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The Complete Guide to AI Readiness Assessment

Before building AI agents, you need to know where you stand. This guide walks through the four dimensions of AI readiness and how to evaluate your organization.

Sixfactors Team·Product
February 5, 2026
8 min read
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What Is an AI Readiness Assessment?

An AI readiness assessment evaluates your organization across the dimensions that determine whether AI agent deployments will succeed or fail. It's the difference between building on solid ground and building on sand.

The Four Dimensions

Technical Infrastructure

Your technology stack determines what's possible. Key questions:

  • Do your core systems have APIs?
  • Is your data accessible and well-structured?
  • What monitoring and observability exists?
  • Are there security and compliance requirements?
A team with modern APIs and clean data can deploy agents in days. A team with legacy systems and siloed data needs a different approach — but can still succeed with the right strategy.

Operational Processes

Agents automate workflows, so you need to understand your workflows first:

  • What are the high-frequency, repetitive tasks?
  • Where do handoffs between people create delays?
  • Which processes have clear rules vs. require judgment?
  • What's the cost of errors in each workflow?

Team Capability

Your team doesn't need to be technical to manage AI agents — but they do need to understand what agents can and can't do:

  • Can your team define clear success criteria?
  • Do they understand the concept of prompts and instructions?
  • Is there willingness to experiment and iterate?
  • Who will own agent performance?

Strategic Alignment

The best technical implementation fails if it doesn't align with business goals:

  • Which business metrics will agents improve?
  • Does leadership support the initiative?
  • Is there budget for iteration, not just initial deployment?
  • How will you measure ROI?

Scoring Your Readiness

Each dimension is scored on a scale of 1-5:

  1. Not Ready — Significant gaps need addressing before AI deployment
  2. Early Stage — Foundation exists but needs strengthening
  3. Developing — Ready for pilot projects with limited scope
  4. Advanced — Ready for production deployment across teams
  5. Leading — Ready for complex, multi-agent systems

What Happens After the Assessment

The assessment generates three deliverables:

  1. Readiness Score — Your overall score with breakdowns by dimension
  2. Agent Recommendations — Specific agents matched to your workflows, prioritized by impact
  3. Implementation Roadmap — A week-by-week plan with clear milestones

Take the Free Assessment

The Sixfactors AI Assessment takes about 20 minutes. You'll answer questions about your team's workflows, technical infrastructure, and business goals. At the end, you'll receive your personalized readiness report with actionable next steps.

No consultants. No sales calls. Just a clear picture of where to start.

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