear recommendations you can act on — with or without us.
Want a sense of it first?
The free Data & AI Readiness Check is a softer way in. It scores your data foundations, AI readiness and governance in a few minutes and shows you where the biggest gaps are.
Take the Data & AI Readiness CheckWhere the assessment leads
The assessment is the starting point. From here you can ship the first build or bring in ongoing leadership.
AI Implementation Build
Take your highest-value use case from design to governed production in 30–90 days.
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