Free tools
Self-serve tools for UK SMEs, charities and public sector organisations. No payment, no sales call, and every default disclosed. They run in the order most organisations adopt AI, and you can start at any step. Each answers one question honestly, including when the honest answer is that AI is not worth it yet.
Most organisations are not held back by AI technology. They are held back by confidence, clarity and governance. Pick the line that sounds like you.
Each tool answers one question, and each maps to a stage of the Insightful AI Adoption Roadmap. That is the same method behind our paid work. Run the steps in order, or jump to the one you need.
Step 1: Where do we stand?
Roadmap stage 1: Assess and align
Eleven plain-English questions scoring your people, process and principles. The starting point if AI is still new ground.
You leave with: A score for each of the three foundations, and one named next step.
Around ten minutes
Running a charity? This is the same check, tuned for charities. It covers the six areas trustees are asked about, and ends with a written summary for your board.
Take the free assessmentStep 2: Is the AI we already use safe?
Roadmap stage 3: Establish governance
Maps which AI tools are actually in use and scores your governance across eight dimensions. Red flags appear immediately, before anything else.
You leave with: Your gaps in priority order, and a board-ready summary.
Around ten minutes
Step 3: Which work is worth funding?
Roadmap stage 4: Pilot and prove
Baselines your three busiest workflows and applies realistic realisation factors. It recommends the lowest-complexity next step: Enable, Connect, Add or Not yet.
You leave with: A recommendation for each workflow, and a clear signal when AI is not worth it.
Around seven minutes
Step 4: Who should own this work?
Roadmap stage 5: Scale and integrate
Scores the AI capabilities your organisation needs. It weighs developing an existing employee, making a permanent hire, using fractional support, or combining them.
You leave with: A recommended operating model, and a practical role brief.
Around seven minutes
Stage 2 of the roadmap is AI fluency, and no self-serve tool replaces it. The glossary gives plain-English definitions of the terms used across this site, and in every vendor pitch you will sit through. The statistics page gathers every UK AI adoption figure we cite, with its publisher and date. No sign-up, just answers.
None of these tools guarantees an outcome, and none replaces measurement. They give you a defensible starting point, and they will tell you when the right answer is to wait.
A free 30-minute discovery call covers the same ground with a person on the other end. Bring a tool result with you and the conversation starts further along.
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