Include three perspectives in your AI readiness assessment: a technology leader, a business owner for the AI use cases, and someone from security or compliance. Together, they can explain the current systems, intended business outcome and review requirements.

Prepare the right people

  1. Technology leader: describe your data, systems, cloud environment and how software is built and released.
  2. Business owner: explain the AI use cases you want to deliver and what outcome they should support.
  3. Security or compliance representative: identify concerns about data flows, access, permitted AI actions, risk and accountability.

Why these roles matter

AI projects can stall when a pilot uses clean sample data but production must work with real data, real systems and real security rules. Bringing these roles together helps make blockers and sign-off needs visible during the review.

Common blocker

If security, legal or compliance cannot see where data goes, what the AI can change, or who is accountable, approval may be difficult. Include the people who need to review those questions so the assessment can consider them.