An AI programme is only as strong as its weakest foundation. The audit gives your leadership team an evidence-based picture of your readiness and a prioritised list of the opportunities worth pursuing first.
Readiness tends to fail at whichever point is weakest, so we look at all five together rather than in isolation.
A readiness score shows what needs attention. Pairing it with a value map shows which of those improvements will pay back soonest, which is usually what a leadership team needs before it can act with confidence.
In our experience, some of the most valuable opportunities are modest ones. A reporting process that takes a finance team two days each month, or a recruitment step that depends on copying information between systems, can return more than an ambitious chatbot.
If you would like a sense of where you stand before speaking to us, our AI Readiness Diagnostic takes about five minutes and uses the same five dimensions. The full audit goes much further, with interviews, a review of your systems, and recommendations specific to your organisation.
TAKE THE AI READINESS DIAGNOSTIC +The diagnostic is a self-assessment that gives you a quick, scored view. The audit is carried out by our team, draws on interviews and a review of your systems and data, and ends with recommendations specific to your business.
We need enough visibility to understand how data and work move through the business. We agree the scope and any access requirements with you before we start, and we work within your security policies.
Only where that makes sense. We often recommend fixing a process or making better use of the tools you already pay for before adding anything new.
You can act on the recommendations with your own team, or we can help through a transformation programme, a custom build, or ongoing support as your outsourced Chief AI Officer. The findings are yours either way.
A defined programme to set your AI strategy and lead the change across operations, marketing, and HR, from the first plan to new ways of working that last.
EXPLORE THE SERVICE +Senior, ongoing AI leadership for organisations that need the judgement of a Chief AI Officer without making a full-time appointment. We help you decide what to build, buy, fix, and ignore, and we stay close enough to see those decisions through.
EXPLORE THE SERVICE +Share a little about your organisation and what you are working on. One of us will reply personally and suggest a sensible first step, even if that step does not involve us.