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AI readiness for engineering companies

Where is your organisation on the AI ladder?

AI's value to an engineering company rises through five levels: find, structure, connect, act and learn. Each depends on the one below. This check shows the level you can build on, how well you manage where your AI runs and how secure it is, how ready you are for new product rules, and what to do in the next 13 weeks.

Two ways to take it: quick check, 10 questions · about 3 minutes; or full assessment, up to 55 questions · 12 to 15 minutes. The AI Ladder Check needs JavaScript to run; if it has not loaded, book a conversation instead.

What the full assessment covers

The five levels How far AI can help your organisation today: find, structure, connect, act and learn. Each level depends on the one below.
Where your AI runs Whether you know where AI processes your data and code, and whether that is a deliberate choice.
AI security Whether the AI systems you use or build are secured like any other system: untrusted input, data leakage, supply chain, agent permissions and testing.
Regulatory readiness Readiness for the rules now arriving for connected products. Regulatory dates change: check official sources before relying on them.

About the AI Ladder Check

Who it is for. Leadership teams in engineering and product companies who want to know where AI would actually add value, and whether the basics are in place to get it.

How long it takes. Two ways to take it: quick check, 10 questions · about 3 minutes; or full assessment, up to 55 questions · 12 to 15 minutes. Your answers stay in your browser until you ask for a result by email; you can stop and come back.

What you get. Your level on the five levels of AI value with the confidence of that reading, a score for each area, flags for anything that needs attention first, and a 13-week plan. The full assessment can add an AI-written briefing and email you the result.

How it works. Deterministic scoring from published rules, built from the essay series on AI in engineering companies; no model is involved in the scoring. The same engine is available to AI assistants through the site's MCP server.

Where it comes from.

What comes next. If the result raises questions about your own organisation, the related service is AI Opportunity Workshop, or book 30 minutes to talk it through.