ARE YOU AI READY?

AI Readiness Assessment

The technology is rarely the hard part.

Most organizations stall on AI not because of the tools, but because of uncertainty at the top. Leaders who aren't sure what they don't know. Teams waiting for direction that never arrives. This assessment is built for that reality: it diagnoses both the operational opportunity and the human conditions that determine whether AI actually takes hold.

Lens 01

Operational Clarity

Where AI creates genuine leverage in your workflow, processes and systems, ranked by impact and sequenced for realistic adoption.

Lens 02

Human Readiness

Whether your leadership team, organizational culture and people are psychologically positioned to lead AI adoption, not just survive it.

Assessment choices

Three ways to start

Choose the depth that matches the decisions in front of you.

Founders and small leadership teams

The Leadership Diagnostic

$8,500 USD

Fixed fee  /  Delivered in 5 to 7 business days

  • 60-minute structured executive intake session
  • Up to 2 stakeholder conversations
  • AI workflow and friction mapping
  • Leader Confidence and AI Anxiety Inventory
  • Top 5 AI opportunities ranked
  • AI tool recommendations with rationale
  • AI Readiness Snapshot
  • 30-day AI Action Plan
  • Executive findings memo
  • 30-minute executive debrief call
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Most comprehensive fixed fee

Leadership teams and growing organizations

The Strategic Assessment

$30,500 USD

Fixed fee  /  Delivered in 10 to 14 business days

  • Multi-stakeholder interviews (up to 4)
  • AI Readiness Index™ across 6 dimensions
  • Leadership alignment and decision-confidence review
  • Change readiness and psychological safety audit
  • People, culture and operating rhythm integration recommendations
  • Workflow friction and adoption barrier analysis
  • Impact-effort Prioritization Matrix
  • 90-day AI adoption roadmap
  • Board-style executive summary
  • Full branded findings report
  • 60-minute executive debrief call
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Organizations of 50+ with board accountability

The Board Briefing

From $60,000 USD

Custom scope  /  Proposal on request

  • 10 stakeholder interviews
  • Enterprise AI Readiness Index™
  • Executive cognitive load and AI fatigue assessment
  • Organizational identity and culture diagnostic
  • Leadership alignment heatmap
  • Competitive landscape benchmarking
  • AI governance and decision rights review
  • Policy and liability exposure review
  • AI Adoption and Trust Risk Register
  • Strategic AI Opportunity Portfolio
  • 90-day Board Action Plan
  • Board and C-suite presentation deck
  • Live board briefing (in person or virtual)
  • 30-day follow-on advisory support
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What you receive

Decision-ready outputs

Every deliverable is built to be used in the next leadership meeting, not filed.

AI Maturity Map

A scored baseline across six dimensions: operational, data, governance, talent, culture and leadership confidence.

Human Readiness Profile

An honest picture of where your team's confidence, anxiety and psychological safety sit, and what that means for adoption velocity.

Priority Matrix

Impact vs. effort ranking of your top AI opportunities, sequenced for what your people can realistically absorb.

Risk and Governance Gap Report

Policy, liability and oversight gaps identified before AI is deployed at scale, including workforce impact considerations.

90-Day Adoption Roadmap

A phased plan that accounts for both implementation milestones and the change management work that makes them stick.

Leadership Confidence Brief

A concise guide for executives on how to lead AI conversations with their teams, boards and stakeholders, without overpromising.

The AI Readiness Index™

Six dimensions we assess

Three operational. Three human. Together they show whether AI will take hold.

Operational

Workflow and Process

Where time is lost, decisions stall and AI can create genuine leverage.

Operational

Data and Infrastructure

Whether the foundational conditions exist for AI to function reliably.

Operational

Governance and Risk

Policy gaps, liability exposure and oversight structures before deployment.

Human

Leadership Confidence

How senior leaders understand, frame and feel equipped to sponsor AI adoption.

Human

Change Readiness

Psychological safety, resistance patterns and team appetite for disruption.

Human

Culture and Identity

Whether the organization's identity and norms support or quietly undermine AI adoption.

Our methodology

Four steps from noise to a decision

01

Intake and Listen

Structured interviews designed to surface not just operational pain, but the unspoken anxieties that shape leadership decisions.

02

Map and Diagnose

Workflow analysis paired with a human readiness assessment across leadership, team and culture dimensions.

03

Score and Prioritize

Maturity scoring, opportunity ranking and risk identification, weighted by what your organization can actually absorb.

04

Equip and Debrief

A leadership debrief that leaves your team confident, not just informed. Decision-ready, with language they can use.

The Clarity Guarantee

If your leadership team doesn't leave the debrief with a clear point of view on AI, what to prioritize, what to protect, and how to lead the conversation internally, we'll extend the engagement at no charge until they do. We don't deliver reports that sit on shelves. We don't leave leaders more confused than we found them.

Next step

Let's get you AI assessed

I help senior leaders and boards cut through AI noise, build genuine organizational confidence and create sustainable ways of working. This assessment is designed for CHROs, COOs, CEOs and board members who understand that AI adoption is fundamentally a leadership and culture challenge, not a technology procurement decision.

AI Readiness 

Assessment

The technology is rarely the hard part.

Most organizations stall on AI not because of the tools, but because of uncertainty at the top. Leaders who aren’t sure what they don’t know. Teams waiting for direction that never arrives. This assessment is built for that reality: it diagnoses both the operational opportunity and the human conditions that determine whether AI actually takes hold.

Operational Clarity
Human Readiness

ASSESSMENT CHOICES

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WHAT YOU RECEIVE

AI maturity map
Human Readiness Profile
Priority Map
Risk Report
90 Day Adoption
Leadership Confidence

SIX DIMENSION WE ASSESS

Workflow process
Leadership confidence assessment dimension
Change Readiness
Data and infrastructure assessment dimension
Governance Risk
Culture and Identity

OUR METHODOLOGY

Step 1: intake and listen
Step 2: map and diagnose
Step 3: score and prioritize
Step 4: equip and debrief

The Clarity Guarantee

If your leadership team doesn’t leave the debrief with a clear point of view on AI, what to prioritize, what to protect, and how to lead the conversation internally, we’ll extend the engagement at no charge until they do. We don’t deliver reports that sit on shelves. We don’t leave leaders more confused than we found them.

nStratagem helps senior leaders and boards cut through AI noise, build genuine organizational confidence, and create sustainable ways of working. This assessment is designed for CHROs, COOs, CEOs, and board members who understand that AI adoption is fundamentally a leadership and culture challenge, not a technology procurement decision.

Let’s Get You AI Assessed