AI readiness isn’t a feeling. It’s six things you can measure.
Most companies asking “are we ready for AI?” are really asking six narrower questions: about their data, their systems, their people, their guardrails, their leadership, and their direction. Score those honestly and the right first move usually becomes obvious.
These pages explain each dimension — what it covers, what weak and strong look like in practice, and how to improve. The free AI Readiness Assessment scores all six in about ten minutes, 32 questions in all.
The six dimensions
Data Readiness
Where your data lives, how much you trust it, and whether it can feed AI.
Explore the dimensionTech Stack
How modern, integrated, and AI-accessible your technology foundation is.
Explore the dimensionOrg Readiness
Whether your people, ownership, and training can carry AI into daily use.
Explore the dimensionData Governance
Whether you can use AI safely, securely, and in compliance with your data.
Explore the dimensionCEO & Leadership
How leadership models, frames, and commits to AI — the strongest adoption signal.
Explore the dimensionStrategic Horizon
Whether AI aligns with where you're actually taking the business.
Explore the dimensionHow the six become one picture
The dimensions are scored independently, because companies are rarely uniform — strong data with absent governance is a different situation from the reverse, and the two call for different first moves. The assessment combines the six scores into an overall readiness stage, then lets your weakest dimension drive the recommendation. That’s deliberate: the fastest path forward is almost never “do more of what you’re good at.”
If you’re in the Birmingham area, the Birmingham AI community is a free, practical place to see how other companies are working through the same six questions — Sparkhound sponsors it and shows up every month.
Ten minutes to an honest baseline
32 questions, six dimension scores, an instant readiness profile, and a first move matched to your weakest dimension. Free, from Sparkhound.
Take the free assessment