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AI Readiness Checklist for Business Owners
A practical baseline to determine whether your AI usage is controlled, secure, and delivering value.
AI has arrived inside your business whether you planned for it or not. The question is not whether your team is using it. The question is whether the business is getting the value, controlling the risk, and steering the direction. Ten short sections, twenty checkpoints, fifteen minutes.
What is inside
Ten dimensions of an AI-ready business
Each section has a one-line context and two yes/no checkpoints. Work through them in any order. The total score matters less than the pattern of where the gaps cluster.
- 01 Visibility, which AI tools your team is actually using
- 02 Policy, written rules for what is and is not allowed
- 03 Ownership, one accountable person for AI
- 04 Data protection, what is safe to enter into AI tools
- 05 Security alignment, AI inside the identity and access model
- 06 Output validation, a human owns the decision
- 07 Cost control, the AI licensing bill across all platforms
- 08 Integration, AI supporting defined processes, not ad-hoc use
- 09 Risk awareness, staff training and guidance
- 10 Direction, a defined 12-month AI strategy
Plus a "what your score means" page that reads the pattern of checked and unchecked boxes, with the suggested first move depending on where your gaps cluster.
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What you do with it
From a scan to a plan
The point of the checklist is not the number at the end. It is the conversation it makes possible inside your business.
As an internal scan
Run it yourself first. Each unchecked box is a small structural gap. A cluster of unchecked boxes in one section tells you exactly where the first month of work needs to go.
As a leadership conversation
Walk through it with your leadership team. The disagreements about what is and is not in place are usually more useful than the score. A shared view of where you are is the first AI deliverable.
As a brief for your IT partner
Hand the checklist to your managed IT or technology partner. The pattern of unchecked boxes gives them a clear, structured starting point for what to fix, in what order.