The readiness check

Five questions.Forty-five seconds.An honest read.

Answer for how things really run today, not how the process document says they do. At the end you get a plain read on where AI fits in your business — including the answer “not yet”, if that is the true one.

  • 45 seconds
  • five questions
  • no obligation
  • no email to see it
  • nothing sent unless you ask
AI readiness check runs in your browser

Nothing here is stored or scored against anyone else, and nothing reaches us unless you ask it to. Answer, read your result, close the tab and it is gone. If you would rather keep it, the result page can email it to you — and that is the only way any of it reaches us.

What it asks

The five questions, printed in full.

No trick questions and no trap answers. Every one of them is about how your work runs today, and none of them asks anything about you — not your name, not your company, not your numbers.

  1. Where does your most important workflow live today?From paper and signatures, through spreadsheets and chat threads, to connected systems end to end. This is the question that decides whether AI is even the right next move.
  2. When you need a number, what happens?Sales this week, stock, workload. Whether someone is asked and you wait, whether a spreadsheet gets assembled, or whether you open something live. It tells us what your data is actually like.
  3. How much of the day goes to repetitive work?Sorting, copying, chasing, re-typing. This is the one that decides whether an agent has anything worth taking off your team's hands yet.
  4. Has your team used AI tools in their work?From not yet, through one or two people experimenting quietly, to everyone using them under written rules. There is no wrong answer here, but there is a revealing one.
  5. How clear is your starting point?No idea where to begin, too many ideas and no way to choose, or a plan already in motion. Too many ideas and too few are different problems, and they need different first steps.
What you get at the end

A read, a first step, and permission to stop there.

The result appears on screen the moment you answer the last question. There is no gate, no “enter your email to see your score”, and no report that arrives later.

One

Where you stand

Your answers place you in one of three honest bands, named plainly rather than scored out of a hundred. A low band is not a failure — it is a shorter, smaller first project than a high one.

foundations first ready for a first win ready to scale
Two

The sensible first step

A short written recommendation in the same plain language as the rest of this site: what to do first, and why that rather than the thing you were probably about to take on. It can say the first step is not AI at all — that it is getting one workflow or one number into shape, and that the rest can wait.

Three

Where to read more

Links to the services that match your answers — and, deliberately, not to the other ones. Then the check ends. A callback request is offered once, on the same screen, and ignoring it commits you to nothing.

What happens to your answers

Nothing leaves the page — unless you ask it to.

It is easy to build one of these as a form wearing a quiz costume: five easy questions, then your email address before the result. This one asks for nothing before the result, because the check is a small piece of code running inside your own browser. The only thing it ever sends is the copy you can ask for at the end.

The check, as it actually behaves verifiable in your browser
  • no sendYour answers are held in the page's memory while you answer, and used once to pick the band. Nothing is transmitted while you take the check. The one exception is the offer on the result screen to email you a copy, which sends them to us as well.
  • no storeNothing is written to your device and nothing is kept after you close the tab. Reload the page and the check starts from the first question again.
  • no askNo email, no name, no company. Nothing has to be filled in to see your result. Once it is on screen the page offers to email you a copy — that is the only field anywhere in the check, it appears after the answer rather than before it, and ignoring it costs you nothing.
  • no trailNothing about your answers reaches us unless you ask for the emailed copy — and if you do not ask, we never learn what you picked, which band you landed in, or that you took it at all. The page request itself appears in the host's standard logs, exactly like every other page on the internet, and that is the whole of what we could ever see.
  • check itYou do not have to take our word for any of that. Open your browser's network tab and run the check — you will watch it send nothing. Or switch your connection off entirely and take it offline.

The chat assistant in the corner is a different thing entirely: that one does send what you type to a model, which is why it has its own section on the privacy page. The rest of what this site does with data is written down the same way on the trust page — including the parts we have to name rather than promise.

What it is not

Four honest limits on a 45-second check.

Forty-five seconds gives a direction, not a diagnosis. Here is what this thing cannot do, so the result gets weighed correctly when you show it to someone.

  • Not a lead form

    There is nothing to submit, and nobody is notified that you took it unless you ask for the emailed copy. Seeing your answers is something you choose after the result, not a condition of getting one.

  • Not a benchmark

    The band does not compare you to an industry average, because we do not have one and we are not going to invent one. It reads your five answers and nothing else.

  • Not a scope

    Five questions cannot size work. What it involves depends on your data, your systems, your people and your exposure — none of which fit in a multiple choice answer.

  • Not the map

    The map is the first stage of work, where the real process is watched and drawn as it actually runs. This is the quick check that tells you whether it is time for that yet.

Thirty minutes · after the check

Disagree with your result? Come and argue it.

Bring the band the check gave you and the one workflow sitting behind it. Thirty minutes, and you leave with the first step named — or with the same “not yet”, and the reason it applies to your business rather than to a set of five answers.

Ask us to call you back

with FuseLoom · hello@fuseloom.com · or send the result by email and get the read back in writing instead