AI Readiness Checklist: Is Your Team Ready for AI?
Assess your organisation's AI readiness across six critical dimensions — leadership, tools, workflows, data & security, team capability and organisational support. Get a personalised recommendation based on your score and a 30-day action plan built for Australian businesses scaling AI.
Why AI readiness matters
The gap between organisations experimenting with AI and those genuinely capturing value is widening fast. Most Australian businesses have at least a handful of employees using ChatGPT, Claude, or Microsoft Copilot, but fewer than one in five have established the governance, training, and workflow integration needed to translate that individual experimentation into measurable productivity gains. That gap is what we call the AI maturity gap — and closing it is almost always a leadership problem, not a technology problem.
The signs of readiness are straightforward. Leaders have named a specific reason they're adopting AI that goes beyond “keeping up”. Teams can point to several repetitive tasks where AI would obviously help. Someone in the organisation is enthusiastic enough to champion the rollout, and IT is ready to support enterprise-grade tools with appropriate data controls. When those foundations are in place, training compounds quickly and ROI shows up within the first quarter.
When those foundations are missing, even the best training tends to stall. Staff attend a workshop, try a few prompts, then drift back to old habits because no one owns the follow-through. This checklist is designed to surface exactly where those gaps sit in your organisation — across leadership, tools, workflows, data and security, team capability, and organisational support — so you can fix the right thing first.
It takes about five minutes. You'll get a score, a banded recommendation, and a clear next step tailored to where you are today. Be honest with your answers — inflating your score only means you'll get a recommendation that doesn't match your reality.