FREE 5-MINUTE ASSESSMENT

AI Governance Readiness Assessment

Is your organisation ready for AI? Complete our free five-minute AI Governance Readiness Assessment for an instant score and practical next steps.

✓ Free, five minutes ✓ Six governance domains ✓ Instant maturity score

Why Governance Readiness Matters Right Now.

Most organisations no longer have a single moment where they "adopt AI". Copilots are embedded in everyday software, individual teams are experimenting with tools nobody formally approved, and a growing number of systems are moving from answering questions to taking actions on someone's behalf. Governance readiness is no longer a project milestone. It is a running measure of whether oversight is keeping pace with what is actually happening across the organisation.

The AI Governance Readiness Assessment gives you an honest, evidence-based starting point in five minutes. Rather than asking whether you have an AI policy, it asks the harder questions: whether ownership is clear for every significant AI system, whether risk is actually assessed before something goes live, whether monitoring exists after deployment, and whether your evidence would satisfy a board, a regulator or an insurer if asked today.

You get an instant score, a maturity level, and a breakdown by domain so you know exactly where to focus first, whether that is tightening ownership, building a risk process, or closing a specific compliance gap.

What the Assessment Measures.

Governance Strategy: leadership, ownership, decision rights and an agreed operating model for AI.
Risk Management: how AI risk is identified, classified, controlled and escalated before and after launch.
Compliance: awareness of applicable regulation and standards, and the evidence to demonstrate it.
Responsible AI: fairness, transparency, explainability and human oversight in practice, not just policy.
Lifecycle Governance: intake, deployment, monitoring and change control for every AI system.
Assurance: independent review, reporting and continuous improvement of governance itself.
How the AI Governance Readiness Assessment scores your organisation and produces a maturity level

How the Assessment Works.

01 Answer Straightforward Statements

Work through statements across the six domains, selecting the ones that genuinely apply to your organisation today rather than your intentions for next year.

02 Get an Instant Score

Your responses are scored immediately, with equal weight given to each domain so no single area can flatter or distort the overall result.

03 See Your Maturity Level

Your overall score maps onto a seven-level maturity scale, from an early, largely unstructured stage through to an assured, enterprise-grade level of governance.

04 Review Practical Next Steps

Your result highlights your strongest domains and your priority gaps, with proportionate recommendations for what genuinely needs attention first.

05 Talk It Through, If Useful

Book a short consultation to discuss your result and what a proportionate next step looks like for your organisation, with no obligation to proceed further.

What You Get From the Assessment.

A clear, evidence-based picture of your current AI governance position, generated the moment you finish.

01

Instant Overall Score

A single index score generated the moment you complete the assessment, giving you an immediate benchmark to work from.

02

Seven-Level Maturity Profile

Your score is mapped onto the same seven-level maturity scale used across every assessment in the INTAI Assessment Suite.

03

Domain-by-Domain Breakdown

See exactly how you score across governance strategy, risk, compliance, responsible AI, lifecycle governance and assurance.

04

Plain-Language Executive Summary

A short block of commentary calibrated to your specific score and domain pattern, written for sharing with senior leadership.

05

Priority Gaps and Recommendations

Your strongest foundations and your priority gaps, each with a proportionate recommendation for what to focus on next.

06

A Basis for the Next Conversation

A result you can bring into a governance committee, a board paper or a consultation with INTAI to agree what happens next.

FOR BOARDS & NON-EXECUTIVES

Assessing Governance From the Boardroom?

This version focuses on operational and lifecycle governance across the organisation. If you are a board member or non-executive assessing oversight from a governance and challenge perspective, the Board AI Readiness Assessment is built specifically for that view.

Take Board Assessment Explore Governance Strategy

Frequently Asked Questions.

Most people complete it in around five minutes. It is a statement-based format, so you are selecting the statements that apply to your organisation rather than writing free-text answers, which keeps it fast without making it superficial.

No. Your result is indicative only. It is a self-reported benchmark based on the statements you select, not a formal audit, assurance opinion or legal review. It is designed to give you a fast, honest starting point and a sense of priority, which you can then follow up with a more detailed review where it matters.

Your overall score is compared against fixed score ranges to place you on a shared seven-level scale used across the INTAI Assessment Suite, running from an early, largely unstructured stage, through emerging, developing, controlled and governed stages, up to advanced and assured levels of maturity. Full detail on how the scale is built is available on the assessment methodology page.

Governance strategy and leadership, risk management, compliance and regulatory readiness, responsible AI, lifecycle governance, and assurance and continuous improvement. Each domain is weighted equally so no single strong area can mask genuine weaknesses elsewhere.

Yes, within lifecycle governance and risk management. Statements cover how changes to models, prompts, data, configuration and suppliers are controlled, and whether escalation thresholds exist when AI behaviour or performance changes, both of which apply directly to agentic and autonomous systems as well as more conventional AI tools.

Either works, but be aware that a single individual's view can be optimistic or narrow depending on their role. Some organisations have two or three people from different functions, such as risk, technology and a business owner, complete it separately and compare results, which often surfaces useful disagreement about where things actually stand.

Your contact details are used to send you your result and to follow up about AI governance support where relevant. Full detail on how data submitted through INTAI's assessments and forms is handled is set out in the privacy policy.

This assessment is built for the people running AI governance day to day, covering operational detail across all six domains. The Board AI Readiness Assessment is written for a governance and non-executive audience, focused more on oversight, challenge and reporting than on operational implementation detail.

Yes. Many organisations retake it every two to three months while actively improving governance, or at set review points, such as after a policy update or before a board reporting cycle, to see whether the domain scores and maturity level have genuinely moved.

Start with your lowest-scoring domain and your specific recommendations rather than trying to fix everything at once. Many organisations use the free INTAI Governance Framework download to address structural gaps, or book a consultation to talk through a proportionate plan based on their actual result.

Related Assessments & Services.

Explore the wider INTAI Assessment Suite, the methodology behind it, and the governance services this assessment leads into.

Assessments INTAI Assessment Suite

Browse every assessment available, from AI readiness and governance to board oversight and vendor risk.

Board Board AI Readiness Assessment

A version built for boards and non-executives, focused on oversight, challenge and reporting rather than operational detail.

Methodology Assessment Methodology

See exactly how statements, domains, scoring and the seven-level maturity scale are built across the assessment suite.

FAQs Assessment FAQs

Answers to common questions about scoring, data handling, retaking assessments and reading your report.

Strategy AI Governance Strategy

Turn your assessment result into a governance model, decision rights and priorities the organisation can act on.

Consultation Book a Consultation

Talk through your result with INTAI and agree a proportionate next step, with no obligation to proceed further.

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