AI Readiness Assessment
Understand the work before choosing the AI
AI readiness assessment & workflow audit
OverviewService overview
The AI Readiness Assessment is a workflow audit before any tool is chosen. We interview leadership and frontline staff, map how work actually flows, find the bottlenecks, and rank improvement opportunities by impact and difficulty.
- Price
- Fixed-scope engagement, priced per company size and number of workflows reviewed.
What is included
- 01Executive and frontline interviews
- 02Workflow mapping (and on-site shadowing where useful)
- 03Bottleneck analysis
- 04Assessment of AI, SaaS, API and web-based options
- 05Impact × difficulty prioritization
- 06An AX Opportunity Map and roadmap
- 07ROI hypotheses and, where helpful, a prototype
Who it is for
- Companies that tried an AI tool and saw little adoption
- Leaders who need a fact-based view of where time is lost
- Organizations preparing an AI or DX budget
What you get
- A ranked list of improvement opportunities with rough ROI
- A realistic roadmap your team agrees with
- Confidence about what not to buy
FlowHow it works
- 01Leadership interviews
- 02Frontline interviews
- 03Workflow mapping
- 04Shadowing (where useful)
- 05Bottleneck analysis
- 06Options with AI, SaaS, APIs and web
- 07Impact × difficulty prioritization
- 08AX roadmap
InsightsRelated guides
Related reading
- GuideRegional JapanBusiness Handover in Japanese SMEs: How to Keep Work Running Through Retirements, Transfers and SuccessionA business handover passes the day-to-day procedures, judgment calls and relationships of a role to a successor. It differs from business succession (transferring ownership and management), but overlaps with it through “intellectual assets” such as skills and customer ties [1]. In Japan, 44.2% of establishments report problems with skills transfer, rising to 65.8% in manufacturing [2]. Because an open-ended employee can leave two weeks after giving notice [3], the preparation has to happen in normal times: keep a task inventory, name a second person for critical work, store files in shared locations, and write procedures together with the judgment behind them.Read
- Regional JapanJapan's Labor Shortage and AI: How Regional Companies Can AdaptRegional Japanese companies can offset hiring difficulties by using AI for repeatable, text- and data-heavy work, such as inquiries, reporting, data entry and internal knowledge search, and by rolling it out one workflow at a time with frontline staff involved from day one.Read
- AI TransformationWhat Is AX (AI Transformation)? A Practical Definition for Japanese SMEsAX (AI transformation) is the redesign of business processes on the assumption that AI can draft, analyze and assist with decisions. DX digitizes existing work. AX changes which work people do at all, freeing time for judgment, relationships and new business.Read
FAQ
AI Readiness Assessment: FAQ
What is an AX Opportunity Map?
It is a one-page view of your business processes that shows where AI or automation could save time or reduce errors, rated by expected impact and implementation difficulty.
Will you recommend specific tools?
Yes, but only after the workflow analysis. We are vendor-neutral and often recommend improving existing tools before adding new ones.
Contact
Tell us about your business. We will suggest a realistic first step.
Not sure where AI fits yet? That is the best time to talk. We will help you sort out priorities, whether you are a regional Japanese company or an international partner.