How ready is your business for AI, and how exposed is your data?

What is the AI readiness check?

The AI readiness check is a free twelve-question self-assessment published by Simplepage AI that scores how ready your business is to use AI and how exposed your confidential data already is. It takes about two minutes. As of 2026, the questions cover four areas: AI governance - whether a policy exists and who owns it; confidential data exposure - whether staff can paste client information into public AI tools; access control and knowledge - whether your business knowledge is organised and properly restricted; and adoption and capability - whether your team has used AI and whether a plan exists. Answers are scored in your browser, and nothing you enter is stored until you choose to send it. The check is aimed at confidentiality-bound firms - fiduciary, legal, finance, eGaming and professional services - where the risk of unmanaged AI use matters as much as the opportunity.

Why does the check focus on confidentiality?

Confidentiality is the reason the check exists at all. For the firms Simplepage AI serves - fiduciary, legal, finance and eGaming businesses - an AI mistake is a confidentiality mistake, so several of the twelve questions ask about exposure rather than ambition: whether staff can paste confidential client information into public AI tools, whether the AI accounts in use are personal ones or a managed business tier, whether access to business knowledge is restricted by role, and whether anyone actually owns AI in the business. According to Isle of Man data-protection legislation, which is GDPR-aligned, a firm remains responsible for personal data its staff feed into external tools, whether or not anyone in charge knew it was happening. The check will not fix that in two minutes, but it will show you honestly where you stand and which gap deserves attention first.

What happens after I complete it?

The result is a scored readiness profile and a plain recommendation, tailored to your answers. The twelve questions sit in four short steps - governance, data exposure, access control and adoption - and you can step back and change any answer before you finish. At the end you are asked where to send your profile - name, work email, company and role - and filling those in generates your score and the recommendation. Nothing you answer is stored until you choose to send it; until that point it stays in your browser. If you would rather talk to a person than read a score, the next step is a discovery call: thirty minutes, and it costs nothing.

Who is behind the readiness check?

Simplepage AI is the AI consultancy arm of Simplepage Limited, a three-person Isle of Man software company - Simon, William and Sharon Steed - based at Gordon House, Prospect Hill, in Douglas. The consultancy serves confidentiality-bound firms with a fixed-scope AI readiness audit from £1,450, ongoing AI help as your outsourced in-house AI team, and the Simple AI vault: confidential AI running on your own premises so client data never leaves your control. The parent company ships production AI rather than advice alone. Data from our project history: Eddi, an AI content-management product for Umbraco, runs in production; Sumlo was built in three days and Patch in three weeks. The readiness check is the lightest way to start with that team, and the audit is the formal next step when the score suggests it is worth it.

How is the check different from the AI cost calculator?

The calculator asks five commercial questions and shows what AI could be worth in hours and pounds; the readiness check asks twelve organisational questions and shows whether you could adopt AI safely. Use the calculator when you want the business case, and the check when you want to know how exposed you are. Both tools are free in 2026 and both run in your browser, collecting nothing until you choose to send.