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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

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

Question 2

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

Question 3

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

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

08We 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

09We know what the EU AI Act and our sector's regulations require of us, and by when.

Question 10

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