AI Readiness Assessment
AI success starts with a clear plan. Whether you’re starting your first AI project, struggling to scale, or future-proofing your data, we deliver a custom roadmap to ensure your next investment drives measurable value – not costly mistakes.
What is the Simpson Associates AI Readiness Assessment?
Artificial Intelligence offers huge opportunities. Yet without proper preparation, organisations can waste millions on tools that underperform and launch initiatives that stall.
The most successful AI projects are built on readiness – not just technology.
Simpson Associates AI Readiness Assessment empowers your organisation to move faster and smarter, providing you with a comprehensive evaluation of your organisations AI maturity across data, people, process, technology and strategy.
Through expert-led workshops and technical assessments, you will uncover hidden barriers like data quality or governance gaps that could derail your AI ambitions while identifying opportunities that build momentum.
Whether you’re exploring your first AI use case or innovating in line with the UK Government’s AI Action Plan, our AI readiness Assessment ensures your investment in AI delivers tangible results.
Benefits & Deliverables
Strategic Blueprint for AI Success: Replace uncertainty with a crystal-clear roadmap, tailored to your organisation’s maturity level, ensuring your AI investments deliver measurable business value.
Accelerate your AI Decision-Making: Use AI to fast-track your team’s proactivity, automate manual tasks, and free up expert time to focus on unlocking new insights and strategic thinking.
Prevent Costly Mistakes: De-risk your investment by identifying data quality issues, governance gaps and infrastructure limitations before they interfere with your AI initiatives, saving significant time and resources.
Unify your Team: Create shared understanding across IT, business and leadership teams about AI readiness, priorities, and investment requirements, successfully turning your AI ambition into coordinated action.
Future-Proof your Data Estate: Establish a scalable, secure and unified data foundation for continuous improvement, aligned with AI consultancy best practice and data governance principles.
AI Maturity Assessment
Through a dedicated discovery workshop, you will gain a comprehensive benchmark against the pillars of AI Maturity. We’ll help you uncover your AI ambitions, pinpoint challenges and identify key opportunities-clearly defining your starting point and the transformative outcomes in reach.
AI Enablement Roadmap
You’ll receive a customised, strategic blueprint for AI excellence. Confidently chart your path with our roadmap that includes technical assessments, integration details and required costings – designed to serve as your definitive business case for securing, funding and adopting Microsoft AI best practices.
Practical and Actionable Guidance
Transform insight with expert guidance on responsible AI. You’ll receive clear, actionable advice on data privacy, compliance and ethical frameworks – ensuring your AI strategy is both powerful and principled from day one.
Leave with AI Confidence
Our experts will ensure your AI success is sustainable. You and your team will gain a clear and shared understanding of your AI maturity, giving you the confidence you need to begin planning how you can embed AI practices across your organisation, successfully.
Who should use the AI Readiness Assessment?
The Simpson Associates AI Readiness Assessment service is essential for CIO’s, CDO’s and Business Leaders who are facing specific challenges or:
You’re an AI starter: Gain confidence and build buy-in among stakeholders by demonstrating a clear, data-driven path to successful AI adoption, eliminating uncertainty about where to begin.
You’re an AI assessor: Measure your AI maturity and evaluate how prepared your teams, technology and data are for AI adoption.
You’re an AI scaler: Securely scale your existing AI initiatives by ensuring alignment across all teams on AI strategy, priorities and investment requirements.
You’re an AI governor: Meet regulatory and ethical obligations while exploring transformative AI opportunities responsibly.
You’re an AI innovator: Future-proof your estate, stay ahead of AI trends and are beginning to consider current tools such as Agentic AI.
Outcomes
No matter your organisation’s size or sector, our AI Readiness Assessment provides the confidence, clarity and capability to pursue AI strategically. It helps you understand your current AI maturity, address critical gaps, and build a secure, scalable foundation for achieving measurable business value through artificial intelligence.
Why Simpson Associates
At Simpson Associates, we don’t just assess AI readiness – we enable it.
Choosing Simpson Associates means you gain a data transformation partner committed to turning your ambition into real-world business value. You benefit from over three decades of experience delivering data modernisation and AI consulting services. We are a leading Microsoft Partner of the Year 2024 and Solutions Partner, trusted by both the public and private sector.
Whether you are harnessing current AI tools or building a data-driven culture, with Simpson Associates, you gain a long-term data partner, committed to turning your AI ambition into real-world results.
Ready to discover your AI potential?
Let’s assess your readiness and build a strategic foundation your organisation needs for confident AI adoption. Talk to our AI and data transformation experts today.