How long does the assessment take?

About three minutes. There are seven questions, each with four options, and no free text to write.

What do I get at the end?

An overall readiness score, a breakdown by category so you can see which areas are holding you back, and up to three starting points drawn from your weakest areas. A copy is emailed to you.

How is the readiness score calculated?

Each of the seven answers is worth 0, 33, 67 or 100. Your score is the average of the seven, shown as a percentage, and every dimension counts the same.

What do the readiness bands mean?

They are labels for the average score: Foundation Building Required below 30, Getting Started from 30, Progressing Well from 60 and AI-Ready from 85.

What if every area scores well?

A dimension at 60 or more gets no advice, because it is not what is holding you back. If all seven are at 60 or more, you get three next steps for extending what already works.

Why do you ask for my details?

So we can send you a copy of the result and follow up if you want to talk it through. We do not share your details, and you can ask us to delete them at any time.

Yes. There is no charge and no obligation to book anything afterwards.

Leaders and managers deciding what to do about AI in their organisation. You do not need a technical background, and the questions are about how your organisation works rather than what software it runs.

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AI readiness assessment: how ready is your organisation?

This AI readiness assessment is seven questions and about three minutes. You get a score by category, an honest read on where you actually stand, and up to three places we would start if you were our client.

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Question 1 of 7

Executive Alignment

How aligned is your leadership team on what AI is for?

How the AI readiness assessment works

The assessment asks one question in each of seven areas of readiness. Each question has four answers, ordered from least ready to most ready, and you pick the one closest to how your organisation works today. There are no trick questions and nothing to look up.

The seven dimensions it scores

Executive Alignment

How aligned is your leadership team on what AI is for?

Without an agreed purpose and a named owner, AI work depends on one enthusiast and stalls when they get busy.

Answers run from "Not discussed" to "Board-level commitment".

Everyday Use

How much does your team actually use AI in daily work?

Licences only earn their cost when people use them on real work every week.

Answers run from "Almost nobody" to "Part of how we work".

Capability

How confident is your team in getting good results from AI?

Confidence decides whether people keep going after a poor first answer or quietly stop.

Answers run from "Little confidence" to "Genuinely skilled".

Governance

What guidance exists on acceptable AI use?

Without a written rule, each person guesses what may go into a model, and they guess differently.

Answers run from "None" to "Governed and reviewed".

Use Cases

How clearly have you identified where AI should be applied?

An idea list does not survive a budget cycle. A shortlist with a value and an owner against each item does.

Answers run from "Not identified" to "Delivering".

Tooling and Access

What AI tooling does your team have access to?

Managed access to one platform keeps company information out of personal accounts.

Answers run from "Nothing provided" to "Integrated".

Data Foundations

How accessible is the information your AI would need to be useful?

An assistant that cannot reach your documents and systems can only help with generic work.

Answers run from "Scattered" to "Unified".

How the score works

Each answer is worth 0, 33, 67 or 100 points, from the first rung to the fourth. Your overall score is the plain average of the seven, shown as a whole-number percentage. Every dimension carries the same weight.

Under 30: Foundation Building Required
30 to under 60: Getting Started
60 to under 85: Progressing Well
85 or more: AI-Ready

The band is set on the average before it is rounded. It is a label for that average and nothing more: the breakdown by dimension is where the useful detail is.

The result also names up to three places to start. They come from your three lowest-scoring dimensions, lowest first. A dimension under 30 gets advice on getting started, and one from 30 to under 60 gets advice on building on what is there. A dimension at 60 or more gets none, because it is not what is holding you back. If every dimension is at 60 or more, you get three steps for extending what already works instead.

What a result looks like

This is not a real organisation. The answers are made up and run through the same scoring the live assessment uses. Leadership has agreed a direction and the information is well organised, but there is no rule on AI use yet and only a few people use it well.

Example result

38%

Getting Started

How it scored

Executive Alignment: Agreed direction: 67%
Data Foundations: Well organised: 67%
Everyday Use: A few enthusiasts: 33%
Capability: Basic familiarity: 33%
Use Cases: Exploring: 33%
Tooling and Access: Ad hoc licences: 33%
Governance: None: 0%

Where we would start

Write a short acceptable-use policy covering what may and may not be shared with a model, before usage spreads further
Close the gap between your enthusiasts and everyone else, which is usually a confidence problem rather than a tooling one
Move past prompting basics into the workflows specific to each team's real work

Your own result has the same breakdown, and a copy comes to you by email. If you want to go through it with someone, a free 30-minute call is enough. The assessment is also where our AI consulting work usually starts.

Common questions

How long does the assessment take?: About three minutes. There are seven questions, each with four options, and no free text to write.
What do I get at the end?: An overall readiness score, a breakdown by category so you can see which areas are holding you back, and up to three starting points drawn from your weakest areas. A copy is emailed to you.
How is the readiness score calculated?: Each of the seven answers is worth 0, 33, 67 or 100. Your score is the average of the seven, shown as a percentage, and every dimension counts the same.
What do the readiness bands mean?: They are labels for the average score: Foundation Building Required below 30, Getting Started from 30, Progressing Well from 60 and AI-Ready from 85.
What if every area scores well?: A dimension at 60 or more gets no advice, because it is not what is holding you back. If all seven are at 60 or more, you get three next steps for extending what already works.
Why do you ask for my details?: So we can send you a copy of the result and follow up if you want to talk it through. We do not share your details, and you can ask us to delete them at any time.
Is it really free?: Yes. There is no charge and no obligation to book anything afterwards.
Who is it for?: Leaders and managers deciding what to do about AI in their organisation. You do not need a technical background, and the questions are about how your organisation works rather than what software it runs.