Is your business actually ready for AI?
Most AI projects fail before they start — wrong use case, unready data, or a website AI engines cannot even read. We audit both sides: your business’s readiness to use AI, and your website’s readiness to be found, cited and used by AI. Then we tell you the honest answer.
- Scored on the six dimensions every major framework converges on — NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, Microsoft, Gartner
- Includes an EU AI Act check: transparency duties for chatbots and AI content are in force since August 2026
- Built by a team that ships AI agents and RAG for a living — and made its own website agent-readable
- Honest by design: analysts put genuine AI high performers at roughly 6% of companies. If you are not ready, the report says what to fix first.
What we actually audit
Six business dimensions plus the two website checks nobody else bundles in — because readiness for AI now includes being readable BY AI.
Use cases worth doing
Readiness is purpose-specific — you are ready for a concrete use case, not for "AI" in the abstract. We rank your candidate use cases by ROI and feasibility, and name the ones not worth building. That last list is usually the most valuable page of the report.
Your data
The most common blocker, and the weakest pillar in every industry benchmark: availability, quality, accessibility and who actually owns it. AI on top of messy data automates the mess.
Governance & risk
The pragmatic NIST-style baseline an SMB actually needs: a written AI-use policy, a named owner, an inventory of every AI tool already in use — including the ones your team adopted without asking.
EU AI Act exposure
If you serve EU users, transparency obligations are live now (since August 2, 2026): chatbots must disclose they are AI, synthetic content needs machine-readable marking, deepfakes need labels — with fines up to €15M or 3% of turnover. We flag exactly which duties touch you and which (like high-risk rules, deferred to late 2027) do not.
Skills & culture
Who on your team uses AI today, for what, and how well. The EU’s AI-literacy duty has applied since February 2025 — but the business case is bigger than compliance: tools nobody adopts return nothing.
Infrastructure & integrations
Where AI can plug into your actual stack — APIs, data flows, documentation, queues. The difference between a two-week pilot and a six-month integration project is usually decided here.
AI search visibility (AEO)
Can ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI answers find and cite you? We audit your structured data, llms.txt, content structure and machine-readable trust signals — the search channel that is growing while classic clicks shrink.
Agent readiness
The 2026 frontier: can AI agents acting for your customers actually use your site — read it, fill your forms, book your calls? We check schema, form semantics and agent protocols like WebMCP. Our own site passes this audit; almost none do yet.
From intake to honest verdict
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Share the basics
The form below, plus a 15-minute intake call if useful. No preparation needed — "we don’t know where to start" is a perfectly good starting point.
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We assess both sides
A senior engineer scores the six business dimensions; the website side gets a technical scan — structured data, AEO signals, agent accessibility, chatbot compliance.
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You get the report
A readiness scorecard with a heatmap, EU AI Act compliance flags, use cases ranked by ROI, and a prioritized 90-day roadmap. Written for the owner, not for a data-science conference.
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You decide calmly
Run a pilot with us, hand the roadmap to your own team, or fix the foundations first. If the honest verdict is "not yet", the report says so and names the cheapest path to ready.
What you walk away with
A report you own, whatever you decide to build.
- AI readiness scorecard across the six dimensions, with a heatmap of strong and weak spots
- Website AI-visibility report: how AI search engines and agents see your site today
- EU AI Act compliance flags — which live obligations touch you, which deferred ones do not (flagged for your lawyer, not legal advice)
- Up to three use cases ranked by ROI and feasibility — including the ones we advise against
- A prioritized 90-day roadmap: what to fix, in what order, and what each step unlocks
- A fixed quote for the first pilot if you want us to build it — no obligation to take it
Find out before you spend.
An honest scorecard costs you a form submission. A pilot that should never have started costs a quarter’s budget.
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Fair questions
- AI readiness audit, assessment, maturity check — is there a difference?
- Same discipline, different labels. Consultancies say "assessment", auditors say "audit", analysts say "maturity model" — and all of them converge on the same six dimensions: strategy and use cases, data, infrastructure, governance and risk, skills and culture, operations. We score exactly those, at a depth an SMB can act on rather than file away.
- Is it really free?
- Yes — same policy as our other audits: free for medium and enterprise-grade businesses. Some audited companies hire us to build the pilot; the rest leave with a roadmap and tell people about it. Both outcomes work for us.
- What frameworks is the audit based on?
- The structure follows NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework (govern, map, measure, manage), the checklist draws on ISO/IEC 42001’s controls, and the compliance section tracks the EU AI Act as actually in force. You get the substance of those frameworks at pragmatic depth — not a certification project.
- Does the EU AI Act really apply to a business our size?
- If EU users interact with your AI — quite possibly, and sooner than most think. The bans on unacceptable practices and the AI-literacy duty have applied since February 2025; transparency rules (chatbot disclosure, machine-readable marking of AI content, deepfake labels) are enforceable since August 2, 2026. The heavier high-risk obligations were deferred to December 2027, and Article 62 gives small businesses real reliefs. We flag what touches you; your lawyer confirms — we are engineers, not attorneys.
- What does "website AI readiness" mean?
- Whether AI systems can find, cite and use your site. Two layers: AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI) citing you as a source — that is AEO; and AI agents acting for your customers being able to read your pages, fill your forms and book your calls. Traffic is shifting to both. We audit both — it is the half of AI readiness almost every assessment ignores.
- Our team already uses ChatGPT daily. Do we still need this?
- That is precisely the moment to audit: tools have arrived faster than policy, which means unmanaged data exposure, an AI-literacy duty you may already carry, and — more happily — proven appetite you can point at higher-ROI use cases than drafting emails. The audit turns scattered usage into a plan.
- What happens if the verdict is "you are not ready"?
- You get that verdict in writing, with the shortest path to ready — usually one data cleanup or one process fix, not a transformation program. We will not sell a chatbot to a company that needs a spreadsheet first. The same honesty policy runs through everything we do: we tell you when a feature is not worth building.
Sources: NIST AI Risk Management Framework · ISO/IEC 42001 — AI management systems · EU AI Act implementation timeline (European Commission) · EU AI Act Article 50 transparency guide · Organizational AI readiness (Jöhnk et al., BISE)