Yes. Day Seven's AI readiness scorecard is free, takes about three minutes, and scores your organisation across five areas: strategy and leadership, tools and access, skills and confidence, adoption and habits, and governance and trust. You see your result after entering your name and work email, with an overall band, a score for each area and the two moves that would move you furthest. There is no sales call required to get the score; a free consultation is offered afterwards if you want one.
Start the scorecardReadiness is not one thing. An organisation can have a Copilot licence on every desk and no idea what to use it for, or a clear strategy and no one trained to carry it out. The scorecard asks two questions in each of five areas so the result shows where the gap actually is.
| Area | Not ready | Partly ready | Ready |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy & leadership | No stated position on AI. Individuals experiment, some managers discourage it. | A leader has said "we should do something" and a budget line exists, but no priorities or guardrails are written down. | Leadership has set two or three priorities, named an owner, and published simple rules on what is allowed. |
| Tools & access | People use free consumer tools with personal logins, or nothing. | Licences bought for some teams; usage unknown; no approved-tool list. | An approved-tool list matched to where the data lives (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Claude or ChatGPT business plans), with usage tracked. |
| Skills & confidence | Most staff have not used an AI tool for work. A few enthusiasts; most people unsure what is allowed. | Some teams have had an introductory session. Skill varies widely; no shared prompts or examples. | Teams have been trained on their own work, share a prompt library, and champions exist in each function. |
| Adoption & habits | AI is rarely used day to day, and people give up after a poor result. | Some people use AI occasionally, but habits and confidence vary widely. | AI is embedded in how people work, and teams know how to refine and retry when a first result is poor. |
| Governance & trust | No policy. Nobody knows what has been pasted where. | A policy exists, usually one page, but it is not tied to the tools in use or reviewed. | Policy names approved tools and excluded data categories, has an owner, and is reviewed. Governance and policy work and, where relevant, ISO/IEC 42001 have been considered. |
The columns are deliberately concrete. If you can place your organisation in a column for each row, you already have most of what the scorecard will tell you; the scorecard makes it a number you can download or print and revisit in six months.
The scorecard produces an overall band and a score per area. The per-area score is the useful part; the overall band is a starting point for a conversation.
| Band | What it means | What to do next |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started (0–35%) | AI is happening in pockets, but there is no engine behind it yet. | Do not start with training. Start with a leadership session to set two or three priorities and a one-page rule on tools and data. Then a manual-process audit in one or two teams. This is the Align stage of our method. |
| Emerging (36–60%) | You have early momentum and some real users. The gap now is consistency. | Train teams on their own work in cohorts of around sixteen, with a shared prompt library and a named champion per team. Pick two or three scored use cases and run a short pilot on each. This is Enable and Prove. |
| Scaling (61–80%) | Strong foundations. Most of the remaining value is locked in adoption and confidence, not tools. | Embed: playbooks, shared standards, champions across functions, measurement reported to leadership. Consider a hackathon or Day Seven Sprint to take a real problem to a working build. |
| Embedded (81–100%) | You are ahead of most organisations. The focus shifts to advanced use, deeper governance and keeping your edge. | Keep improving advanced use, governance and measurement. Consider ISO/IEC 42001 if you need to evidence your governance to customers or regulators. |
Two patterns come up often. Organisations with strong Tools and weak Skills bought licences before anyone had a reason to use them; the fix is training tied to specific tasks, not more licences. Organisations with strong Strategy and weak Governance have a direction but no rules, which is the combination most likely to produce a data incident. Your lowest area is normally where the next quarter's effort should go.
Several large vendors publish their own. They are worth knowing about, and they answer a different question.
Cisco AI Readiness Index. Cisco publishes an annual global survey and a free self-assessment that benchmarks organisations across six pillars, placing them in one of four tiers (Pacesetters, Chasers, Followers, Laggards). It is oriented towards enterprise IT: infrastructure, network, data centralisation, security and the ability to deploy at scale. It is useful if you want to compare yourself with large organisations by region and industry. It says little about whether your finance team can use Copilot on Monday.
Microsoft's AI readiness assessment. Microsoft publishes readiness material and assessment tools through Microsoft Learn and its Cloud Adoption Framework, aimed at organisations planning AI on Azure and Microsoft 365. It is thorough on architecture, data platform and responsible-AI practice, and it naturally leads towards Microsoft's own roadmap. It suits an IT or transformation lead planning a platform decision.
Day Seven's scorecard. Vendor-neutral and built for business teams rather than infrastructure. It asks whether the people who do the work have direction, tools, skills, habits and rules. It does not ask about GPUs, network capacity or data-centre strategy. It takes three minutes, and it leads to a conversation about training and governance rather than a platform purchase.
| Cisco AI Readiness Index | Microsoft AI readiness material | Day Seven scorecard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary audience | Enterprise IT and CIO | IT, architecture, transformation leads | Business and team leaders, HR and L&D, operations |
| Focus | Infrastructure, data, security, scale | Platform, data, responsible AI on Microsoft | Strategy, tools, skills, adoption and governance |
| Tool neutrality | Neutral on model; infrastructure-led | Microsoft-oriented | Neutral (Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) |
| Time | Longer survey | Varies by tool | About three minutes |
| Output | Tier and global benchmark | Roadmap-style recommendations | Five area scores, a band and two next steps |
None of these is wrong. If you are deciding on a data platform, use the vendor tools. If you are deciding what to do with your teams this quarter, the scorecard is the faster route.
You enter your first name and work email, then see your result on screen straight away: the overall band, the five area scores and the two moves that would move you furthest. A copy and short roadmap are also emailed to you. You can download or print the report.
If you would like to talk it through, there is an optional free consultation. We look at the two lowest-scoring areas with you and suggest what a first step could look like, whether that is a leadership session, a cohort workshop on Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, a workflow automation course, a hackathon, or governance consulting. If a training proposal makes sense, we send one; we get back to you within one working day. If it does not, we say so.
There is no obligation, and you do not need to book the consultation to see or keep your score.
Start the scorecardThe person who will own the answer. That is usually a head of operations, HR or L&D, a transformation lead, or a director in a business of ten to a few hundred people. It works best when two or three people complete it independently and compare results, because leadership and front-line staff frequently place the organisation in different columns for Skills & confidence and Governance & trust. The gap between their answers is itself a finding.
Our work runs through four stages: Align (leadership sets direction and guardrails), Enable (cohort training on the team's own work), Prove (pilots and sprints that ship something measurable), and Embed (champions, playbooks, shared standards). Governance runs through all four. The five areas of the scorecard map onto those stages: Strategy & leadership and Governance & trust sit in Align, Skills & confidence in Enable, Adoption & habits in Prove and Embed, and Tools & access across all of them. Your band tells you which stage to start at, so nobody sits through training their organisation is not ready to use, and nobody spends a quarter on strategy when the team just needs to be shown Copilot on its own emails.
For a practical way to identify and score use cases, read how business teams automate workflows with AI or see the workflow automation course.
Yes. Day Seven's scorecard at the AI readiness scorecard is free, takes about three minutes, and shows your result after you enter your name and work email, across five areas. Cisco and Microsoft also publish free assessments aimed at enterprise IT and platform decisions.
About three minutes. It asks two questions in each of five areas, and you do not need to gather any data beforehand. Answer from what you know today.
You need to enter your first name and work email before you see your score on screen. A free consultation is offered afterwards and is optional. There is no obligation.
That leadership has set direction and rules, the tools people use are approved and matched to the work, teams have the skills and confidence to use them, adoption is part of day-to-day work, and clear governance exists. The table on this page shows what each of those looks like at three levels.
No. It was built for business teams of ten upwards, including SMEs and departments within larger organisations. The Cisco and Microsoft assessments are the ones oriented to large enterprise IT.
Start with Align: a leadership session to agree priorities and a one-page rule on tools and data, followed by a manual-process audit in one or two teams. Training comes after that, not before it.
Yes. Retaking it after a quarter of work is the simplest way to show progress to leadership. Keep the first report so you have a baseline.
The result is yours whether or not you talk to us. If you take up the free consultation, we will suggest a first step, which may or may not be training, and send a proposal only if it makes sense. Cost depends on group size and format.
Three minutes, five areas, your result on screen after you enter your name and work email.
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