THE IA READINESSCHECKLIST.
Most readiness checklists ask about your technology. This one asks about you — because you are the intelligence; AI is the assistant. Twelve honest statements, five minutes, and an honest picture of where you stand.
Answer each statement honestly. You'll see your result at the end.
Direction
You can name the two or three jobs that eat time here without adding value.
You know what you'd want AI to do — specific enough to fit on the back of an envelope, not “we should be doing something with AI.”
You know what you'd do with the time it gave back.
People
A named person owns this — with the authority to say yes, no, and stop.
You know who on your team is curious about AI, who's worried, and why.
Somebody has a few hours a week to learn. Readiness is time, not talent.
Knowledge
How you do things is written down somewhere — not just in people's heads.
You know where your important information lives, and roughly what state it's in.
You can tell the difference between a task you'd delegate and a judgement you wouldn't.
Guardrails
Everyone knows what must never go into an AI tool — and why.
Someone checks the work before it reaches customers, beneficiaries or the public — as you would with any new starter.
You know where your data goes, and whether it trains someone else's model.
Answer all twelve statements to see your result.