AI Readiness Assessment
An AIR assessment of organizational AI readiness — teams, systems, and workloads — priced to the size of the organization, not as a flat fee that ignores portfolio scale.
Why this engagement exists
Most organizations run AI as a collection of pilots without a readiness map. Boards ask for impact; teams deliver demos. Capital gets committed before anyone knows where the organization is actually ready — so investment lands on unready teams, unready data, and unready systems, and the portfolio stalls at pilot stage.
What it looks like in your organization
- AI initiatives multiply, but nothing graduates from pilot to production.
- Leadership cannot say which teams, systems, or workloads are genuinely ready for production AI.
- Budget is allocated by enthusiasm rather than by evidence of readiness.
- Dependencies and bottlenecks surface only after projects are already funded.
What we do and how it works
We profile the organization against the AIR readiness ontology — teams, systems, workloads, and dependencies — and produce a prioritized readiness picture with quantified gaps. AIR is billed on an organization-size band, so a 200-person shop and a 10,000-person enterprise are never the same SKU. The engagement turns that profile into a roadmap leadership can fund against.
The engagement includes
- Organization sizing and AIR band confirmation
- Readiness profiling across teams, systems, and workloads
- Dependency and gap analysis with quantified shortfalls
- Prioritized readiness roadmap sequenced to budget cycles
- Executive-ready narrative for boards and budget offices
What you take away
Every deliverable is named, formatted, and tied to the outcome it enables. Nothing ships as a deck with no use.
Readiness profile across teams, systems, and workloads
Assessment reportThe organization scored against the AIR ontology: which teams can absorb AI, which systems can serve it, and which workloads are production candidates.
Leadership sees exactly where the organization is ready — and where it is not — in one evidence-backed picture.
Dependency and gap map
Gap analysisThe bottlenecks, missing capabilities, and dependencies that will block production AI, each quantified rather than described adjectivally.
You know what must be fixed before investment, so budget is not committed into known failure points.
Prioritized readiness roadmap
RoadmapA sequenced plan closing readiness gaps in the order that unblocks the most value, aligned to your budget and planning cycles.
The AI portfolio moves from pilots to production on a sequence leadership can defend and fund.
Executive-ready narrative
Briefing deckThe readiness story framed for decision-makers: where to invest, what to fix first, and what to defer.
Board and executive conversations about AI start from evidence instead of vendor demos.
How this engagement runs
Size the organization
Week 1AIR is priced to the organization band. We confirm headcount, portfolios, and the systems that matter, and lock the assessment scope before profiling begins.
A scoped engagement sized honestly to your organization — not a one-size survey.
Profile readiness
Weeks 1–3Teams, data, systems, and workloads are profiled against the AIR readiness ontology through structured interviews and evidence — not a subjective maturity score.
A quantified readiness picture across every dimension that determines whether AI lands.
Map the gaps
Weeks 3–4We identify the dependencies and bottlenecks that will block production AI before budget is locked, and quantify each gap.
The blockers are named, quantified, and sequenced — before capital is committed.
Sequence the roadmap
Weeks 4–5The readiness picture becomes a prioritized roadmap, closed with an executive briefing. Natural handoff into AI Strategy Development or an organizational twin if the org needs one.
Leadership leaves with a readiness picture it can act on and fund against.
How the fee is built
The engagement fee moves on three multipliers — sensitivity, involvement, and organization type — and the platform units the work consumes are their own lines. Nothing is hidden inside a flat number.
Sensitivity
×0.90 – ×1.30 on the engagement feeSensitivity sets the handling envelope around the whole engagement: how data moves, where evidence lives, who can touch it, and what containment we must maintain. Higher sensitivity means cleared handling, segregated evidence, and slower, more deliberate operations — real cost that a flat fee would hide.
Open information. Standard handling, no containment overhead.
Proprietary business information. NDA-grade handling and controlled evidence storage.
Compliance-bound data. Framework controls and audit-ready evidence handling shape the work.
Defense-grade pathways. Cleared handling, boundary containment, and evidence segregation inside your perimeter.
Involvement
×0.85 – ×1.35 on the engagement feeInvolvement is how much Multipolar operator time is on the hook. Counsel at checkpoints is a different commitment than embedded delivery inside your team, your systems, and your cadence. The multiplier tracks senior hours actually committed — not a markup.
We advise and interpret; your team executes. Senior counsel at defined checkpoints.
We run the engagement end to end, with your stakeholders at the decision points.
Embedded delivery. Our operators work inside your team until the outcome is actually in place.
Organization type
×0.85 – ×1.25 on the engagement feeThe same technical work lands differently depending on who is buying it. Federal and defense engagements carry procurement, compliance, security review, and stakeholder alignment that a mid-market engagement does not. The multiplier prices the coordination and accountability surface, not the analysis.
Fewer stakeholders, faster decisions, lighter coordination overhead.
The baseline: standard commercial engagement surface.
Public-sector procurement and multi-agency stakeholder surface.
Investment-platform cadence: deal-driven timelines and IC audiences.
Joint-delivery and enablement motions with partner delivery teams.
Assurance functions: evidence standards and underwriting audiences.
Federal procurement, compliance crosswalks, and multi-office alignment.
Mission-critical review, security handling, and acquisition-process alignment.
Scope & scale of platform units
The largest component of most totalsEvery engagement consumes platform units — CYBAIR workloads, AIR organization bands, GENOMIA twins, WINS scenarios, SiliconAIR systems. Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing: an 8-workload assessment and a 50-workload assessment are different engagements and are priced as such. You set the scope in the configurator; the total moves with it, and nothing is quietly under-scoped to fit a number.
Simulation compute
Estimated until configured · billed on actualsWINS simulations carry real compute costs that scale with scenario count, branching depth, and campaign length. A focused single-scenario game and a sustained multi-agent campaign are orders of magnitude apart. Facilitation and after-action are in the fee; compute is estimated once the game is configured, then billed on actuals — you pay for what actually runs, never a padded average.
Platform units in this engagement
Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing. You set the scope; the total moves with it. Each unit below is consumed by this engagement and billed as its own line.
The organization or portfolio profiled against the AIR readiness ontology, sized by headcount and portfolio breadth.
The size of the organization being assessed: people, portfolios, and the systems that matter. A 200-person shop profiles at the Small band; a 10,000-person multi-portfolio enterprise profiles at Large or Extra-large.
What the engagement fee covers
- Scoping, workshops, and interpretation
- Every deliverable listed on this page
- Cross-framework mapping where the package includes compliance
- Executive translation — board, program-office, or IC language
- Handoff and a defensible next-step recommendation
What it does not cover
- Platform units consumed by the work (shown as their own lines)
- WINS simulation compute (estimated, then billed on actuals)
Frequently asked questions
It is quantified and evidence-backed, and priced to organizational scale. You get a readiness picture you can act on — not a slide with a number from 1 to 5.
Ready to brief us on the AI Readiness Assessment?
We choose who we work with and confirm scope, capacity, and final pricing in the briefing.