AI Readiness Assessment
Find the AI your team already uses. turn it into a measured return.
Palisade measures AI use, data exposure, and manual workload from your connected systems and from your staff. You get a scored report, a prioritized roadmap with dollars attached, and a live dashboard to track the results.
Read-only telemetry · Anonymous staff survey · About four weeks
THE PROBLEM
Most companies run on AI they can't see, and pay for manual work they never count.
Hidden Risk
Staff use AI tools on personal accounts and feed company and client data into systems nobody vetted. If leadership can’t see it, leadership can’t govern it.
Hidden Cost
Hours disappear into repetitive manual work, and paid AI licenses sit unused. It’s real money, and it doesn’t show up on any report.
We measure both, from your systems and from the people doing the work, then translate them into one number leadership can act on.
The assessment
Three views of the same seven dimensions
1 · Perception
The self-assessment: what you think is true
Answer 21 quick questions in about three minutes and see where your organization stands across seven dimensions of AI readiness. It’s free, and it becomes the baseline we compare against measured reality.
2 · Measured
AI Shield: what is actually happening
Read-only connectors pull signals from your identity, network, and endpoint systems to find the AI tools in use, who is using them, and what data they can reach. This layer is measured, not self-reported.
Connects to Microsoft 365 and Entra, Google Workspace, firewall and DNS logs, and NinjaOne, with more sources being added.
3 · People
The staff survey: where the manual work hides
A survey asks staff what slows them down: the most repetitive task in their week, how long it takes, and how often it’s the exact same steps. It captures what no system can see.
Anonymous and aggregated by design, and sponsored by leadership as a time-back initiative.
What you see
The gap between perception and reality is the story
From a sample report · demo healthcare organization, 180 employees
1.8
vs. 3.1
Real readiness vs self-reported
25
AI tools in use, only 1 sanctioned
74%
Of staff on unsanctioned AI
11
Tools ingesting sensitive data
Seven dimensions, scored on evidence
- Data readiness
- Process & workflow
- Technology integration
- Governance & responsible use
- Security & compliance
- People & adoption
- Strategy & use cases
Every dimension shows your self-reported score next to the measured one, with the evidence behind it. A risk register ranks each finding by severity and names the fix.
The blueprint
Every finding, sequenced into a plan
Ranked by impact against effort, weighted by risk severity and dollar value. Each item traces back to a finding in your report.
Now
0 – 30 days · quick wins
- Block personal ChatGPT accounts for users pasting client data
- Reclaim dormant Copilot seats
- Publish an AI acceptable-use policy
Next
30 – 90 days
- Automate document and report assembly
- Move unsanctioned note-takers onto governed accounts
- Governed AI accounts plus staff training
Later
90 – 180 days
- Data classification and DLP across Microsoft 365
- AI gateway for teams building on AI
- Quarterly re-score on AI Shield monitoring
Example roadmap based on a sample report. Your roadmap is built from your own findings.
The return
ROI built only from numbers we can measure
1,909 hrs × $40
$76k
Idle and duplicate licenses
$12k
Program cost
−$18k
Net first-year return
$70k+
Illustrative example for a 180-person organization at a $40 loaded hourly cost. Your figures come from your own measured data.
After the report
From findings to recurring value
- Automate the manual. Wire the integrations that end re-keying: email to ledger, spreadsheets to CRM, ticket triage.
- Sanction and right-size AI. Move shadow tools onto governed accounts, and reclaim idle and duplicate licenses.
- Govern it. Policy, access controls, and monitoring, so the exposure stays closed.
- Keep quality honest. Anything client-facing or money-facing keeps a human check. Error and rework rates are tracked beside the hours, and reclaimed time is validated against before-and-after cycle times.
Continuous ROI
Scored every quarter
Hours returned this quarter
480 hrs ≈ $19,200
AI spend reclaimed
$14,200
Re-scored on AI Shield every quarter, so the gains stay measured, not assumed.
Example figures: 480 hrs at a $40 loaded rate, redeployed to higher-value work rather than cut.
Why Palisade
Measured, remediated, and owned by your security partner
Measured, not guessed
Scores come from live telemetry and a whole-workforce survey, not an interview and a spreadsheet.
We fix what we find
The report names the fix for every finding, and our team can implement it. You aren’t left holding a tool and a to-do list.
Accountable for the outcome
AI readiness sits inside an ongoing security relationship, with monitoring that keeps the scoreboard running after delivery.