For SME owners and leaders
Your AI advantage is built into your workflows, not bought off the shelf.
A twenty-dollar monthly subscription puts the same chatbots and copilots in every competitor’s hands. Your advantage comes from using AI to transform your business processes and workflows.
Pick it, score it, build it or buy it. The starter kit takes your first AI project from candidate list to production as a printable worksheet, adoption checklist included. When you want depth, the three-hour course and the 308-case library are here.
Why the subscription is not enough
The same tools are in every competitor’s hands
Productivity gains from tool use alone do not add up to a competitive advantage, because your rival holds the same subscription. And the projects that stall rarely fail on technology. They fail on readiness: leadership that has not committed, data that is not usable, use cases that are not real, and teams that cannot sustain what a vendor built.
That is why this site starts with the doing and measures before it builds. Quick wins this month, the free assessment before any spend, one real project after that.
Quick wins this month
What AI returns, in numbers
Three quick wins from the use-case library, with the measured results. Each runs on a subscription you can cancel, with no project, no consultant, and no new hire.
Product descriptions drafted from your own catalogue data
Writing time down 70–80%; one retailer went from two-day listings to same-day
Meeting minutes and site reports drafted from the briefing recording
Documentation time down 60–70%; the action items manual notes drop still get caught
Customer enquiries answered around the clock from your own FAQ and tracking page
A quarter to two-fifths fewer routine queries reach staff; two to three hours back per person per day
Find your level
Five levels, one target
The free fifteen-minute assessment places your organisation, and each of your people, on the five-level ladder. For most SMEs the destination is AI Ready (Level 2), and the framework is explicit that it is the success target, not a consolation prize.
Beyond quick wins
Build with help, or build it yourselves
When one workflow is running and you want more, there are two pathways. Grow your own: send your people for mentored training, and they build, deploy, and own a real application for the business, about one month of scoping and one month of part-time development, IP yours. Build with help brings in a collaborator for the complex project, roughly six months, and you take the system over at the end. Roughly seven in ten of the grow-your-own builds reach deployment, and the people who build yours spend months (years) learning your business, so you end with bespoke AI workflows built by people who know the pain points best. Your people, your workflow, your data, your IP.
The starter kit walks both paths, step by step, from scoring your candidates to the checklist that keeps the programme on track.
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Built on evidence
The numbers behind the method
- organisations assessed with AIRI
- 5,000+
- assessed for industry AI projects
- 1,000+
- AI projects delivered
- 350+
- professionals trained
- 350,000+
A regional insurer: an estimated SGD 200,000–300,000 saved annually by year three.
A medical-imaging practice: charting time cut from about twenty minutes to under five per image.
An engineering firm: answers that took days, in minutes.
Vetting a provider
Before you sign with a vendor
Three of the eight things to demand from any prospective provider, distilled from nine years of vetting them:
- Production, not demos, and customers you can call about it
- It runs in your systems, behind your login; a notebook handover does not count
- The IP, the data, and the model weights are yours when the engagement ends
A provider that cannot answer these is selling you a model. All eight questions, the step-by-step to your first project, and the adoption checklist are in the starter kit.
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Who is behind this site
Laurence Liew, architect of the AI Readiness Index and author of AI-First Nation, with nine years of national AI programme experience across more than one thousand organisations. This site is his personal initiative.
Assess where you stand before you build
Fifteen minutes, free, no account. Your results place you on the ladder and carry the first six AI use cases for your industry. The full 308-case library opens with your work email.