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AI Readiness Assessment

Assess your AI readiness across six dimensions. Get a professional report, a prioritised roadmap, and a 90-day action plan. Powered by AI. Completely free.

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Four professional deliverables. Yours to keep.

Four steps. At your own pace.

1

Register

30 seconds
  • Provide your name, email, and company details
  • Receive your personal API key instantly
  • 14-day access window to complete your assessment
2

Score your organisation

20-40 minutes
  • Rate your maturity across six dimensions (1-5 scale)
  • Record evidence, risks, and recommendations per dimension
  • Add quick wins and roadmap initiatives
3

Review and refine

At your pace
  • Preview all four deliverables before finalising
  • Tweak scores and findings as you gather more input
  • Optionally, use AI-powered transcript analysis to pre-populate findings
4

Download your deliverables

Instant
  • Generate all four branded PDF documents
  • Download individually or as a complete package
  • Deliverables are emailed to you for safekeeping

AI-Powered

Paste a transcript. Get a structured assessment.

Already conducted stakeholder interviews? Paste the transcript from Teams, Zoom, or any other meeting tool. Our AI analyses the conversation and pre-populates your assessment with scores, evidence, risks, and recommendations across all six dimensions.

You review and refine the results before generating your deliverables. The AI does the heavy lifting; you stay in control.

  • Works with any meeting transcript (Teams, Zoom, Otter, manual notes)
  • Supports multiple interviews with different stakeholders
  • Extracts scores, evidence, quick wins, and roadmap items
  • You review and adjust everything before finalising
AI analysis output (example)
Data Quality & Integration: 3/5
Good ETL integration but 23% duplicate rate in customer master data. No automated quality checks.
Governance & Stewardship: 2/5
No formal data ownership model. Business glossary covers only 30% of critical terms.
AI Readiness: 1/5
No strategy, no infrastructure, no budget allocated. Leadership interested but no concrete plans.
+ 3 more dimensions, 5 quick wins, 6 roadmap items

Sound familiar?

  • Are we ready for AI, honestly?
  • Where should we invest to get the most value?
  • How big is the gap between reality and what the board believes?
  • Why do our analytics initiatives keep stalling?

The AI Readiness Assessment gives you a structured way to answer these questions, with professional deliverables you can share with your leadership team.

Built by practitioners, not consultants

We have spent decades inside enterprise data environments: building data platforms, managing database infrastructure, and deploying analytics at scale. This tool encodes that experience into a structured assessment framework.

The deliverables are yours. No lock-in, no sales call required, no hidden upsell. If you want help implementing the recommendations, we are here. If you do not, the reports stand on their own.

Free

Get your API key

Register below and we will send you an API key with 14-day access to complete your assessment and generate your deliverables.

  • Full access to the assessment wizard
  • AI-powered transcript analysis
  • All four professional PDF deliverables
  • 14 days to complete at your own pace
  • No credit card required

Common Questions

About the Assessment
  • The Smart Associates AI Readiness Assessment is a free, structured evaluation service that measures how ready an organisation’s data environment is for AI and machine learning. A consultant analyses six dimensions of AI readiness and delivers findings as a set of PDF reports, typically within a few business days.

  • The AI Readiness Assessment from Smart Associates is free of charge. There is no fee for the assessment, the analysis, or the four PDF deliverables.

  • Smart Associates’ AI Readiness Assessment covers six dimensions: data quality, data governance, infrastructure, skills and capabilities, use-case alignment, and organisational readiness. Each dimension is scored and summarised in the deliverable reports.

  • After completing the Smart Associates AI Readiness Assessment, organisations receive four PDF deliverables: an executive summary, a detailed findings report, a prioritised recommendations roadmap, and a quick-wins action plan, all delivered by email.

What You’ll Receive
  • The AI Readiness Assessment is designed for organisations running IBM Netezza or other enterprise data warehouses who are considering introducing AI or machine learning. It is particularly relevant for teams without an in-house AI strategy or those unsure where to start.

  • The Smart Associates AI Readiness Assessment typically takes a few business days from initial consultation to delivery of the PDF reports. The process involves a structured review, followed by analysis and report generation.

  • Yes. Smart Associates’ AI Readiness Assessment is specifically designed for IBM Netezza and data warehouse environments. The consultant evaluates whether the existing platform, its data quality, and governance controls are sufficient to support AI and ML deployment without data movement.

  • Yes. One of the four PDF deliverables from the Smart Associates AI Readiness Assessment is a quick-wins action plan — a prioritised list of immediate steps the organisation can take to improve AI readiness without significant investment.

Getting Started
  • Many AI and ML projects fail not because of the model, but because the underlying data is poorly governed, inconsistently structured, or lacking quality controls. The Smart Associates AI Readiness Assessment identifies these gaps before deployment, preventing investment in models that cannot perform reliably in production.

  • The Smart Associates AI Readiness Assessment evaluates readiness for a range of AI and ML tools, including large language models, in-database analytics such as IBM INZA, and external ML platforms. It assesses whether the organisation’s data environment, governance, and skills are sufficient to deploy these tools effectively.

  • As part of the Smart Associates AI Readiness Assessment, consultants may use AI transcript analysis to review structured conversations about the organisation’s data environment. This accelerates the analysis phase and helps surface patterns across multiple stakeholder responses.

  • Visit smart-associates.biz/solutions/ai-health-check/ to register for the free AI Readiness Assessment. The page includes a registration form for API key access and an initial consultation booking.