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AI Readiness Assessment

Pinpoints where AI can drive efficiency, cost savings and measurable business improvement.

Once your processes are sound, the next question is where AI will actually move the needle. The AI Readiness Assessment reviews your operation, your data and your technology stack to find the specific opportunities where AI can save time, cut cost or unlock growth, and tells you honestly where it cannot.

Best suited to

Businesses with reasonably stable processes who want a clear, evidence-based view of where AI should be applied first.

Typical timeline

Two to three weeks from kick-off to the readiness report and roadmap session.

Scope

5 inclusions covering consultancy and delivery.

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Scope

What is included

Engagements cover consultancy and delivery. Any AI platform, licence or usage fees are paid direct to the vendor and are quoted separately so you always see the real cost.

Included
  • Review of data, systems and process maturity
  • Readiness scoring across people, process and technology
  • Shortlist of the highest value AI use cases for your business
  • Risk, governance and privacy considerations documented
  • Readiness report and roadmap session with your leadership team
Not included
  • Build work, quoted once the priority use case is chosen
  • AI platform subscriptions and usage
The problem

Processes are sound. The question is where AI actually pays.

Without an evidence-based view, AI spend goes to whatever was demonstrated most recently. Data gaps and integration limits then surface halfway through the build.

Sounds familiar?
  • Competing internal opinions on what to automate first
  • Data spread across systems with no agreed source of truth
  • No view of the guardrails needed for responsible use
  • Budget approved with no expected return attached
Our approach

How we work through it.

01

Review the operation

Workflows across sales, marketing, operations and finance, and where time is genuinely lost.

02

Test the data

Quality, access and integration checked for each candidate opportunity, not assumed.

03

Size and rank

Every opportunity scored on impact, effort, data readiness and risk.

04

Sequence the roadmap

Quick wins first, larger builds once value is proven, with budget guidance for both consultancy and platform costs.

What we cover

  • Current workflows and where time is lost
  • Data quality, access and readiness for AI tools
  • Existing technology stack and integration possibilities
  • Customer and employee experience touchpoints
  • Sales, marketing, operations and finance processes
  • Risk, compliance and guardrails needed for responsible use

Outcomes

  • A ranked list of AI opportunities sized by impact and effort
  • A clear view of data and system readiness for each opportunity
  • Recommended sequence: quick wins first, larger builds once value is proven
  • Honest guidance on what should stay human and what should stay manual
  • Budget guidance covering consultancy and the platform costs you pay direct

What you receive.

01

Readiness report

A plain-English assessment of where your business is ready for AI and where it needs groundwork.

02

Opportunity register

Every AI opportunity ranked by business impact, effort, data readiness and risk.

03

Implementation roadmap

A phased 6 to 12 month plan with expected outcomes and indicative investment.

04

Executive walkthrough

A working session to pressure-test the roadmap before any build begins.

Timeline

How it runs.

Two to three weeks from kick-off to the readiness report and roadmap session.

  1. 01
    Week 1
    Discovery

    Workflow interviews, systems review and data access.

  2. 02
    Week 2
    Readiness analysis

    Data quality, integration options and risk assessed per opportunity.

  3. 03
    Week 3
    Report and roadmap

    Readiness report, ranked opportunity register and the roadmap session.

Example use cases.

Anonymised examples of how this work plays out in established Australian businesses.

A professional services firm losing senior time to admin

A 40-person consultancy suspected too much partner time was going into proposals and reporting. The assessment traced 60 percent of that admin to three repeatable document workflows.

Roadmap identified 22 hours a week of recoverable senior time across two phases.

A wholesaler with disconnected systems

Orders, stock and accounts lived in three systems that never spoke. The assessment showed the real cost was not the software, it was the manual re-keying and the errors it created.

Integration and reporting prioritised ahead of any new AI tooling.

A services business unsure where to invest

The owner had trialled eight AI tools and adopted none. We assessed the business rather than the tools, and found the highest-value opportunity sat in enquiry response times, not content generation.

Spend redirected from six unused subscriptions into one high-impact build.

Frequently asked questions

Pricing, timelines and what happens after you get in touch. If your question is not here, ask it on the written scope.

Pricing and scope

What the engagement covers and what you pay for.

Timelines

How long it takes and how it fits around your operations.

What happens next

From first enquiry through to post-delivery support.

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AI Readiness Assessment

AI jobsAssessment tier

Fixed scope review, priced before we start and quoted at the written scoping response.

First and last name is plenty.

We only use this to send your written scope, no calls.

23/80

A few words, for example Law firm or Plumbing.

Optional. Australian mobile or landline, for example 0412 345 678 or (02) 9876 5432.

Quick ROI calculator

Three numbers. We will estimate the time and money your business could reclaim.

Hours reclaimed / week
8 hrs
Hours reclaimed / year
345 hrs

Assumes 50% of repetitive work can be automated or handed off, based on 46 working weeks a year. This is a rough guide only, your actual savings depend on the workflow.

0/1200

Two or three sentences: the task, who does it, and roughly how long it takes each week.

Call with: You, AI Readiness Assessment
Page: service-ai-readiness-assessment

What we will dig into:
- Tell us where most of your time goes above and we will tailor the agenda around it.

In writing: map the bottleneck, agree the audit scope, then a fixed price and timeline.

This updates as you type and is what your consultant sees before the call.

Start with the business, not the technology.

One conversation, one clear view of where AI belongs in your business, and a roadmap ranked by impact.

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