Crescentek

AI Readiness & Strategy

Before you build anything, know where AI fits.

A focused 2-week AI readiness audit. We score your data, process, governance, and team maturity, identify the 3 highest-ROI AI opportunities for your business, and deliver a prioritised plan with effort estimates. Fixed fee. No fluff.

Fixed fee €4,500
2 weeks · Ireland-based
Report + roadmap deliverable
AI Readiness Scorecard
Sample · Northway Ltd.
Overall readiness
Mid-stage · Ready for piloting
62
Data quality
0 / 80
Process clarity
0 / 75
Team capability
0 / 70
Governance
0 / 70
Tooling
0 / 80
ROI clarity
0 / 75
Top blockers: Governance · ROI clarity3 high-ROI projects identified →
The six dimensions

What we score, and why.

Data quality
Is your data clean enough to feed an AI? Duplicates, gaps, fragmentation across tools. AI amplifies whatever signal is in your data — including bad signal.
Process clarity
Are your workflows documented? You can't automate what isn't written down. The audit surfaces tacit knowledge that needs to be captured before AI joins the loop.
Team capability
Does anyone in your team understand AI well enough to maintain it? We score capability gaps and recommend training vs hiring vs outsourcing decisions.
Governance
Policies for AI use, data handling, EU AI Act readiness, internal review processes. Low score here is the #1 reason pilots don't reach production.
Tooling
Do your existing tools have APIs we can integrate with? Are licences enterprise-tier where we'll need them to be? Hidden blockers we surface early.
ROI clarity
Can you measure success of an AI project? If you can't draw the before/after picture in numbers, we'll spend a week building the measurement framework first.
How the audit runs

Two weeks. Five interviews. One real plan.

1
Day 1-2
Kickoff + data room
1-hour kickoff with the founder/leadership. Access to your tools, sample documents, key workflows. We build the lay of the land.
2
Day 3-7
Stakeholder interviews
30-45 min calls with 4-5 key team members across functions. We surface the manual pain points, hidden bottlenecks, and 'shadow AI' people are already using.
3
Day 8-10
Opportunity ranking
We map every viable AI opportunity, score by effort × impact × risk, and pick the top 3 you should pursue. Bad ideas killed early.
4
Day 11-12
Report + presentation
Written report: scorecard, top 3 opportunities, effort/cost/timeline for each, governance recommendations. 60-min readout to your leadership. Q&A.
What you take home

The deliverable.

Readiness scorecard
Your scores across the 6 dimensions, with specific blockers identified per dimension and recommended actions to raise each score.
Top 3 prioritised opportunities
Per opportunity: the workflow, the AI capability needed, expected ROI, effort estimate (€), recommended sequence. Real projects, not abstractions.
12-month AI roadmap
Sequenced plan starting with the safest high-ROI project, building team capability through implementation. Living document — you adjust as you go.
Governance starter
Recommended internal AI use policies, EU AI Act readiness gaps for your business, vendor evaluation checklist, data handling boundaries.
Right for you if
  • You're convinced AI is relevant but unclear where to start
  • Your team has read about AI but not built anything
  • You're getting pitched 'AI solutions' and want a neutral filter
  • You want a roadmap, not a vendor lock-in
  • You have budget for €4.5k diagnostic before committing €40k+
Not the right fit if
  • You already know exactly what you want to build — go straight to scoping
  • You're under 5 staff — the ROI math rarely works at that scale
  • You need a research deliverable, not actionable build advice
  • You're hoping AI solves an underlying business model problem
  • Leadership isn't aligned on whether AI is a priority
Frequently asked

Readiness audit questions.

No — the deliverable is action-ready: 3 specific projects with effort estimates, sequenced. We use the report as the basis of any follow-on build engagement, so it's both diagnostic AND a project brief. If you take the report to another vendor, it still works.
Yes — if the right answer is 'don't build this, buy a SaaS' we'll say so. If it's outside our wheelhouse (e.g. specialised vertical AI) we recommend specialist vendors. Reputation > revenue.
Yes — 100% credit against any build engagement we do in the following 90 days. Effectively makes the audit free if you proceed with us.
Founder/CEO for 1-2 short sessions, plus 4-5 stakeholders across functions (sales, ops, finance, customer-facing) for 30-45 min each. We work around your calendar.
Minimal. We send a 1-page pre-read with question prompts. The interview process surfaces what we need. No spreadsheets to prepare.
That's a useful outcome too — disagreement now is cheaper than building the wrong thing. The report makes the trade-offs explicit so leadership can have an informed disagreement instead of an ambient one.
Then build

After the audit

AI Integration
Layer AI onto existing systems
AI Training
Bring your team up to speed
EU AI Act Compliance
Governance work-stream

Two weeks. A real plan. €4,500.

Credit applied 100% against any build work you do with us afterwards. The cleanest first step into AI for a serious business.