Survey the site before you build.

Fifteen questions across five dimensions. You get a readiness stage, your weakest dimension with the first move to fix it, and the engagement that fits. Sometimes the right engagement is none yet, and the survey will say so.

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A sample readiness profile, drawn as a sectionA sample readiness profile: five ruled tracks, one per dimension, each hatched to the score it reached out of one hundred. A, Ownership, 78; B, Workflows, 67; C, Data & tools, 44; D, People, 56; E, Governance, 22. The shortest run, Governance, is tagged as the weakest. The figures are illustrative, not a client record.Readiness profile, in sectionA · Ownership78B · Workflows67C · Data & tools44D · People56E · Governance22Weakest050100Score, percent of points availableA sample readiness profile, drawn as a sectionA sample readiness profile: five ruled tracks, one per dimension, each hatched to the score it reached out of one hundred. A, Ownership, 78; B, Workflows, 67; C, Data & tools, 44; D, People, 56; E, Governance, 22. The shortest run, Governance, is tagged as the weakest. The figures are illustrative, not a client record.Readiness profileA · Ownership78B · Workflows67C · Data & tools44D · People56E · Governance22Weakest050100Score, percent
Sample profile. Illustrative, not a client record.
SheetS-01AI Readiness Assessment
The fast versionFifteen questions, five dimensions, one recommended next step.
Who it is forAn owner, executive, or operations leader deciding what to do about AI in an organization that already exists.
Cost and timeAbout five minutes. Free. Runs in your browser; answers are not stored.
What you leave with
  • A readiness stage and a score for each of five dimensions
  • The weakest dimension, with the first move to fix it
  • A recommended next step you can disagree with, because the rule is printed

The survey.

Answer for the organization as it is today, not as you intend it to be next quarter. Each question offers four positions; pick the one that would still be true if a colleague checked. Nothing is sent anywhere, so there is no reason to flatter the sheet.

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Ownership

Whether a named person is accountable for AI decisions and has the authority to make them.

  1. 01Who is accountable for AI decisions in your organization?
  2. 02How does leadership discuss AI today?
  3. 03Is there budget for AI work this year?

Workflows

Whether the work is understood well enough to know what is worth changing.

  1. 04Can you name the recurring work that costs your team the most time?
  2. 05How well documented are those workflows?
  3. 06Has any AI-assisted workflow reached routine use?

Data & tools

Whether the information and approved tools exist for a system to do useful work safely.

  1. 07Could you hand over real examples of the work to test a system against?
  2. 08Which AI tools are approved for staff to use?
  3. 09Can your core systems exchange information without retyping?

People

Whether the team can use, question, and maintain what gets built.

  1. 10How would you describe your team’s hands-on AI skill?
  2. 11Has the team had role-specific AI training?
  3. 12If a system were built tomorrow, who would maintain it?

Governance

Whether review, risk, and measurement are decided before something goes wrong.

  1. 13Do you have a written AI use policy?
  2. 14Who reviews AI output before it reaches a customer, a record, or a decision?
  3. 15How do you measure whether an AI change worked?

15 of 15 still open.

What this sheet is not.

  1. A self-assessment, not an audit

    Nobody from Soxoa looked at your systems, your data, or your contracts. Every number on the result sheet is arithmetic on the answers you chose. Two people in the same organization can score it differently, and that disagreement is usually the most useful thing it produces.

  2. Not the written brief

    Soxoa can also prepare a written implementation assessment from public information about your organization. That is a different artifact, prepared for you and delivered by email, and it is not scored from this survey. Request the written brief.

  3. Not a scope, and not a price

    The recommendation names the engagement that fits the profile you entered. It does not scope the work or commit anyone to anything. Scope and price are agreed before work begins, after a conversation.

Bring the sheet to the call.

Thirty minutes with John Arndt. Bring your weakest dimension and the workflow behind it. He will tell you what he would mark up, what he would leave alone, and whether Soxoa is the right fit.