AI Readiness Assessment
A fixed-price AI readiness assessment that scores your business across 7 areas and hands you a 90-day roadmap. $2,500–$5,000, done in 2 to 4 weeks.
What the AI Readiness Assessment Is
The AI Readiness Audit is a fixed-price assessment that tells you, with evidence, whether your business is in a position to get value from AI, and what to do first. I score your business across seven areas, explain each score, and give you a prioritized roadmap. It costs $2,500 to $5,000 and takes 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff to final report.
You work with me, Gabriel Fuller, from the first call to the readout. There's no sales team and no hand-off to a junior analyst. I don't resell AI tools, so the recommendations aren't shaped by what I'd earn from them.
Want the background first? The AI readiness guide explains what "AI-ready" means and why most AI projects stall. This page covers the audit itself: what it covers, what you get, how long it takes and what it costs.
What the Assessment Covers
The audit scores seven areas on a 1-to-5 scale. Strategy, data and governance carry 1.5 times the weight of the others, because they're the most common reasons AI investment fails to pay off.
- Strategic Alignment: whether there's a named owner, a budget and a business goal you could measure.
- Data Readiness: whether the data a use case needs exists, can be reached and can be trusted.
- Governance, Security & Ethics: what's written down about which AI tools people use and what data goes into them.
- Technology & Infrastructure: whether your current systems can connect to anything new.
- People & AI Literacy: how your team uses AI today, including the tools they use without telling anyone.
- Process Maturity: whether the work you'd automate is documented and done the same way every time.
- Change Readiness & Culture: whether your last few rollouts stuck.
A score goes up only for something I can see: a written policy, a working integration, a named owner. Plans and intentions don't count. The AI readiness guide goes deeper on each area.
Who It's For
A good fit if:
- You keep hearing "you need an AI strategy" and nobody has said what that means for your business.
- Manual, repetitive work eats hours every week and you can't tell whether it's a good candidate for automation.
- You've tried an AI tool, or three, and couldn't tell whether any of them helped.
- You're making a real AI budget decision this year and want an outside read before you commit.
Probably not a fit if:
- You already have a documented AI strategy with an owner and a measured roadmap. You need an implementation partner, not an audit. That's AI & automation.
- You just want to know which tool to buy. That's a short conversation, not a paid engagement.
How It Works
The audit takes 2 to 4 weeks. Most of the variation comes from how quickly interviews can be scheduled.
- Kickoff call (free, 30 minutes). We agree on scope, who I'll talk to and the fixed price before any work starts.
- Pre-work questionnaire. A standard online questionnaire for leadership covering all seven areas: your tools, your data, your policies and how decisions get made.
- Interviews. One leadership interview (60 to 90 minutes), then 30-to-60-minute conversations with two to four people who do the work day to day. This is where most of the findings come from. The gap between how leadership thinks work happens and how it actually happens is usually the most useful thing in the report.
- Scoring. I score each area against what the questionnaire and interviews show, not against plans. Where the questionnaire is the only evidence for a score, I mark it down, because self-assessments run optimistic.
- Readout (60 to 90 minutes). I walk you and your team through the findings and the roadmap, and you push back on anything that looks wrong.
- Final report. A written report you keep and can act on with or without me.
What You Get
The report is written for the people running the business, not for IT. It contains:
- A one-page summary with your three top priorities, each with an owner and a 90-day outcome.
- A scorecard: a score for each of the seven areas and a weighted overall score.
- Findings for each area: what I saw, why it matters for your business, and two or three things to do about it.
- A gap map sorting what's blocking you into critical, important and longer-term.
- Four to eight AI opportunities, each marked as a quick win, a bigger bet or not yet, with what has to be true before it's realistic.
- A roadmap for the first 90 days, 3 to 9 months and 9 to 18 months, with an owner and a success measure for each step.
- A risk register: the five to eight things most likely to derail AI work for you, and what reduces each one.
The report diagnoses; it doesn't sell. It names the kinds of tools you need, not vendors, unless you already own the product. Any savings figure is based on your own numbers or a cited source. Otherwise it's left out.
Sample Scorecard
This is a made-up example. The company and its scores are illustrative, not a real client.
A 45-person regional distributor with an owner keen on AI and an operations team buried in manual order entry:
- Strategic Alignment: 3.5 / 5 (weighted 1.5×)
- Data Readiness: 2.0 / 5 (weighted 1.5×)
- Governance, Security & Ethics: 1.5 / 5 (weighted 1.5×)
- Technology & Infrastructure: 3.0 / 5
- People & AI Literacy: 2.5 / 5
- Process Maturity: 3.0 / 5
- Change Readiness & Culture: 3.5 / 5
- Overall: 2.6 / 5, Emerging Readiness
What it means: leadership is ready, but the foundation isn't. Order data lives in a spreadsheet and two systems that don't talk to each other, and there's no written rule about what staff can paste into AI tools. So the roadmap starts with rule-based automation of order entry, a one-page AI use policy and joining up the order data. Customer-facing AI waits until governance passes 2.0.
Overall scores fall into four bands: Foundation Building (below 2.5), Emerging Readiness (2.5 to 3.4), Strong Preparation (3.5 to 4.2) and AI-Ready Leader (4.3 and up).
What It Costs
The AI Readiness Audit is fixed-price: $2,500 to $5,000. You get the exact number on the kickoff call, before any work starts, and it doesn't change.
Where you land depends on the size of the team and how many people I interview. A small team with one or two interviews sits near $2,500. More departments, more interviews or an employee survey move it toward $5,000.
What Happens After
That's up to you. Some clients take the report and run with it, and that's a fine outcome. I'll tell you if it's the right call for you.
If you want help building what the roadmap calls for, such as a workflow automation or an AI feature in a system you already use, that's a separate, scoped project under AI & automation. If the bigger question is direction, such as vendor choice or build versus buy, that's AI strategy consulting. Either way, the audit's findings carry over, so you don't pay twice to explain your business.
Common Questions
A structured review of whether a business can get value from AI: its strategy, data, governance, technology, people, processes and appetite for change. Reaction21's version, the AI Readiness Audit, scores each area from evidence and ends with a prioritized roadmap.
Reaction21's AI Readiness Audit is fixed-price at $2,500 to $5,000. The price depends on team size and the number of interviews, and it's agreed on the kickoff call before any work starts.
Two to four weeks from kickoff to final report. Most of the variation comes from how quickly interviews can be scheduled.
A written report with a scorecard across seven areas, findings and recommendations for each, a gap map, four to eight AI opportunities, an 18-month roadmap and a risk register, plus a readout meeting to walk through it.
Leadership fills in a questionnaire and sits one 60-to-90-minute interview. Two to four staff members each give 30 to 60 minutes. Everyone is welcome at the readout.
A quiz scores what you say about yourself, and self-assessments run optimistic. The audit scores what the interviews and your systems show, explains every score with evidence, and turns it into a roadmap for your business.
Then the report says so and tells you what to fix first. Finding that out from a $2,500 audit costs far less than finding it out from a failed pilot. Sometimes the right answer is a documented process, not an AI tool.
No. The report is yours, and many clients act on it themselves. If you want help building what it recommends, that's a separate project, scoped on its own.
Gabe is not only an incredibly skilled web developer—consistently delivering high quality, creative achievements. He also brings a rare and valuable strength: exceptional relationship building with clients. He doesn't just provide technical solutions—he creates trust, communicates with clarity and empathy, and becomes a true partner in the success of every project.
Find Out Where You Stand
Tell me what's happening in your business: the manual work, the tools you've tried, the AI conversation that keeps coming up. I'll tell you straight whether an audit is the right next step. The kickoff call is free.
You're talking directly to Gabriel — not a sales rep or account manager. Typically responds within one business day.