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AI Readiness Index
The AI Readiness Index is a 10-minute self-assessment that scores your company against the five pillars of the Enterprise AI Control Plane: Data Trust, Model Governance, AI Agent Autonomy, Enterprise Operations, and Responsible AI. It shows where AI is an operating advantage or a deal risk, before a buyer's diligence room asks the same questions.
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Where does AI sit in the business today?
This doesn't change your score - it changes what your score means.
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- What is the AI Readiness Index?
- A 10-minute self-assessment that scores your company against the five pillars of the Enterprise AI Control Plane (Data Trust, Model Governance, AI Agent Autonomy, Enterprise Operations, and Responsible AI) and returns a composite readiness band from AI Advantage to AI Deal Risk.
- What is the Enterprise AI Control Plane?
- CCA's governance architecture that treats AI as enterprise operational infrastructure. It holds that the real attack surface is no longer the model: agents, API integrations, data provenance, machine identities, and AI-generated code. The five pillars are the operational layers where those controls live, with Responsible AI covering the fairness and explainability obligations the technical pillars don't reach.
- How long does it take?
- About 10 minutes. Fifteen questions, three per pillar, plus two quick context questions about where AI sits today and how much hold period remains that reframe what your score means.
- Who is it for?
- Private equity deal and operating teams, and the CEOs, CTOs, and CISOs of PE-backed and founder-led software companies who want a fast read on whether AI is an operating advantage or a deal risk.
- Is it accurate enough to act on?
- The index is a directional read, not an audit. It shows where the governance risk likely sits and which control to build first. A full Control Plane assessment (mapping your AI systems against all twenty control domains) is how those findings get priced.
- What do I get at the end?
- A composite readiness band, a pillar-by-pillar read with a plain-English line for each, a context-adjusted interpretation, and the option of a human-written read from Sujit within 48 hours.