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AI Readiness Assessment

1 month · pricing on the discovery call
Talk to Patrick

You've sat through the vendor decks, and not one of them said where AI doesn't fit your operation. The assessment gives you that straight answer, then ranks the places where it does.

It's for CPOs, COOs and CFOs in one of two spots. Either nothing is in production yet and you want a plan you can defend before you commit capital, or you've run a handful of pilots that haven't moved the number and you want someone to tell you why.

For a month we're inside your business, going through processes, data, vendor relationships, team capability and commercial priorities, and talking to the people who'd have to live with the answer. You get back a short document instead of a 120-slide deck. It ranks the workflows worth automating by ROI, risk and time-to-value, and each one comes with a 90-day plan and a named owner.

We write it for the board meeting. When a director pushes back on the numbers, your CPO should be able to defend every one of them.

How it runs
  1. Audit
  2. Interview
  3. Rank
  4. Plan
  5. Summary
What you get

Inclusions

  • Workflow and data audit across the business: we map how the work actually runs, step by step, and what's real vs. what's assumed
  • Vendor and tooling review: what you're paying for, what's actually earning its keep
  • The workflows worth automating, ranked by ROI, risk and time-to-value with defensible sizing
  • 90-day implementation plan with named owners and measurement criteria
  • Board-ready executive summary: one page that stands alone
Commercial terms

Fixed fee, paid in two installments. Fee is credited in full against an AI Build Program if you continue with us within 60 days.

Fit

When this engagement is the right call

  • You've read the headlines but don't have a plan
  • Your team has run pilots that stalled and you need a diagnosis
  • You've been pitched by three agencies and don't trust any of them
  • You need a defensible AI budget ask for next planning cycle
Next step

A 30-minute call with Patrick

Bring the pilot that stalled or the budget ask you can't defend yet. Patrick will tell you whether the assessment is the right first step.

or email: patrick@higheragency.solutions

Further reading

Nobody checked the 95%

The most-quoted statistic in enterprise AI comes from 153 survey responses, describes something other than failure, and is now used to end conversations it should start.

Read the essay