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How close are you to AI outcomes?

Take the 3-minute assessment to find out

AI projects stall for two reasons: the data couldn't support the decision, or nothing changed once the answer arrived. They need different fixes, so they are scored separately.

Readiness. The data behind the decision is accessible, current, and trusted enough to act on.
Adoption. The organization changes how it works when the answer arrives.

Every question asks about something observable: an artifact, a cadence, a consequence.

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AI Outcomes Score (Example)

44
of 80
Target
60
Readiness, 28 of 40
Adoption, 16 of 40
Stage: Ready but not adopting

AI is built. But it's not being used.

Where you're stalled

Between Readiness and Adoption, understand which is holding you back.

R0/3
Your answers 

The ones that cost you points, quoted with their scores, plus the ones you couldn't answer, which are usually the finding.

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A 90-day action plan to deploy AI

What to do first, what to leave alone, how to measure success.

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Answered questions stay visible. Click on a previous question to change an answer.

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What 32 of 40 looks like
Readiness

Metrics governed where a system can read them. Two systems for a cross-functional question, not five. Minutes to act, not weeks. Recurring decisions documented, current and owned. Access that follows your role. Actions recorded well enough to test a past decision. Almost no reporting assembled by hand. Published numbers almost never corrected.

Adoption

A named executive whose remit this is, not a committee. Usage reviewed on a set cadence. Targets that affect plans, resourcing or reviews when missed. Switching it off would stop real processes. Money from several operating budgets. Someone hired or reassigned for it. What people build maintained as shared infrastructure. A leader using it themselves in the last week.

How this was scored

Two axes, never one

Readiness and adoption are scored separately, 0 to 40 each. A single blended maturity number would hide the exact gap the plan is built around.

Behavioral answers only

Nothing asked how committed leadership is. It asked whether an executive had looked at usage data in the last 90 days, and whether anything would break if access disappeared.

Points, not percentages

Eight questions per axis, four options each, scoring 0, 1, 3 or 5. Eight questions at 5 points is 40, so each axis is worth exactly 40 and the two add to 80. Nothing is scaled or rounded: the answer table below sums to your score. Quadrant boundaries sit at 20 of 40.

Why "not sure" isn't zero

It leaves the denominator instead. Your readiness score is the points you earned scaled across the questions you could answer, and the ones you couldn't are listed back to you rather than counted against you.

Why adoption has no "not sure"

On those questions, not knowing is the answer. If you cannot name who owns AI outcomes, ownership is not legible, which has the same practical effect as nobody owning it. The lowest option absorbs that.

What this cannot see

Self-reported answers about your own organization. It is a structured argument with yourself, not an audit. The value is in which questions you could not answer cleanly.

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Willing but not ready
Ready and adopting
Not ready, not adopting
Ready but not adopting
AI Adoption →
Data & Process Readiness →
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What moved your score the most

The answers that cost you the most points. 

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R marks a readiness question, A an adoption question.

What you couldn't answer

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Excluded from scoring, not counted as a zero.

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Your 90-day action plan and the scoring methodology

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