The AI Readiness Assessment is free and has two parts. First, eight questions score your business out of 100 on people, process, data and systems, and place it at one of three stages. Second, a thirty-minute review takes one process you name and puts a yearly cost on it, method shown, so you can check the number yourself.
Who this is for
You keep being told you are behind on AI and nobody has shown you what behind actually costs.
One process in your business is eating a team's week and you have never put a number on it.
A vendor has quoted you for automation and you want an independent view before you sign.
What you get
A list you can check you received.
- A readiness score out of 100 across People, Process, Data and Systems, with your stage: AI-Curious, AI-Ready or AI-Native.
- A yearly cost for the one process you named, with the working shown: volume, minutes per item, loaded hourly cost, downstream delay.
- A written sequence of what we would do first, second and third, and why in that order.
- A list of the things we would tell you not to do yet, with the reason for each.
- An in-house versus with-us comparison for the first item, so you can decide to do it without us.
How it runs
- 01
Answer eight questions about people, process, data and systems. You see your score before giving an email address.
Ninety seconds
- 02
Name one recurring process and send us whatever you have on volume and who does the work.
Ten minutes, before the review
- 03
Thirty minutes with us. We cost the process live and walk through the method as we go.
Thirty minutes
- 04
You receive the findings in writing: the cost, the sequence, the do-not-do-yet list and the comparison.
Within two working days
What we will not do in this programme
We do not send a proposal afterwards unless you ask for one. The findings are yours whether or not you ever hire us.
Why the first step is free
Most businesses of 50 to 500 people have been told they are behind on AI. Very few have been told what behind costs them in hours or money. That gap is the reason this programme exists, and it is the reason it has no fee. You cannot decide whether a fix is worth paying for until somebody has put a yearly number on the problem, and we would rather show you our method on one real process than describe it in a deck.
What the score tells you, and what it does not
The check asks eight questions and takes about ninety seconds. It scores you out of 100 across four foundations: People, Process, Data and Systems. It then places you at one of three stages, AI-Curious, AI-Ready or AI-Native. You see the score before you give us an email address.
Be clear about what the score is. It tells you where your weakest foundation is, which usually decides what you should fix first. It does not tell you what anything costs, and it is not a comparison against other businesses. We have no such comparison and would not publish one if we did.
The thirty minutes
Before the review you name one recurring process. Chasing overdue invoices, retyping supplier documents, sorting the support inbox, whatever eats the most of somebody’s week. You send us what you have on volume and who does the work. Rough figures are fine. We will show you where the roughness matters.
In the review itself we cost that process live. Volume per month, minutes per item, the loaded hourly cost of the people doing it, and the delay it causes downstream, which is the part most owners undercount. You watch the working, you correct our assumptions, and you leave with a yearly figure you can defend to your CFO because you built it with us.
We then put that process in a sequence with anything else we noticed, and we tell you which items we would not touch yet. Some processes are too irregular to automate well. Some are cheaper to fix with a settings change in software you already pay for. Some are not worth the review load they would leave behind. You get those verdicts in writing, with the reason for each.
Where this kind of review usually goes wrong
Free reviews go wrong in two predictable ways. The first is that they turn into a sales meeting by minute ten, and the reader learns nothing they can use. We guard against that with a rule we hold ourselves to: if we cannot name something worth doing in the first fifteen minutes, we say so and give you the other fifteen back.
The second is that the findings live in a slide deck the reader never opens again. Ours arrive as a short written document: the cost, the method, the sequence, the do-not-do-yet list, and an honest comparison of doing the first item in-house against doing it with us. That comparison includes the case where in-house wins, because sometimes it does.
How it ends
The assessment ends when you have the document. There is no follow-up sequence and no proposal unless you ask for one. Some people fix the first process themselves. Some come back for Workflow Automation on that one process. Some ask for the AI Strategy Roadmap because one costed process made them want the rest costed too. Any of those is a good outcome. So is doing nothing, if the number turned out to be small. A person still has to decide, and after this you decide with a figure in front of you rather than a feeling.
What usually comes next
Most people either fix the one process themselves, take Workflow Automation for that process, or ask for the AI Strategy Roadmap to cost everything else.
Next in the sequence: AI Strategy RoadmapWhere this programme applies
The one ask on this page
Ninety seconds now. Thirty minutes if it is worth it.
Take the check, see your score with no email asked for, and decide whether the thirty-minute review is worth your time. If you already know the process, skip the check and tell us.