How do I evaluate whether my company is AI-ready?
Look at four things: who owns AI decisions, which data may never leave the company, whether AI-drafted client output passes through human review, and whether you measure rollback rate.
The four checks
Named owner. Written data boundaries. Mandatory human review for client-facing output. A measured rollback rate that tells you how often AI work is unusable.
What a low rating looks like
No owner, no policy, no review step, no measurement — and tools spreading by word of mouth. This is the most common state and the most expensive to ignore.
When to use this
- You're about to roll out an AI tool company-wide.
- You handle client data and want to use AI safely.
What to avoid
- Buying tools before defining what they should touch.
- Treating LLM output as authoritative.