What “AI readiness” actually means
AI readiness is the ability to deploy AI and automation safely into real workflows—so it saves time or improves outcomes without creating new operational risk.
A 15-minute checklist (start here)
- Workflow clarity: Can you describe the workflow end-to-end (inputs → decisions → outputs)?
- Data availability: Do you have the data you need, in a usable format, with stable identifiers?
- Ownership: Who owns the workflow, and who owns the data?
- Access + privacy: What data is sensitive, and who can see it?
- Failure handling: What happens when the system is wrong or the integration fails?
Pick one use case and ship it
The fastest path to ROI is usually one workflow: e.g. triaging support requests, drafting responses with citations, extracting fields from invoices, or summarising sales calls into CRM notes.
What you get from a readiness assessment
- High-ROI use cases ranked by impact and feasibility
- Blockers (data, process, risk) with specific fixes
- A two-week plan to ship the first working improvement
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