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ARQS AI Readiness Check · free helper for the AI Readiness Audit

Is your business
ready for AI?

Score 25 plain statements across data, tools, security, people and strategy. See your readiness level and the gaps to fix first, list the data and tools you already have, and export a prep sheet to bring to an AI Readiness Audit. Free, and it sends nothing.

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25statements
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Data · tools · security · people · strategy

Most AI projects stall on the basics: scattered data, no rules, nobody in charge.

Before you buy a tool or book an audit, it helps to know where you stand. The self-check uses the same five domains as the ARQS AI Readiness Audit, so the answers, the gaps and your data and tool lists carry straight into the audit intake.

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Practice on fiction

Sample: a made-up Victoria property care company.

Fourteen staff, six data sets, four tools (one of them an unapproved AI chat account) and a score in the Emerging band, so every result has something to show. Clear it and answer for your own business.

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A score you can explain

Each statement is Not yet, Started, Partly, Mostly or Fully. Domain scores and an overall level (Foundations first, Emerging, Ready to pilot, Ready to scale) come straight from your answers.

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Gaps with a next step

Every weak answer becomes a ranked gap with one practical next step. "Not sure" answers become questions to settle before or during the audit.

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Data and tool inventory

List where your data lives, who owns it, whether it holds personal data and whether it can be exported, plus the tools you pay for and any AI features in use. Checks flag what needs attention.

The tool

Your AI readiness self-check

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Readiness shape

Gaps to work on

    Questions for the audit

      Inventory checks

        Want an expert read on it?

        The ARQS AI Readiness Audit is the paid review: a five-domain readiness score, an evidence summary, ranked recommendations and a 30-day action plan. Bring this prep sheet to the intake.

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        What this is, and isn't. A free, rule-based self-assessment that runs in your browser. Your score is your own answers, not a measurement or certification by ARQS, and it is not legal, privacy or security advice. It makes no AI call and sends nothing: you copy or download the prep sheet. Everything is saved in this browser only; save a .json file to move it to another device. Never put passwords, API keys, card numbers or customer records in it. Need it faster? See the Priority audit. More free tools: AI Workflow Mapper, Lead Follow-Up Planner and the whole lab at ARQS Software.