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AI Readiness Assessment

Take the free AI readiness assessment online: 20 questions, about ten minutes. You get a score, a section-by-section breakdown and what to do next, then download your own answers as a branded PDF or book a call. No email address required.

Questions
20
Scored out of
80
Email required
No

Most AI projects don’t fail on the technology. They fail on readiness.

The businesses that get value out of AI are not the ones with the best tools. They are the ones whose processes were already written down, whose data was already in one place, and who knew which number they were trying to move. The tool was never the hard part.

This is the same structure our consultants use on day one of a Discover engagement. Score it honestly: a low score is more useful than a flattering one, because it tells you where to start. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.

Take it now

Five sections, 20 statements, about ten minutes.

How to score

0Not at all
No, or we have never looked at this.
1Barely
One person knows. Nothing written down.
2Partly
True in some departments, not others.
3Mostly
True across the business, with gaps.
4Fully
Documented, current, and someone owns it.
01Data & systems0 / 4 answered

Whether the information an AI would need is reachable, or trapped in someone’s inbox.

  • Customer and enquiry records live in one system that everyone uses.

  • I could export the last twelve months of sales or jobs without asking anyone for help.

  • The same figure is not typed into two different systems by hand.

  • Our main tools can talk to each other, or we know which ones cannot.

02Process clarity0 / 4 answered

Whether the work is defined well enough to automate without automating a mess.

  • A new starter could follow our enquiry-to-invoice process from written instructions.

  • We know roughly how long each stage of that process takes.

  • We know how many enquiries we lose, and at which stage we lose them.

  • The exceptions are written down too, not just the happy path.

03People & skills0 / 4 answered

Whether anyone will actually use what gets built, and who owns it after launch.

  • Someone in the business would own an AI tool after it went live.

  • The team has used AI tools for real work, not just experiments.

  • Staff have been told what AI is and is not going to change about their jobs.

  • Leadership agrees on why we are doing this, not just that we should.

04Governance & risk0 / 4 answered

Whether you could answer a customer asking what happens to their data.

  • I could tell a customer where their data goes and who can see it.

  • We know which of our data could not legally be put into a public AI tool.

  • There is a rule about when a human must check an AI’s output.

  • If an automation failed quietly for a week, we would notice.

05Commercial focus0 / 4 answered

Whether you know which number this is supposed to move, and by how much.

  • There is one number we want AI to move, and we can name it.

  • We know what that number is worth per month in cash.

  • We have a budget in mind, rather than waiting for a quote to react to.

  • We would stop a project that was not moving the number.

Progress

0 / 20

What the score means

Four bands, four different first moves

0–24

Not yet

Buying AI now would automate a mess.

25–44

Foundations first

There is real opportunity, but it is behind a data or process gap.

45–64

Ready to pilot

You can run something real, provided you run one thing.

65–80

Ready to scale

Your constraint is sequencing and ownership, not capability.

Whatever you score, the honest next step is the same: work out the order of work before spending anything on building. That is what the retainer buys, and the prices are published rather than quoted on request.

Prefer paper?

The blank assessment as a five-page A4 PDF, for scoring by hand or handing round a management meeting.

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After you've scored it

Bring your totals to a free assessment call.

A short, no-obligation conversation about what you scored and what to do about it. You do not have to pick a tier to have it, and what comes out of it feeds Discover, so the first paid day starts from evidence rather than a blank sheet.

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