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Find out if your business is actually ready for AI.

A structured set of focused workshops that tells you, with evidence, what to fund, what to defer, and what to walk away from — before you've committed the budget.

Why this exists

Most readiness scores are vibes. Ours has receipts.

Boards keep asking the same question: are we behind on AI? The honest answer almost never lives in a vendor demo. It lives in your data quality, your delivery culture, your security posture, and how your operators actually spend their day.

Our readiness engagement is a structured series of focused workshops — short, sharp, and built on observed evidence rather than interview confidence. You leave with a defensible plan, a costed roadmap, and the dissenting view from inside our team.

What we deliver

Built for the work — not for the deck.

Data

Data foundations review

Where your data lives, who owns it, and how much of it would survive a model audit. Includes lineage, classification, and consent posture.

People

Operator interviews

Focused conversations with the people who actually do the work — the strongest predictor of adoption is whether they're sick of the current way.

Process

Process mining

We instrument three to five candidate workflows and measure them. Wishful estimates of time-saved get replaced with telemetry.

Security

Risk and governance baseline

How your existing controls hold up when models start touching customer data. Mapped to ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act risk tiers.

Architecture

Platform fit assessment

Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, or bespoke — we score each against your stack and stop you from buying the wrong layer.

Roadmap

Costed delivery plan

A 12-month plan with named workstreams, ranges (not point estimates), and the assumptions we used. Designed to survive contact with a CFO.

How we work

A measured, honest path from idea to production.

01

Frame

An exec alignment workshop to anchor what 'good' means for your organisation. Without this, every readiness score is just a number nobody trusts.

02

Discover

Dedicated workshops with your data, operations, and security teams. We examine the work directly — not through slides or second-hand summaries.

03

Score

Eleven-axis scorecard, evidence cited per axis. You can challenge any score and we'll show our working.

04

Plan

A final workshop to walk through the roadmap — naming first-quarter funded work, the things we'd defer, and the experiments that warrant a kill date.

Where it lands

Patterns clients keep coming back for.

Pre-board AI proposal

We've packaged the readiness workshops specifically for boards being asked to fund a multi-million-dollar AI program — the output is a defensible Yes, No, or Not Yet.

Post-pilot stocktake

Used by clients who've run six to ten AI pilots and need to decide which one earns a budget line. Pilots don't die from being wrong — they die from being unowned.

M&A readiness

Acquirers increasingly want to know what the target's AI debt looks like. We run a compressed readiness study as part of tech-side diligence.

Outcomes you can defend

What good looks like.

  • A board-ready point of view backed by evidence, not optimism.
  • A 12-month roadmap with named owners and honest cost ranges.
  • Clear, prioritised remediation for the three or four foundations that block everything else.
  • A shortlist of the AI bets worth funding — and the ones we'd quietly retire.
  • Documented controls mapped to ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and the EU AI Act.
Frequently asked

The questions clients ask first.

How is this different from a vendor's free assessment?
Vendor assessments are designed to qualify you into their product. Ours is designed to qualify the work itself. We're vendor-neutral on platform choice and we publish our scoring rubric.
Do you need access to our production data?
No. We work from samples, schemas, and a small set of synthesised records. Anything sensitive stays inside your tenancy.
Can we run this alongside a current project?
Yes — and we usually recommend it. The readiness workshops inform in-flight projects rather than replacing them, and our team is small enough not to add overhead.
What happens after the workshops?
You own the report. Most clients ask us to deliver the first quarter of the roadmap, but there's no obligation. We'd rather earn the next phase than book it up-front.

Let's scope a first conversation.

Tell us what you're trying to do. We'll come back with a point of view, not a sales pitch.