Are you ready for AI, or just ready to buy a tool?
AI readiness assessment
Ten questions. The score stays in this browser.
- Data
Answers stay in this browser until you ask for the PDF. This is a way to see the shape of the work, not an audit.
Data
How would you describe your current data management practices?
Where the record lives, and whether people trust it.
Ten questions. The score stays in this browser unless you ask for the PDF. It is a reading of data, process, enquiries and the team. It is not an audit.
A useful score usually leads to Copilot on a few real tasks, a front desk that answers from your own guides, or one SharePoint library people can search. The wider service is Automate.
AI readiness isn't really about AI
Many organisations focus on AI tools before addressing the underlying processes, data quality and information management challenges that determine whether those tools succeed.
The businesses seeing the greatest value from AI are usually those with clear processes, reliable data and strong ownership of key systems.
What the ten questions are really asking
Ten questions, grouped into five.
1
Data
Can someone find the right record without asking around?
2
Manual work
How many hours a week are still pure repetition?
3
What already runs
Is there a workflow, or only an email rule someone set in 2019?
4
Enquiries
What does a customer get when the office is shut?
5
The team
Will people use this on a Tuesday, or only in the demo?
The projects that follow a decent score are usually ordinary.
- Copilot on a few real tasks
- A front desk that answers from your own guides
- Documents that stop being retyped
- One SharePoint library people can search
If you already know which task hurts, the hours calculator is the next page.
What does the score actually measure?
Each answer is 1 to 4. Ten questions, so 40 is the maximum. Under 35% is Early: most of the repetition is still manual. Up to 65% is Some of it in place. Above that is Further along. The weakest spots are the questions that scored 3 or under.
Does a high score mean we should buy Copilot?
No. A high score means the basics are already there, so the next gain is one specific leak. A low score means one process with an owner, not a wider AI programme. A licence nobody opens is not adoption.
Why does having fewer systems score higher?
The systems question is marked the other way round. Every extra system is another place the same details get typed. Connecting ten tools is a bigger job than automating one clean process.