Self-assessment

Try the questions I would ask

These are the questions I would ask before tracing a single figure. Each one is a short set that runs in your browser and ends in a scored read-out: what a buyer, a lender, an investor or a board tends to ask about the same subject, and where your answers would send them looking. They are free, they record nothing unless you choose to send your answers, and finishing one creates no engagement of any kind.

• Where does AI move your margin?

  Twenty questions on where AI moves the margin first, and whether anyone has put a number on it.

  For the chief executive or managing partner of a mid-market business. · about 6 minutes

• Where is the business with AI, really?

  Twenty questions about where a business actually stands with AI, rather than how many tools it has bought.

  For the chief executive, finance director, operations director or owner of a business of roughly twenty to five hundred people. · about 6 minutes

• Six questions before you rely on an AI result

  Think of one thing you are about to let AI do or decide, and answer eighteen questions about that one thing.

  For an owner, director, finance lead or professional about to act on something an AI tool has produced. · about 6 minutes

• Where does the work leak?

  Twenty questions about whether anyone has looked at how the work actually gets done, and what a machine now does inside it.

  For the owner, managing director or operations lead of a business of roughly twenty to five hundred people. · about 6 minutes