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AI Readiness Assessment

A structured diagnostic that maps your AI maturity across eight dimensions: strategy, governance, data, use cases, risk, workforce, vendors, and ROI. Delivered in 2–3 weeks. Board-ready output.

Most companies don't know what they actually have.

AI is entering your organization through employees using ChatGPT, vendors bundling features, and software platforms you already pay for. Before you build a strategy or hire a vendor, you need an honest picture of where you stand.

Without a readiness assessment, AI investments are built on assumptions. Organizations that skip this step consistently discover governance gaps, data quality problems, and misaligned use cases after significant money is already spent.

What David delivers

  • Executive interviews across leadership, IT, legal, HR, and operations (6–10 interviews)
  • Assessment against the Pactus AI Leadership Model™ — 8 dimensions, scored 1–5
  • Shadow AI audit: what AI tools employees are actually using, sanctioned or not
  • Data readiness review: classification, accessibility, and fitness for AI use
  • Use-case prioritization: top 5–10 opportunities ranked by value, feasibility, and risk
  • Risk and compliance gap analysis across legal, privacy, security, and regulatory dimensions
  • Written executive summary and full findings report (15–25 pages)
  • Live board or leadership team presentation of findings
Professional Services · 180 employees · $38M revenue
A regional accounting firm discovers employees in every department are using AI — and no one is governing it.

The managing partner assumed AI adoption was limited to the technology team. The assessment revealed 65% of staff were using AI tools daily — including sharing client financial data with consumer AI platforms not covered by any data agreement.

Within 60 days of the assessment, the firm implemented an acceptable-use policy, created an approved-tools list, and launched a vendor evaluation for a compliant AI platform — avoiding a potential data breach that could have triggered regulatory reporting obligations.

65%Staff using AI without policy
8 wksTo full governance framework
$0Additional vendor cost in Year 1