Best Entrust, LLC · Practitioner Engagement

The AI Readiness Deep Assessment

Two weeks. Evidence, not opinions. A scored, defensible answer to the question your board is already asking.

2Weeks
7Dimensions
6–10Interviews
12-moRoadmap
The problem this solves

Self-assessments rate intentions. Risk accumulates in operations.

Your organization has an AI Readiness Index score — a self-reported snapshot. Useful, but self-assessments have a known failure mode: organizations rate themselves on intentions, while risk accumulates in operations. The Deep Assessment replaces self-report with evidence: interviews, document review, and observation across all seven dimensions — producing a score your leadership can defend to a board, a regulator, or themselves.

What happens over the two weeks
WK 1Evidence

Activity

Structured interviews with 6–10 stakeholders across leadership, IT/security, operations, and frontline teams. Review of policies, data architecture documentation, vendor contracts, and current AI tool usage.

You receive

Interim findings memo — including anything urgent enough that it shouldn't wait for the final report.

WK 2Analysis & Roadmap

Activity

Evidence-based rescore across all seven dimensions. Gap analysis against sector expectations. Prioritized 12-month roadmap with owners, sequence, and budget logic.

You receive

Written report (15–25 pages), evidence-based Readiness Index score, and a 90-minute executive briefing session.

The seven dimensions assessed
Data Readiness
Whether your data can actually support what you intend to build
Use-Case Clarity
Named processes with baselines, or ambition without targets
Workforce Exposure & Capability
Which roles change, and whether anyone is preparing them
Security & Risk Posture
What's leaving your building through public AI tools right now
Governance & Compliance
What you could show a regulator tomorrow
Leadership Alignment
Whether your executives are funding one strategy or three
Financial Discipline
Investment logic versus FOMO spending
Transparent pricing

Fixed fees. No discovery-call pricing games.

You should know what an engagement costs before the first conversation. Both fees are fixed — no hourly overruns, no scope surprises.

Organizations under 1,000 employees
$9,500
Fixed fee · full two-week engagement, all deliverables included
Larger or multi-entity organizations
$20,000
Fixed fee · same engagement, scoped for additional entities and stakeholders
Fee credited in full against any subsequent advisory retainer within 90 days.

The honest-finding commitment

If the evidence shows your organization does not need outside help — that your gaps are closable internally with the roadmap provided — the report says exactly that. This engagement is not a sales funnel for a longer engagement. It is the diagnostic. What you do with it is your decision.

Who conducts it
AM

Dr. Andrew Mangle — CISSP, CISA, PMP, CSSLP. Eighteen years at the intersection of enterprise technology and workforce development: application development and supervision in the public sector, security and blockchain consulting across public and private entities, and faculty in Management Information Systems. Creator of the AI Readiness Index and the Mangle Metric readiness instruments. The rare assessor equally fluent in what the technology does and what it does to your people.

Start the conversation

Request a Deep Assessment

Tell us about your organization and we'll be in contact within one business day. Prefer to test the water first? Take the free AI Readiness Index — it takes 15 minutes.

Thank you — we're on it.

Your request has been received. Someone from Best Entrust will be in contact within one business day to schedule an initial conversation and confirm scope.

In the meantime, if you haven't already scored your organization, the free instrument gives us both a head start.

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