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AI Readiness Assessment

12 questions across 6 dimensions. An honest picture of where your organisation stands, and the gaps most worth closing.

Dimension 1 of 6
Strategy & Direction
Where you're going, and whether leadership agrees on what to do first.
Question 01 / 12
Does your organisation have a documented AI policy and strategy, aligned to specific business objectives, reviewed in the last 12 months?
Question 02 / 12
Has leadership agreed on the top 2–3 priority AI use cases for your organisation?
Dimension 2 of 6
Leadership & Accountability
Who's accountable, and whether they have the authority and resources to act.
Question 03 / 12
Is there a named person or role accountable for AI, with the authority, budget, and resources to make decisions?
Question 04 / 12
Does senior leadership actively sponsor AI initiatives, with sustained budget, attention, and visible accountability?
Dimension 3 of 6
Data & Foundations
Whether your data is in a state that can sustain AI initiatives.
Question 05 / 12
How would you describe the quality and accessibility of the data your AI initiatives would rely on?
Question 06 / 12
Do you have data governance in place covering lineage, access controls, classification, and consent tracking?
Dimension 4 of 6
People & Skills
Whether the people inside the organisation can carry an AI programme.
Question 07 / 12
Do you have staff with the technical skills to design, maintain, and improve AI systems, not just use off-the-shelf tools?
Question 08 / 12
Is there an active workforce AI fluency programme covering non-technical staff (training, role redesign, or structured change management)?
Dimension 5 of 6
Risk & Governance
Whether AI use is being managed responsibly, and defensibly.
Question 09 / 12
Do you maintain an inventory of AI use cases with risk classifications, and have you assessed privacy, security, and ethical implications?
Question 10 / 12
Do your AI systems have documented human-oversight points, and a way for affected people to contest or appeal outcomes?
Dimension 6 of 6
Execution & Value
Whether AI work is actually changing how the business operates.
Question 11 / 12
Have you redesigned at least one workflow or process around AI, rather than just bolting AI onto existing processes?
Question 12 / 12
Do you measure whether AI initiatives are delivering value, with success metrics defined upfront and ongoing monitoring after deployment?
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Methodology & Sources This assessment draws on the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0, 2023); the Australian Voluntary AI Safety Standard (Department of Industry, Science and Resources, 2024); ISO/IEC 42001:2023 (Artificial Intelligence Management Systems); McKinsey, The State of AI (2025); and Fountaine, McCarthy & Saleh, Building the AI-Powered Organization, Harvard Business Review (2019). Dimensions and scoring bands are Third Orbit's synthesis of these sources for Australian mid-market context.