Tools
Diagnostics, not
questionnaires
Each of these takes two or three minutes and gives you a result on the spot — a tier, a level, or a number — built from the same engineering judgment the consulting runs on.
AI Workflow Audit
See where AI belongs in your team’s architecture — and where it doesn’t. Six questions map your workload against what AI handles reliably in production.
You get: Your tier, the project shapes that fit it, and what to measure before building anything.
Ch. 3 — AI in the data, code in the process
Knowledge Base Readiness Diagnostic
Most AI knowledge projects stall in week three, when the first cross-source question arrives. Six questions tell you whether your knowledge base can answer — or only retrieve.
You get: Your readiness tier, the ceiling you’ll hit next, and the structural work that moves it.
Ch. 4 — knowledge bases and information systems
AI Act Engineering-Floor Readiness Check
The AI Act doesn’t ask if your models are good. It assumes logging, oversight and traceability already exist. Nine questions check the engineering floor the regulation stands on — including the one nobody asks about agent identity.
You get: Your floor tier, the gaps an audit hits first, and how you compare to the 61%/10% benchmark.
Ch. 7 — authority, control, and compliance
AI Maturity Assessment
59% of companies say they’ve adopted AI. 9% can show a measured outcome. Eight questions locate your organization on the ladder between those two numbers.
You get: Your maturity level, which of the three implementation paths fits you, and the next constraint you’ll hit.
Ch. 1 + Ch. 6 — the 59% problem, and foundation first
True Cost Estimator
Budgets that only cover model costs run short by three to five times. Seven inputs compute what your process costs manually, what an AI system honestly costs to run against it, and the net that survives a budget meeting.
You get: Current manual cost, realistic AI running cost (inference, integration, oversight, maintenance), and the honest net — with every assumption printed.
Ch. 5 — the road from pilot to production
HOW THESE WORK
Every diagnostic scores your answers against patterns from twenty-five years of enterprise software — not against a vendor's funnel. The result is shown immediately. Estimates are directional and every assumption is printed where you can check it.