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AI readiness

Is your business ready for AI?

11 questions in the five areas an AI readiness assessment looks at. You see where each one stands straight away, and you do not need to give a name or an email address.

The questions

The questions follow the AI Readiness Assessment: the work your people do, the AI tools already in use, your data and permissions, policy and risk, and who owns AI in the business.

There is no overall score. The result shows where each area stands and what to do first, as a starting point for a conversation rather than a verdict on the business. Your answers stay in your browser, and nothing reaches us unless you send us a message below.

The work

3 questions

Can you name the tasks that take your team the most time each week?
What to do

Start by listing them. Until the work is mapped, nobody can say where AI would recover time and where it would not.

Is some of that work rule-based and high in volume, such as data entry, sorting email or producing the same document again and again?
What to do

Rule-based volume work is where automation helps most. Work where people are the point is protected, and expert work is where AI can prepare material for a person to decide.

Are those processes written down, so everyone does them the same way?
What to do

A process is standardised before it is automated, and work that should not exist is removed first.

Tools already in use

2 questions

Do you know which AI tools your staff already use for work, including free ones in the browser?
What to do

Find out first, from a short staff survey or browser discovery. Staff may already be using AI tools that nobody has approved.

Have you decided which AI tools staff may use for work?
What to do

Agree which tools are approved, so staff have a safe place to use AI instead of their own accounts.

Data and permissions

2 questions

Do you know who can see what in Microsoft 365 or your shared files, and have over-shared sites and folders been put right?
What to do

Copilot and similar tools can surface anything a person is allowed to open. The permissions are checked and over-sharing fixed before AI is switched on.

Do you know where your sensitive data is kept: client files, HR, finance and personal data?
What to do

Data you are obliged to protect has to be found before deciding which AI tools may go near it.

Policy and risk

2 questions

Do you have a written AI use policy that staff have read?
What to do

An AI use policy says which tools are allowed and what may be put into them. We write them with clients, and your adviser confirms the data protection position.

Have you checked what the supplier terms of each AI tool in use say about the data put into it?
What to do

A tool's terms say where the data you type into it goes and what it may be used for. Check them for every tool in use.

Ownership

2 questions

Is one person responsible for AI in the business, with time to lead it?
What to do

Name an owner. The assessment starts with the leader who sets strategy, and each step on a roadmap needs someone to see it through.

Do you know what you would measure to tell whether an AI tool had worked?
What to do

Decide the measure before the tool. An estimate is a starting point; a pilot measures.

Ask about an AI readiness assessment

Call 01642 661888 and a person answers within three rings, or send us a message. Once you have your result, it goes into the message so we can start from it. Read it, change it or delete it before you send.

The assessment maps the work before anything is automated, finds the AI tools already in use, checks your Microsoft 365 permissions and ends with a written report and a prioritised roadmap. More on the AI Readiness Assessment. We call back within the hour in office hours.

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