What You Receive
Five-Dimension Score
Scored across Adoption Behavior, Authority Structure, Workflow Integration, Decision Velocity, and Economic Translation. Each dimension scored independently so you know where you're strong, where the gaps are, and which gaps to close first.
Specific Findings Per Dimension
Each dimension delivers specific findings calibrated to your answers and your industry context: what's working, where the gaps are, and what peers at a similar maturity stage are doing differently.
The Economic Case + A 90-Day Plan
Ranked, concrete actions your leadership team can bring into the next planning cycle. Plus the economic case in dollars, security and governance risk by category, structural constraints, competitive positioning, and vendor market guidance.
Inside the Report
Nine sections. Each one built to drive a specific decision.
Every section exists because a technology leader at some point needed that exact output and didn't have it. Nothing is padding.
Opens with a 30-second read: your score, your named pattern, the dollar range, and the single highest-leverage fix priced per year. The rest is the argument behind it, grounded in your own answers.
Your five-dimension profile with a written diagnosis of each score. The shape matters more than the level: two companies with the same overall score can have opposite problems.
The internal blockers that will kill execution if you don't address them. Most organizations know something is slow. This names the specific mechanism.
Where you sit against anonymized competitor positions in your sector, and how fast the window is moving. The verdict is explicit: ahead, at pace, or behind.
The annual value you are leaving unrealized, in dollars and as a share of revenue, then translated into P&L terms: revenue, margins, and cost structure. Every assumption stated so your CFO can argue with it.
Governance gaps by category, mapped to your actual answers and your regulatory intensity. Flags exposure before it becomes an audit finding or a headline.
Buy, build, or partner recommendations for your highest-priority use cases, with named vendors and negotiation intelligence for each key relationship.
Findings restructured as decision items with specific asks, so the next board conversation ends in a decision instead of a status update.
Every score, weight, capture-rate input, and citation, stated in full. The report holds up because you can check its math.
How Executives Use It
Not a checkbox. A decision-making tool.
- Get an objective read on where your team stands before a board conversation on AI investment.
- Identify the specific dimensions suppressing performance, not just a vague sense that things are slow.
- Build the financial case for AI investment using the P&L section. The business case section is ready to drop into a board deck.
- Use the structural constraint analysis to understand what's blocking execution before a transformation program starts.
- Assess whether your technology organization's AI posture matches the strategic commitments you've made to the board or investors.
- Get a financial translation of AI readiness in business terms, and understand the cost of inaction in dollar terms.
- Use the competitive positioning section to understand where AI is a genuine differentiator vs. where competitors are ahead.
- Validate or challenge the technology team's AI investment case using an independent, structured financial framework.
- Understand the governance and compliance risk exposure before it shows up in audit findings.
- Quantify the annual value gap from AI underperformance and use it to set a return threshold for any proposed investment.
- Run the diagnostic on a portfolio company to baseline AI maturity ahead of a value creation plan.
- Identify the specific gaps most likely to affect EBITDA over a 24-to-36-month hold period.
- Use the vendor market section to surface vendor consolidation and renegotiation opportunities.
Why This Is Different
There are other assessments. Here's what makes this one useful.
Most AI maturity tools tell you what stage you're in and leave you to figure out the rest. This one goes further on every dimension that matters.
Tell you what stage you're in. No financial translation, no priority actions, no competitive context. You still have to build the business case yourself.
Includes a financial impact estimate, P&L business case, and ranked priority actions. The business case is part of the output, not a follow-on project.
Unscored, unweighted surveys that produce a qualitative stage label. No calibration by industry, no specificity on where to act first.
22 adaptive questions scored across five independently weighted dimensions. Industry-calibrated benchmarks. Answering I don't know is scored as a visibility finding in its own right.
$50,000-$150,000. Eight to twelve weeks. Junior team doing the analysis. Output optimized for the follow-on engagement, not your decision.
Free. Completed in about 8 minutes. Instant output. No NDA negotiation, no kickoff meeting, no deck review cycle. You own the output.
The team assessing itself has every incentive to score generously. The result is not credible to a board, CFO, or outside investor.
A structured, third-party framework that produces a score the organization didn't author. Credible to stakeholders who weren't in the room.
Sample Output
See exactly what your organization would receive.
Generated using publicly traded companies as hypothetical subjects. All scores, findings, and recommendations are based on publicly available information and RLK's analytical framework. Neither company is a client.
Read either full nine-section report to see exactly what your organization would receive, including the economic case in dollars, vendor recommendations, and the competitive positioning verdict.
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