AI readiness for a data centre operator
A Copilot readiness assessment, Copilot and data governance policies and an eight week remediation plan for a UK data centre operator, plus the first business process to hand to an AI agent.
AI readiness
Know where AI will pay back, and what needs to be in place first.
We run a workshop with your senior team, follow up with each department, and come back with a readiness score, a ranked list of use cases, a twelve-month roadmap, a costed business case for the first phase and the governance to go with it. Platform agnostic, from £4,995 plus VAT for organisations of up to 50 users.
Six deliverables you can act on.
Your teams usually know exactly where their time goes. The assessment turns what they tell us into a plan the leadership team can approve, with the rules and checks in place before anything goes live.
Workshop write-up
Every idea from the workshop and what each department told us in the follow-up conversations, recorded in full.
AI readiness scorecard
Where you sit today on five pillars: AI strategy, business processes, governance and security, technology and data, and people and culture. Scored against Microsoft's AI adoption maturity model, with a twelve-month target for each and what moves it up a level.
Prioritised use-case backlog
Every idea scored for value and effort and ranked, with a confidence rating on each so the department lead can check it before anything is built.
Twelve-month roadmap
Foundations and quick wins first, then connecting your systems, then the bigger changes. Each phase has a gate to pass before the next one opens, and the roadmap includes a review of which AI platform and licences suit you.
Phase one business case
The effort, licence costs, hours saved and payback for the first phase, so the leadership team has the figures to approve it.
AI governance guardrails
An acceptable use policy, an approved tools list, rules on what data can go where, named owners and the checks to run before a use case goes live.
3 to 4 weeks
from the kick-off workshop to the executive playback
5 pillars
scored against Microsoft's AI adoption maturity model
From £4,995
plus VAT, for organisations of up to 50 users
How the assessment works.
01
Kick-off workshop
A two-hour session with your senior team. Everyone puts their ideas on the wall, and the team scores where the organisation sits today on each of the five pillars.
02
Department follow-ups
Conversations with each department lead to understand how the work is done today, which systems hold the information and where the time goes.
03
Systems and data review
We look at the systems each use case depends on, whether they can be connected, and the state of your documents, permissions and sharing. Where you are on Microsoft 365 we run Orchestry across the whole tenant.
04
Scoring and roadmap
Each use case is scored and ranked, then phased into a twelve-month roadmap with a costed business case for phase one and the governance to support it.
05
Executive playback
We take the leadership team through the findings and agree the twelve-month targets and the decision on phase one.
What usually comes next.
An assessment usually ends with a set of foundations to put in place and a shortlist of processes where an agent would save time. These are the services that pick them up.
SharePoint governance
Ownership, permissions and lifecycle rules so the tenant stays in order after the fixes.
Data security
Oversharing and broken permission inheritance closed off across the tenant.
AI governance
Acceptable use policies and controls for Copilot and other AI tools.
Microsoft Copilot
Deployment, training and adoption once the foundations are in place.
Custom agents
A working agent in production for one of the processes on your shortlist, built against your own content.
Copilot Studio
Agents built and governed in Copilot Studio, for the processes that suit a low code build.
Case studies we have delivered.
Read the data centre case study
AI document redaction
An AI redaction app on Azure and the Power Platform for a professional membership body. It finds personal information in documents, with staff approving every redaction.
Frequently asked questions.
What is an AI readiness assessment?
A structured look at where AI would save your organisation time and what needs to be in place before it does. It starts with a workshop with your senior team and ends with a readiness scorecard, a ranked list of use cases, a twelve-month roadmap, a costed business case for the first phase and a set of governance guardrails.
Why assess readiness before adopting AI?
An AI assistant answers from whatever a user can already reach, and an agent is only as good as the systems and data it is connected to. Agreeing the rules, getting documents into order and checking which systems can be connected first means the tools are useful from the start and nothing is surfaced to people it was not intended for.
What does the assessment look at?
Five pillars: AI strategy, business processes, governance and security, technology and data, and people and culture. Alongside that, the tasks in each department where AI would save time, the systems and data each one depends on, and, where you use Microsoft 365, the permissions, sharing and content across the tenant.
Is the assessment tied to a particular AI platform?
No. The roadmap includes a platform and licence review that compares Microsoft Copilot with other AI platforms against your systems, data and costs. Where you have already chosen a platform, we size the licensing for it instead.
How long does the assessment take?
Three to four weeks from the kick-off workshop to the executive playback for most organisations, depending on size and how quickly we can speak to each department.
What does the assessment cost?
From £4,995 plus VAT for organisations of up to 50 users. Larger organisations are quoted once we understand the number of teams and systems involved, and the fixed fee is confirmed with you before any work begins.
What do you need from our team?
Two hours with your senior team for the workshop, a follow-up conversation with each department lead, and details of the systems you use. We fit the sessions around people's diaries.
What happens after the assessment?
You can run the roadmap yourselves, or we deliver phase one with you, starting with the policy, the platform review and the first quick wins. Where the assessment has found a process worth building an agent for, we can take it into production as a fixed scope piece of work.
Find out where AI pays back.
We will run the workshop with your senior team, speak to each department and come back with a roadmap and a costed first phase. Assessments start at £4,995 plus VAT for organisations of up to 50 users.