An AI readiness assessment is a paid, time-boxed review that answers one question before any money is committed to a build: which operating constraint is worth changing, and whether AI is a viable way to change it. Every opportunity ends on one of four answers, build, buy, connect or stop, and the first AI decision is not which tool to buy.
Most AI readiness assessments sold in the UK are a questionnaire that returns a percentage and a sales call. This one produces four documents, an investment order and a fixed invoice, and the engineers who would build whatever comes next are the ones who run it.
- Not a maturity score. A percentage tells a board nothing it can spend against. The output is a ranked order with a number beside each option.
- Not a tool shortlist. The answer may be one connection between systems you already own, a process change, or nothing at all.
- Not a sales stage. The £2,000 is not credited against a build, so the recommendation costs us the same either way.