AI readiness assessment
Where does your organization stand with AI?
Your board and your staff each answer a short set of questions about AI tools: what’s actually in use, what feels off-limits, whether there’s anything written down, and where things should go from here. You get a plain report to read together, the same kind the board self-assessment produces, about a different subject.
It isn’t built to talk anyone into using more AI. “We should not use this” is treated as a complete, useful answer, and the report is worded the same way whether your organization decides to move ahead or hold off.
Free, forever. About seven minutes to answer, either survey. No account needed. You get a private link, and that link is what gets you back in.
Looking for the board self-assessment instead? Start there. This one is separate, not a step inside it.
What it actually asks
Five things, roughly in this order: what people understand and how they feel about it, what’s written down (a policy, who’s responsible for it, whether the board has even discussed it), what skills and time actually exist, where AI should and should not be used across eight specific tasks (writing grant drafts, screening job applicants, deciding who gets services), and what people are already doing. That last part is concrete: which kinds of tool someone has used in the past three months, and which kinds they’ve been explicitly told not to use, both from the same list.
Board members and staff answer identical wording, which is what makes the report’s lead finding possible: not a score, but the places their answers part company. A board that believes a policy exists while half its staff say there isn’t one is a finding no amount of guessing gets you to on your own.
How it works
Set it up, and it asks your board, your staff, or both. Each group gets one link that you share yourself. Nobody logs in. Nobody’s individual answers are traceable back to them, the same guarantee the board self-assessment makes: no name, no email, no login tied to a response.
The report leads with where the board and staff diverge, then the plain findings for each side on their own. It ends with a short, separate section of what to do next, kept apart from the findings. That section is just as likely to suggest writing down “we’re holding off for now” as it is to suggest something more active.
Comparison against similar organizations works the same way it does for the board assessment: it appears once enough of them have run this assessment, and until then the report says so plainly and shows the raw numbers instead.
What a report looks like
A shortened example, invented numbers, shown exactly the way a real report shows them.
Illustrative example, not a real organization
Riverbend Youth Services: AI readiness
Where the board and staff see it differently
“This organization has a written policy on the use of AI tools.” Asked of both, in the same words.
Board: 6 of 7 board members said yes, 1 did not know
Staff: 1 of 4 staff members said yes, 8 did not know
Where it should and should not be used
“Screening job applicants.” One row of eight; board and staff answer the same list.
Board
- 2Should not be used here
- 4Only with a person checking the result
- 2Fine to use
Staff
- 7Should not be used here
- 4Only with a person checking the result
- 1Fine to use
Comfort
Rating, low to highDon’t knowLeft blankAverage
Board
3.9 of 5
Staff
2.6 of 5
Where to start
Guidance, kept separate from the findings above. It is as likely to suggest holding off as moving ahead. This example happens to be the “write something down” case.
Write down what is and is not allowed.
Staff are already using these tools weekly, and most of the people you asked say there is nothing written down about it. A written position does not have to permit anything it does not want to permit.
The real questions
Nothing here is hidden behind a signup. These are the actual questions, word for word, grouped by topic. Tap one to read it. Board and staff share most of their wording on purpose, so switch the tab to see what’s different on each side.
39 questions, about 7 minutes.
39 questions on the board side, 39 on staff’s, about seven minutes either way.
Free, same as everything else here. Setup takes a few minutes; answering it takes about seven.
Set up an AI readiness assessment