AI Opportunity Readiness Free Worksheet

Not every AI idea is ready to pursue.

The AI Opportunity Readiness Worksheet is a free practical PDF designed to help you assess whether one AI opportunity is valuable, feasible, governable, and ready enough to move forward.

Use it before investing time, budget, or credibility into an AI idea that may still need more clarity.

This worksheet helps you:

1. Define the AI opportunity in practical business terms
2. Clarify the business problem or workflow need
3. Score the opportunity across key readiness factors
4. Identify gaps around data, workflow, governance, and adoption
5. Apply simple readiness gates before moving forward
6. Decide whether to pursue, prepare, redesign, defer, or stop
7. Capture a concise recommendation for the next conversation

This is not a full business case, privacy review, security assessment, architecture review, or implementation plan. It is a practical first screen to help leaders and teams make a clearer early decision.

Best for

Leaders, consultants, project managers, transformation teams, operations leaders, business owners, and teams exploring AI opportunities before launching a pilot.

Included

You will receive a fillable PDF worksheet that guides you through:

1. AI opportunity definition
2. Readiness scoring
3. Score rationale
4. Readiness gates
5. Result interpretation
6. Next step planning
7. One sentence recommendation
8. Summary page

When to use it

Use this worksheet when you have an AI idea and need to answer:

Is this worth exploring further?

Is it clear enough to discuss with leadership?

Are there obvious gaps before moving forward?

Does this need more preparation before a pilot?

Next step

This free worksheet is designed for assessing one AI opportunity.

For comparing multiple AI opportunities, ranking them, and preparing a stronger pilot recommendation, use the full AI Opportunity Readiness Kit, which includes the workbook, scoring matrix, prompt companion, sample completed use case, and one page brief template.

Using this for a live AI opportunity? If you want help interpreting your results, you can request an AI Opportunity Readiness Review. Request a review: https://vanynh.com/contact/