The Agentic Readiness Assessment

Eight questions about how your business actually runs. You get a score, a readiness profile, and the one workflow an AI agent should probably do first — on this page, instantly, no email required. (The email box at the end is optional, for the written roadmap. The score is yours either way.)

QUESTION 1 OF 8

When a new lead contacts your business after hours, what happens? Nothing until someone checks the inbox An auto-reply goes out, then it waits It lands in a CRM and someone is notified A system drafts a reply and logs it — a person approves

QUESTION 2 OF 8

How does the knowledge that makes your business good live outside your head? It doesn't — it's in my head and my best people's Scattered: old emails, quotes, a few documents Partly written down — price rules, service docs, templates Organized files or a wiki someone could actually work from

QUESTION 3 OF 8

Have you or your team used AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude for work? Not really Tried it; it didn't stick Weekly, for drafting or research — copy-paste style It's connected to real work — files, email, or data

QUESTION 4 OF 8

Pick the sentence closest to your week. Mostly doing the billable work itself Mostly firefighting — every day is different chaos A visible chunk goes to the same recurring admin every week I know exactly which recurring jobs I'd delegate tomorrow

QUESTION 5 OF 8

Where do your leads and customer records live? Memory, phone, and paper Spreadsheets, mostly up to date A CRM, used inconsistently A CRM the business actually trusts and uses

QUESTION 6 OF 8

If a new hire started Monday, how would they learn "how we do things"? Shadowing me for months A mix of shadowing and scattered notes Written checklists for the important stuff Documented processes for most recurring work

QUESTION 7 OF 8

How do you feel about approving a machine's drafts before they go to customers? Uncomfortable — customers should only hear from humans Open to it for internal things, not customers Fine, if I approve every send Already doing something like this

QUESTION 8 OF 8

What's your honest goal with AI this year? Figure out if it's real or hype for a business like mine No goal — everyone keeps telling me I should care Get real hours back from recurring work Build systems that become an asset of the business

JavaScript is off, so instant scoring isn't available — but the scoring rubric is published in full below, so you can score yourself by hand: each answer is worth the points shown by its position (top to bottom where marked). Or email your answers to hello@useai.coach and a human will reply.

How the scoring works (published, because of course it is)

Each answer scores 0–3 points across two dimensions that predict agent success: foundations (where your knowledge and records live — questions 2, 5, 6) and disposition (what you've tried and how you delegate — questions 1, 3, 4, 7, 8). Totals map to four profiles: 0–6 NOT YET, 7–12 EXPERIMENTING, 13–18 READY, 19–24 AHEAD. Answers score 0–3 points; on most questions the options run lowest to highest, and on two (questions 4 and 8) the order is shuffled so the "best" answer isn't always the last one. It's deliberately simple — a diagnostic conversation-starter, not a psychometric instrument, and it will improve as real assessment data accumulates (anonymized, per the pledge).

The Agentic Readiness Assessment

Profile: Not Yet — and that's useful to know

Profile: Experimenting — the "tried ChatGPT" plateau

Profile: Ready — your foundations are ahead of your automation

Profile: Ahead — you don't need convincing, you need a sparring partner

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How the scoring works (published, because of course it is)