Is this a maturity model?

No. Maturity models rank you against an industry curve. This scores what your organisation can absorb in the next two quarters and names the person who closes the weakest pillar.

What if we already know our weak spot?

Then say so in the first call. If you already have a scored baseline, a named owner per pillar, and a triaged shortlist, start at the Prototype Sprint instead.

Do you need our data?

Not for the assessment. We need access to people and to workflow documentation. Data access begins at build time, under your controls.

AI Strategy and Operating Model

AI readiness assessment

A scored assessment across leadership commitment, data usability, workflow clarity, and governance, with a named owner assigned to the weakest pillar

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Duration: 3 to 4 weeks
Ladder stage: Pre-Proof
NATIVE stages: Notice, Assess, Target

The situation

When this engagement is the right one

Your board has asked what the AI plan is. Pilots exist in three functions, none of them has an owner outside the team that started it, and nobody can say what the current state costs. A readiness assessment is not a maturity badge. It is the work of deciding what this organisation can absorb in the next two quarters, and who closes the gap that stops it.

You are probably seeing

Several pilots are running and none of them has crossed into routine operations.
Two functions are using public models on real data and no inventory exists.
Every AI conversation ends in a platform comparison rather than a workflow decision.
The last vendor assessment produced a score and changed nothing in the plan.
Your data team says the data is not ready and nobody has priced what ready costs.

What we do

The work, in the order it happens

01Inventory every active pilot, shadow tool, and unofficial use of a public model, across every function. Nothing is shut down; this is an inventory, not a verdict.
02Test the three loudest AI-adjacent complaints for persistence, spread, consequence, and compression, and reduce them to two structural market signals written in one sentence each.
03Score the organisation 1 to 5 on Leadership Commitment, Data Usability, Workflow Clarity, and Governance, in one room rather than by survey, with dissent recorded.
04Assign one named executive to close the lowest-scoring pillar within sixty days.
05Build a use-case long list and cut it through three gates: strategic consequence, measurability, feasibility.
06Complete one value map: the metric, the named owner, the expected benefit, and the validation method.
07Write a ninety-day plan with weekly owners.

What you get, and keep

A pilot and shadow-AI inventory, by function, as a spreadsheet you keep.
Two named structural market signals, one sentence each, dated.
A four-pillar readiness score with the scoring session's dissent recorded, as a slide-free document.
A triaged use-case shortlist of one or two items, with the rejected list and the reason each was cut.
One completed value map.
A ninety-day plan with a named owner per week.
A ninety-minute readout to the leadership team, not a report sent by email.

Prerequisites

Access to the executives who own the four pillars, not their delegates, for one scoring session.
Permission to inventory current tool usage without disciplinary consequence for the people who disclose it.

Not included

No software is built during the Diagnostic. If a build is the right answer, it starts at the Prototype Sprint.
No data remediation project. We price what ready costs; we do not run the clean-up inside this engagement.

Duration and price shape

3 to 4 weeks

Fixed fee, published in INR and USD. Comparable enterprise AI assessments from large consultancies are commonly quoted in the $50,000 to $150,000 range.

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Where this sits in the method

Commercially this is a Pre-Proof engagement on the Proof, Product, Platform ladder.

FAQ

Questions we get asked

Is this a maturity model?: No. Maturity models rank you against an industry curve. This scores what your organisation can absorb in the next two quarters and names the person who closes the weakest pillar.
What if we already know our weak spot?: Then say so in the first call. If you already have a scored baseline, a named owner per pillar, and a triaged shortlist, start at the Prototype Sprint instead.
Do you need our data?: Not for the assessment. We need access to people and to workflow documentation. Data access begins at build time, under your controls.

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Next step

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