This free AI readiness assessment scores your organization across data, systems, governance, skills and workflow clarity in about five minutes. Paloren also runs a paid readiness assessment, from $8,000 over 2 to 3 weeks, that turns the score into a prioritized gap list with owners and a costed first project.
Enter your own figures below. The results table and chart update as you type. The default scenario is pre-loaded so you can see the method before you change anything.
Find the strongest place to start.
| Result | Value |
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Every output comes from the formulas below. Nothing is drawn from a survey, a client result or a third-party benchmark. The figures are model estimates based on the inputs you supply.
| Output | Formula | What it means |
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| Weighted score | data x 0.25 + systems x 0.2 + governance x 0.2 + skills x 0.2 + clarity x 0.15 | 0 to 10 total across five readiness dimensions. |
| Constraint | minimum of the five input scores | The dimension most likely to stall a project. |
| First project readiness | clarity score | Workflow clarity alone, because a clear first workflow is the strongest predictor of finishing. |
A firm scores 5 on data, 6 on systems, 4 on governance, 5 on skills and 7 on workflow clarity. The weighted total is 5.3. The constraint is governance, but workflow clarity is strong, so a bounded first project is realistic once governance catches up.
| Input | Value |
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| data | 5 |
| systems | 6 |
| governance | 4 |
| skills | 5 |
| clarity | 7 |
This model is deliberately narrow. It values time and direct cost only. It does not price quality improvement, customer satisfaction, risk reduction or revenue lift, because those need evidence from your own operation.
Adoption is the most common source of error. A system that works in a pilot rarely hits its full share on day one. For planning, assume a ramp and test the conservative case.
The model also ignores integration difficulty. Two systems with the same name can differ enormously in effort. List each integration and its owner before you commit budget.
Finally, the figures are not a quote. They are a planning tool. Use them to frame a conversation, then get a scoped proposal based on your actual systems and workflows.
It measures whether the conditions for a working AI project exist: clean data, accessible systems, governance, team skills and a clear workflow.
Readiness is not a general maturity score. It is a project-level question. A business can be ready for one workflow and completely unready for another.
AI systems produce poor output from poor input, so data quality limits every downstream result.
If records are inconsistent or unavailable, fix that before investing in models or agents. It is the cheapest way to avoid a stalled project.
Weak governance does not stop a pilot, but it does limit what can be deployed safely.
Start with read-only workflows, keep a human in the loop for decisions and log every action. Then build the governance layer in parallel with the pilot.
A maturity model describes an organization. A readiness assessment produces a project brief.
The output here is a first workflow with a named owner, an acceptance test and a clear boundary. That is what makes it actionable rather than descriptive.
Do not abandon AI. Pick one narrow workflow with high clarity and low risk, and use it to build the missing capability.
A low overall score often hides one strong dimension. Find that strength, start there, and let the project generate the evidence and momentum for the next one.
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An AI readiness assessment measures how prepared an organization is to run AI on real work: data quality and access, systems and integrations, governance, team skills, and whether the target workflow has a clear owner. It produces a baseline, a gap list and a prioritized first project.
Paloren's paid readiness assessment starts at $8,000 and runs 2 to 3 weeks. Prices are indicative until scoped, and the deliverables are listed on this page.
The calculator gives you a weighted score and shows which dimension is the constraint. The paid assessment interviews your team, checks the actual systems and data, and delivers prioritized gaps with named owners, a pilot acceptance outline and a costed estimate for the first project.
The decision at the end is go, revise or stop, with evidence behind it.
No. It is a five-minute estimate based on numbers you supply, with no survey data or benchmarks behind it. It is useful for framing the conversation; it is not a diagnostic of your actual systems.
Find the lowest-weighted dimension that is also blocking a specific workflow, and fix that first. A low governance score with strong workflow clarity usually means a bounded pilot can start once the access and review rules are written down.
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