AI Adoption Readiness Guide
A working readiness worksheet for teams choosing an AI task, preparing a pilot and documenting what still needs attention.
Use this before choosing a tool
Complete the worksheet with the people who perform the work and those responsible for information, risk and delivery. Record evidence and unknowns. This is an educational planning aid, not a validated readiness score or a compliance assessment.
Readiness worksheet
- Task and outcome
- Describe the task, affected people and current difficulty. What observable change would make the pilot useful? Attach examples of the work.
- Baseline
- Record task volume, effort, quality and exceptions. Use comparable cases and define an acceptable completion.
- Information
- List the inputs, their sensitivity, who controls them and permission to process them. Check the actual tool plan’s data-handling terms before use.
- People and oversight
- Name the operator, qualified reviewer, accountable owner and person authorised to stop the pilot. State what the reviewer must check.
- Technology and workflow
- Document dependencies, integrations, permissions and a manual fallback. Ask whether a simpler process change would solve the problem.
- Evaluation
- Define normal, ambiguous and failure cases. Write quality criteria and stop conditions before testing.
- Cost and capacity
- Include preparation, review, correction and maintenance. Explain how released capacity would create realised value.
Use evidence gates, not an average score
Mark each area supported, unresolved or blocking, and record why. Do not average away an inability to protect information or detect a serious error. The relevant owner should decide whether to proceed, redesign the task or defer it.
The NIST AI RMF 1.0 Core provides a broader risk-management context. This worksheet does not reproduce or certify the full framework.
Turn the review into an action list
For every gap, write the next action, owner, evidence required and review date. An unknown is useful when it leads to a specific investigation.
Continue with the small-business adoption roadmap and responsible AI pilot checklist. To discuss readiness in your context, talk to Kryllon.
By Kryllon Intelligence Group | Educational resource | Reviewed 15 October 2026. Prepared with AI assistance; examples are illustrative.