Alchemy Playbooks — AI Readiness Scorecard

Is your business
AI-ready?

Most businesses know they need to do something with AI. Far fewer know where they actually stand. This free, 10-question assessment gives you an honest picture — across strategy, culture, data, use cases, and momentum. No email required. No right answers.

10Questions
3Minutes
4Result Bands
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What It Is

Ten questions.
Five dimensions. One honest score.

Score each statement from 1 to 5. There are no right answers — only an honest picture. At the end you'll receive a score out of 50, a result band, key gaps by dimension, and proposed next steps. It takes about three minutes, and nothing is sent anywhere — your answers stay in this browser tab.

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Strategy & Vision
02
Use Case Identification
03
Data Readiness
04
Cultural Readiness
05
Leadership Alignment
06
ROI & Measurement
07
Experimentation Culture
08
External Awareness
09
Workforce Development
10
Momentum & Commitment
Alchemy Consulting
AI Readiness Assessment

Begin the Assessment

Answer honestly — there's no scoring against you, only a clearer picture of where to focus next. Use the slider for each statement, from "don't agree at all" to "strongly agree."

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4Result Bands
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Alchemy Consulting — Your Results
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What This Means For You
    Score Breakdown by Dimension
    How I Use It

    Four bands.
    One conversation starter.

    Step 01
    A score, not a sales pitch

    The assessment is genuinely free, with no email gate and nothing sent anywhere. The point is an honest mirror — most leadership teams are surprised by where the gaps actually are, and that's the useful bit.

    Step 02
    A breakdown by dimension, not just a number

    The overall score out of 50 matters less than the pattern underneath it. An organisation strong on Strategy but weak on Data Readiness has a very different next step to one strong on Culture but weak on Leadership Alignment.

    Step 03
    A starting point for the right conversation

    Each result band comes with a specific next step — an Opportunity Session, a Sprint, a Scale Programme, or a Partnership — calibrated to where the organisation actually is, not where it wishes it was.

    Step 04
    Retake it as things change

    Readiness isn't static. Many of the leadership teams I work with retake this every few months — it's a quick, honest way to see whether the gaps are closing, and where to focus next.

    AI Curious
    Score 10–20

    Standing at the starting line — exactly where most businesses are. The opportunity is identifying 2–3 high-value use cases that deliver visible results fast.

    AI Exploring
    Score 21–35

    Genuine intent and some real building blocks — but something is holding you back. Usually uncertainty about ROI, internal resistance, or a strategy too vague to act on.

    AI Advancing
    Score 36–44

    Moved beyond curiosity into genuine action — one or more initiatives underway. The risk now isn't inaction, it's diffusion across too many small pilots.

    AI Leading
    Score 45–50

    Rare company — AI has moved from the IT agenda onto the strategy agenda. The challenge now is pace and ambition, not foundations.

    How I Work

    From scorecard
    to working plan.

    AI Curious
    The AI Opportunity Session

    A 90-minute working session to map your top AI opportunities, identify your readiest use cases, and leave with a practical 90-day starting plan — not a vague roadmap.

    AI Exploring
    The AI Sprint

    A focused 4-week engagement to take your best AI opportunity from idea to a running pilot — with change management built in from day one. You leave with a working proof of concept, not a slide deck.

    AI Advancing
    The AI Scale Programme

    A structured 90-day engagement to build your AI operating model — connecting initiatives to strategy, establishing governance, and developing internal capability so AI stops being a project and becomes the way you work.

    AI Leading
    The Alchemy AI Partnership

    For organisations at this level, I work as a strategic AI partner — helping you identify your boldest opportunities, design AI-native processes, and stay ahead of a rapidly evolving landscape. Not a project. A partnership.

    David Viney, Fractional CIO and AI Transformation Director

    David Viney is a Fractional CIO and AI Transformation Director with over 25 years' experience leading enterprise technology and transformation programmes at the BBC, Arup, BSI, Heathrow, and WPP — where he built WPP Open, a £250m agentic AI platform.

    He built the AI Readiness Scorecard to give leadership teams a quick, honest, evidence-based starting point — the same five dimensions he uses when diagnosing AI readiness in a Fractional CIO engagement, distilled into ten questions you can answer in three minutes.

    He holds ACA (ICAEW) and CITP (BCS) qualifications and has served as a board trustee in the human rights and international development sectors for over a decade.

    ACA — ICAEW Chartered Accountant
    CITP — BCS Chartered IT Professional
    Board Member, AIGAS (AI Governance Standards)
    Engaged with LBS Data Science & AI Institute
    Built WPP Open — a £250m agentic AI platform
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    A clearer picture
    is the first step.

    Most organisations are further behind than they'd like to admit, and further ahead than they realise — usually both at once, in different dimensions. The Scorecard is the fastest way to find out which is true for you, and where to focus next.

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