The AI Readiness Assessment

AI doesn't fix chaos. It amplifies it. Point it at a clear process with good data and an accountable owner, and it makes that process faster. Point it at a messy one, and you get the same mess, faster.

So before choosing tools, find out where you really stand. This workbook asks the questions, scores your answers, and tells you where to start.

What's in it

• The Assessment: 30 plain-English statements in six areas: leadership and ownership, policy and governance, data, processes and friction, people and skills, and security and risk. Answer No, Started, Mostly or Yes. It takes about 20 minutes, and works best answered together as a leadership team.
• Your Results: an overall readiness score and level, a score for each area, a chart, and your five weakest answers, each with a practical first step.
• Friction Finder: list the processes that slow people down, score them, and see which to tackle first - with or without AI.
• Pilot Plan: take one process through simplify, automate, then AI, with an owner, a baseline and a measure of success agreed before you start.

Who it's for

Owners, CEOs and leadership teams who are being asked about AI, suspect their staff are already using it, and want a sensible place to start that isn't a vendor's demo.

If most of your answers are No, that isn't a reason to wait. It's your starting list, and working through it pays off whether or not you ever use an AI tool.

It builds on AI Readiness Isn't a Technology Question.

It's a single Excel file. It also opens in Google Sheets and Apple Numbers.