AI readiness assessment
A paid, honest look at where AI would help your business, where it would not, and what would have to be true first. It ends in a written recommendation you can act on without me.
What this is
The assessment exists because the honest answer is often smaller than the pitch. Plenty of businesses do not need a model at all — they need the thing feeding the model to be fixed first, or they need a report nobody has built yet, or they need to stop doing a process rather than accelerate it.
It starts with how the work gets done now, in detail, from the people who do it. Then it looks at the data: where it lives, whether it is complete, whether two systems disagree about the same customer. Most AI disappointment traces back to that layer rather than to the model.
You end up with a ranked shortlist and a written recommendation, including the things I would not do and the reasons. It is deliberately useful on its own. If you take it to another firm, or your own team builds from it, the assessment still did its job.
Typically includes
- A walk through how the work actually gets done today
- Where your data lives, and what shape it is in
- A shortlist of candidates, ranked by payback and risk
- What to leave alone, and why
- A written recommendation, yours to keep
You probably need this when
You are being pitched AI from four directions and you cannot tell which pitches are real.
Questions
What people ask about this.
- Why pay for an assessment instead of a free consultation?
- A free consultation has to end in a sale to have been worth anyone's time, which quietly shapes what it recommends. A paid one can conclude that you should not buy anything, and that conclusion is sometimes the valuable one.
- What do I actually get at the end?
- A written recommendation: what is worth doing, in what order, what it depends on, and what to leave alone. Written so it stands on its own without me attached to it.
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Next step
Tell me where the business is losing time.
No pitch deck and no discovery-call funnel. Describe the bottleneck and I will tell you plainly whether it is worth building something for, and roughly what that would take.