Free · fifteen to twenty minutes · no preparation needed
You cannot transform what you cannot measure
The first step is not a project. It is an honest assessment of where your organisation and your people stand today. That is what the AI Readiness Index is for.
The assessments run on this site’s dedicated instance on AIRI Hub, the ecosystem’s assessment platform. Your emailed report carries six AI use cases for your industry, the full 308-case library opens with one work email, and the starter kit takes any email at all.
One framework, two instruments
oAIRI and pAIRI share one architecture, so the two profiles sit on the same axes. They are always presented together, because readiness is both an organisational question and a personal one. Run both and the gap between your workforce’s readiness and your organisation’s readiness is itself a finding: it tells you whether your people are ready for an initiative your leadership is planning, or whether your leadership is ahead of a workforce that has not yet caught up. Re-assess oAIRI every six months. The point of measurement is not the score; it is the decision the score lets you make about where to invest next.
oAIRI · Organisational AI Readiness Index
How AI-ready your organisation is: five pillars, fifteen dimensions.
Who takes it: Three to five senior leaders, independently; compare for consensus.
pAIRI · Personal AI Readiness Index
How AI-ready each person is: the same architecture, five pillars, fifteen dimensions.
Who takes it: Every professional, individually; the two profiles reveal the gap.
The five pillars
Readiness is scored on five pillars. Only two, data and infrastructure, are technical. The other three are the work of business leaders, which is why AI readiness is a leadership matter before it is an IT project.
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P1
Leadership & Culture
Is there commitment and capability to succeed?
The execution multiplier. Carries double weight.
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P2
Ethics & Governance
Are risks managed and ethics considered?
The hard gate. In v3.2 your overall level can never exceed your ethics pillar; weak governance stops a project regardless of other scores.
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P3
Business Value
Can value be identified and captured?
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P4
Data Foundation
Is data accessible and of sufficient quality?
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P5
Infrastructure & Standards
Are tools, infrastructure, and standards in place?
Five levels, one target
AIRI places your organisation, and each of your people, on a five-level ladder. You do not win by pushing everyone to the top: AIRI is explicit that AI Ready (Level 2) is the success target for most professionals and organisations, not a consolation prize.
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L0
AI Unaware
Bystander
Limited understanding; no active AI engagement.
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L1
AI Aware
Explorer
Curious; has tried AI chatbots but not woven them into work.
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L2 · your target
AI Ready
Practitioner
Simple department-level AI workflows, often built by own domain experts with AI tools. This is the target.
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L3
AI Competent
Builder
AI solutions implemented and deployed in production; an in-house AI team.
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L4
AI Catalyst
Pioneer
Sets the standard others follow; reshapes how the organisation works.
A healthy distribution of AI readiness in your organisation:
Know your level, then read the playbook
The starter kit picks up exactly where the assessment leaves off.