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Executive Summary
Overall maturity score, key findings, and where you stand relative to industry context. Two to three paragraphs a senior leader can act on directly.
AI Readiness Quick Check
Know where your AI foundations stand.
A 12-question assessment that produces a consulting-grade diagnostic report. Four domains. Twelve factors. A clear picture of where your AI investments are at risk and what to do about it.
We are not selling you AI. We are equipping you to evaluate and direct whoever is building your AI. Every AI project requires foundational readiness across knowledge, operations, technology, and governance. The Quick Check identifies where those foundations are strong and where they create risk, regardless of which firm or platform is doing the implementation.
The consultants, integrators, and platform vendors working on your AI initiatives are capable people. They figure things out. But they are learning on your dime. The question is whether you have equipped them for success, or whether they are discovering your organizational gaps one failed deployment at a time.
The AI Readiness Quick Check gives you the answer in two business days. Not a scored survey. Not a generic maturity checklist. A report grounded in 30 years of information architecture methodology that tells you exactly where your foundations support AI success and where they create risk.
THE REPORT
A 9-section analytical report, delivered within two business days
Every Quick Check report includes industry research specific to your organization and sector, factor-by-factor analysis, and remediation guidance that your team can act on immediately.
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Respondent Profile
Your organizational context, role, function, and scope of AI involvement, establishing the frame for all subsequent analysis.
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Industry Context
Original research on your organization, your sector's AI adoption patterns, relevant benchmarks, and how peers are approaching the same readiness questions.
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AI Readiness Scorecard
Color-coded scores across all 12 factors and 4 domains, with factor-level analysis explaining what each score means operationally.
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Gap Analysis
Dedicated analysis for every gap: what it means for AI performance, the organizational risk if left unaddressed, and factor-specific remediation guidance.
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Strategic Recommendations
Phased priorities with specific, actionable items tied to identified gaps. Not generic best practices. Actions your organization can start next week.
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Further Investigation
25 to 30 diagnostic questions designed to guide deeper internal review and scope a comprehensive assessment, if the signal warrants one.
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Recommended Services
EIS services mapped to your specific gaps, with links to relevant practice areas. Targeted recommendations, not a catalog.
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Next Steps
How to expand participation to colleagues, what to do with the findings, and how to move from signal to structured investigation.
ASSESSMENT STRUCTURE
Twelve factors across four domains
The Quick Check maps to the EIS AI Readiness Framework, which treats readiness as a multi-dimensional problem. Weakness in one domain constrains performance across all others, regardless of how strong the others are.
Knowledge Readiness
Factors: Knowledge Accessibility, Content Structure & Metadata, Procedure Documentation
Is your knowledge findable, structured, and complete enough for AI to retrieve and apply it accurately? Most AI failures begin here, not in the model.
Operational Readiness
Factors: SME Knowledge Workflows, Content Review Cycles, AI Output Monitoring
Do your operational processes support the ongoing quality that AI requires? AI does not maintain itself. Neither does the content it depends on.
Technical Readiness
Factors: AI-Ready Knowledge Repository, System Integration, Security & Audit Controls
Is your technical infrastructure capable of supporting AI at enterprise scale while meeting the auditability and security requirements of regulated environments?
Governance Readiness
Factors: Ownership & Governance, Cross-functional Collaboration, Leadership & Investment
Are ownership, accountability, and cross-functional alignment in place? The most common gap in enterprise AI is not a technical problem.
Very, very impressive. This is the kind of analysis we expected to pay significantly more for.
Quick Check Beta Participant, CEO
Global Knowledge Management Consultancy
TEAM PARTICIPATION
One report is a signal. Multiple respondents reveal organizational reality.
The most actionable finding in any Quick Check is rarely the individual score. It is the gap between how two people at the same organization, in the same function, perceive the same capability. When that gap is 20 points or more, the organization cannot dismiss it as one person's opinion. The divergence is the finding.
Invite 5 to 10 colleagues across functions, levels, and business units. EIS delivers individual reports for each participant plus a comparative analysis that surfaces where the organization has a shared view of its readiness and where it does not. That comparison is what makes the case for deeper investigation.
First Quick Check
Add participants
Review report(s)
Working session
1. First respondent completes the Quick Check
You establish the baseline. EIS delivers your report within two business days.
PRICING
Straightforward pricing.
Every report is the full 9-section deliverable with organization-specific industry research, factor-level analysis, and factor-specific remediation guidance. There is no abbreviated version.
QUICK CHECK REPORT
$2,500 for the first respondent
Full 9-section report with industry research. Delivered within two business days.
What's included:
9-section analytical reportOrganization-specific industry research
Factor-specific remediation guidance
Delivery timeline: 2 business days
ADDITIONAL RESPONDENTS
Add colleagues from your organization for $1,000 per respondent. Each receives the same consulting-grade analytical report grounded in EIS methodology.
When two or more respondents from the same organization participate, all respondents also receive a comparative analysis and access to a group working session with EIS experts.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is my data safe?
The information you share in the AI Readiness Quick Check is held in strict confidence. It is used exclusively to generate your organization's AI readiness analysis and for no other purpose. EIS does not sell, license, share, or otherwise disclose your responses to any party outside of Earley Information Science. View, print, or download our AI Readiness Assessment Data Confidentiality Certification ➝.
Can we sign an NDA?
If your organization requires a signed NDA before completing the AI Readiness Quick Check, please contact us before beginning the survey. We will prepare a mutual NDA promptly and, in most cases, return a countersigned copy within one business day.
Email: privacy@earley.com
Reference: AI Readiness Quick Check NDA Request
What happens immediately after I purchase?
You receive a confirmation and a link to the Quick Check survey immediately. Once you submit, EIS begins analysis and delivers your report within two business days.
Who is this report designed for?
The report is designed to work for two audiences simultaneously. Senior leaders get an executive summary and scorecard they can act on directly. Practitioners and champions get gap analysis, phased recommendations, and diagnostic questions they can use to build an internal case for deeper investigation. Both audiences get industry context that situates the findings against sector benchmarks.
How is this different from a generic AI maturity assessment?
Generic assessments produce scores. This report produces an analysis. Every factor scoring at a gap level gets a dedicated paragraph explaining what that score means operationally, why it constrains AI performance, what the organizational risk is if left unaddressed, and what specific actions move the organization forward. The analysis draws on EIS's proprietary frameworks: the AI Readiness Maturity Model, IAD-RAG, AIRR-10, and the Retrieval Accuracy Improvement Loop. The methodology is the engine. Without it, the Quick Check is a scored survey. With it, the report is a diagnostic.
Why does the comparative analysis matter so much?
One person's assessment reflects one person's visibility. Two people at the same organization, in the same function, answering the same 12 questions and arriving at scores 20 or more points apart reveals something an individual report cannot: the organization does not have a shared view of its own capabilities. That divergence is often the most valuable finding. It surfaces siloed understanding, inconsistent implementation across business units, and the organizational alignment gaps that no single respondent could have identified alone. The comparative analysis is what turns individual signals into organizational evidence.
How does the Quick Check refer to the full 74-question AI assessment?
The Quick Check tells you where the gaps are. The full 74-question assessment, conducted over 2 to 4 weeks with 15 to 25 stakeholders across the organization, tells you why the gaps exist and what specifically to do about each one. The Quick Check creates the signal and the urgency. The full assessment provides the diagnosis and the treatment plan. They are complementary. Many organizations use the Quick Check to build internal alignment around the need for deeper investigation before committing to the full engagement.
What if I have questions about my report after receiving it?
A working session with an EIS advisor is included with every set of Quick Check reports from the same organization. This 30 to 60 minute session is where EIS walks through the findings, you validate them against your organizational reality, and together you determine whether deeper investigation is warranted and what form it should take. Most questions that arise from the report are best addressed in that session. You can also reach us at info@earley.com at any time.
Your AI project is already underway. Is the foundation ready for it?
A clear picture of where your AI readiness is strong and where it creates risk.