Get your free AI Opportunity Score
Find out where AI could be most transformative in your business over the next 12–18 months: the quick wins, the bigger builds, and where to start. Built for established UK businesses, not startups.
Example report
See where your biggest AI opportunities are hiding
Your report scores five pillars, ranks the areas with the most upside, and tells you whether each is an off-the-shelf quick win or worth a custom build. The values below are illustrative.
Example score
- Opportunity Hotspots85/100 · High Opportunity
- Growth Upside80/100 · High Opportunity
- Data & Knowledge Fuel70/100 · High Opportunity
- Build-vs-Buy Fit75/100 · High Opportunity
- Readiness to Act80/100 · High Opportunity
“Your strongest upside is in customer-facing growth: a large share of enquiries and quotes are still handled manually, and the data to automate them already exists in your systems.”
Takes about 4–6 minutes · Free · No account needed
What you'll discover
A personalised report, not a generic checklist.
Your AI Opportunity Score
A score out of 100 with a radar chart of all five pillars, so you can see where the upside is concentrated.
Your top opportunities
The two or three areas of your business where AI is most likely to move the needle in the next 12–18 months.
Quick win or custom build?
For each opportunity, whether an off-the-shelf tool will do the job or whether it justifies a bespoke build.
A practical next step
Tailored recommendations for your weakest pillar and a shareable results link you can send to your team.
The five pillars we score
Sixteen questions across five pillars, drawn from real AI automation and AI agent projects for UK SMEs.
Quick wins, bigger builds, and knowing the difference
The most useful thing the report tells you is which kind of opportunity you are looking at, because the two need very different plans.
Off-the-shelf quick wins
Drafting, summarising, transcription, first-line enquiry handling. Tools already exist, the risk is low, and you can be live in weeks.
Custom builds worth the investment
Workflows that run on your own data, connect several systems, or sit in front of customers. These need integration, governance and a proper plan, and pay back for years.
Learn moreBuilding for teams across healthcare, logistics, motorsport and manufacturing
Frequently asked questions
About 4 to 6 minutes. There are 16 multiple-choice questions across five pillars, plus a few optional questions about your business so we can personalise the report. Your answers save in your browser as you go.
Yes. No charge, no trial, no account. Enter your email at the end so we can send you a copy of the report and you get your results immediately.
Owners and leaders of established UK businesses, typically 10 to 250 staff, who want to know where AI could help before spending money on it. If you are a founder with a pre-launch idea, the Startup Readiness Score is a better fit.
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A score out of 100, a radar chart of your five pillars, your top opportunities ranked, a quick-win or custom-build verdict for each, tailored recommendations for your weakest area, and a private link to share the report.
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