How AI-ready is your enterprise?

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Step 1 of 3 — About Your Organization

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30 seconds. Helps us benchmark your results against your industry peers.

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Company size *

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Functional area *

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What best describes your AI activities right now?

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Getting started with AI strategy

Scaling pilots to production

Fixing governance / compliance gaps

Building AI agents or copilots

Upskilling our workforce for AI

Doing AI pilots or proofs of concept

You're in the right place. The assessment covers nine capability dimensions — some may not apply to your organization yet. That's completely expected. Select the first option on any layer where you haven't started. Those gaps are exactly what the results are designed to surface.

You'll answer one question per dimension — 9 questions in total. Each dimension maps to one of three zones of the SoT AI Enterprise Reference Model™: Foundation (infrastructure to data), Build (applications to tooling), and Human (governance, adoption, and strategy). Each zone contains three AI dimensions.

Foundation Zone

L1 · L2 · L3

Can your AI actually run?

Infrastructure, model management, and data governance — the technical bedrock that determines whether AI initiatives succeed or stall. Most AI programs fail here before they reach production, not from lack of ideas, but because the foundation is not ready to support them.

L1

L2

L3

Build Zone

L4 · L5 · L6

Can you build and ship AI?

Engineering practices, AI applications, and agents — the execution layer where pilots either make it to production or get stuck in an endless loop of iteration. Organizations that score well here ship AI faster and at lower cost than peers.

L4

L5

L6

Human Zone

L7 · L8 · L9

Can your organization sustain AI?

Governance, workforce adoption, and executive strategy — the leadership and culture layer that determines enterprise-wide impact. Organizations that score well here scale AI across the business. Those that do not stay stuck in isolated use cases.

L7

L8

L9

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Step 2 of 3 — A Few Quick Questions

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While we prepare your results, help us understand your context.

What are your goals for this assessment?

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Build a business case for AI investment

Identify where to focus our AI program

Prepare for a board or leadership conversation

Understand how we compare to industry peers

Identify quick wins or high-priority initiatives

Where does AI sit on your leadership agenda right now?

It is our #1 strategic priority this year

Important, but competing with other priorities

Growing in importance — still defining our approach

Not yet on the formal leadership agenda

What are your biggest AI challenges right now?

Select all that apply

We do not know where to start with AI

We struggle to identify and prioritize the right AI use cases

Our AI pilots are not making it to production

We lack governance, risk controls, or compliance confidence

We cannot demonstrate ROI or business value from AI

We do not have the right talent or skills internally

Our AI strategy is not aligned at leadership level

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SoT AI IQ-Lite™ Assessment Report

SoT AI IQ-Lite™ Score

Based on a single self-reported question per layer. For a full 90+ sub-area diagnostic, contact Strategy of Things.

Early Stage Progressing Established Leading

0–30 31–50 51–75 76–100

The SoT AI IQ-Lite™ Score is calculated across nine capability layers and rated on a 0–100 scale across four maturity bands.

How You Compare

SoT Benchmark Index (Beta)

Score distribution across assessed organizations

Industry benchmark

Indicative data based on SoT assessment methodology and published AI maturity research. Updated with live data as the benchmark dataset grows.

Layer Health Radar — SoT AI Enterprise Reference Model™

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On track

Developing

Needs attention

Layer Health Status — SoT AI Enterprise Reference Model™

● Needs attention ● Developing ● On track

AI Operating Function Health Status

The AI Operating Function is SoT’s model for how enterprises direct, govern, execute, and prioritize their AI programs. It groups the nine assessment dimensions into four pillars: Direction, Governance, Execution, and Prioritization, each reflecting a different aspect of AI leadership maturity.

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About Strategy of Things

Enterprise AI Advisory

Strategy of Things was founded on a single conviction: technology creates potential, but the right operating structure turns that potential into sustained business impact.

We have spent more than two decades working alongside organizations navigating the challenge of turning disruptive technology into real business capability. Our work has spanned enterprise strategy, infrastructure modernization, innovation labs, and emerging technology initiatives across financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, industrial operations, and the public sector.

We have worked inside and alongside firms like Gartner, Accenture, Deloitte, and Cisco. We have built and launched a municipal innovation lab serving 20 cities and 29 county agencies. We have advised federal policymakers on technology adoption as part of a collaborative award from the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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We help mid-market organizations build the AI Operating Function — the management structure that turns AI projects into organizational capability. We do this through our Fractional Chief AI Officer service, which brings enterprise-grade AI leadership, portfolio discipline, governance structure, and execution capability into organizations that need it without the cost or overhead of building a permanent executive AI function.

Our work is grounded in the SoT AI Enterprise Reference Model™, a proprietary nine-layer framework that maps the complete capability architecture required to build and sustain AI as a business capability. Every assessment we conduct, every strategy we develop, and every operating function we build is anchored in this model.

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If this assessment surfaced gaps you recognize, we would welcome a working conversation about where your organization is, what the AI Operating Function needs to look like at your specific stage of maturity, and what it would take to build it.

About this assessment

This is a directional diagnostic — one question per layer

The SoT AI IQ-Lite™ score is based on a single self-reported question across each of the nine layers. For a complete picture, Strategy of Things offers two deeper engagement tiers that cover 90+ sub-areas in full.

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SoT AI IQ-Lite™ and the SoT AI Enterprise Reference Model™ are trademarks of Strategy of Things LLC. The scoring methodology, nine-layer framework, AI Operating Function structure, and Health Status classification logic are proprietary intellectual property of Strategy of Things LLC. This report is generated for the sole use of the named organization and may not be reproduced, redistributed, or used for benchmarking purposes without prior written consent.

Data submitted through this assessment may be used in anonymized, aggregated form to contribute to the SoT AI Benchmark Index where consent has been provided. Individual assessment data is not shared with third parties. For privacy inquiries contact [email protected].

The SoT AI IQ-Lite™ Assessment is a directional diagnostic based on a single self-reported question per layer. For a full 90+ sub-area diagnostic covering all nine layers, contact Strategy of Things to arrange a Tier 2 QuickScan or Tier 3 Full Assessment.

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