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A self-assessment

AI Readiness for Senior Leaders

Ten questions, about five minutes, and you get an honest score with a clear next step. No signup, no email, no follow-up sales pitch.

The questions favour leaders considering serious AI investment over those exploring out of curiosity. Score yourself based on how things actually stand today. A flattering result is no use to anyone.

Question 1

01 We can name three specific business problems AI could solve for us, and roughly what solving them is worth.

Question 2

02 We have at least one person internally who can tell hype from substance in vendor demos.

Question 3

03 We know which AI tools, copilots, agents, and MCP servers our team is already using, sanctioned or not.

Question 4

04 We have a written view on what we will not use AI for, and why.

Question 5

05 The data we'd need to build something differentiated is in a state we could actually use it.

Question 6

06 We run our own evaluations of AI outputs in our own context, rather than relying on vendor benchmarks or demo performance.

Question 7

07 Our board can tell the difference between a real AI initiative and a rebranded automation project.

Question 8

08 We have a clear policy on who can deploy AI agents that take actions in our systems (sending emails, executing code, accessing customer data), and how those actions get reviewed.

Question 9

09 We know what the EU AI Act and our sector's regulations require of us, and by when, including the Article 4 literacy obligation that takes effect August 2026.

Question 10

10 If we paused all AI experiments tomorrow, we know which ones we'd resume first and why.