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The Agentic AI Readiness Assessment is a structured triage-style diagnostic that gives you a complete and systematic map of your agentic AI posture and a prioritised list of next steps.
Fixed fee: £500 per respondent | Duration: 90 minutes | Written output delivered within 48 hours
Who This Is For
Adopting agentic workflows introduces both a new class of risk – agentic AI risk – and a new way of working into your organisation or business unit. As a result, the Agentic AI Readiness Assessment is for you if you are in one of these three scenarios:
You Intend To Deploy Agentic Workflows
When you intend to deploy operational agentic workflows (beyond just admin assistants) and want to know what you should do to be ready to manage them.
You Are Receiving Questions
When a board member, regulator, or auditor has asked a question about agentic workflows that you cannot yet fully answer.
Your Agent Estate Has Grown Faster Than Your Governance
When staff already have access to agent-building tools and agents are being built, shared, and deployed at a pace your current governance was not designed to manage.
In all three cases, the Agentic AI Readiness Assessment will illuminate the strengths and weaknesses in your readiness to manage agentic workflows and prioritise your response.
What The Agentic AI Readiness Assessment Is – And What It Is Not
An agentic AI readiness assessment is a structured diagnostic that evaluates a business’ agentic AI posture across three fundamental categories in a single facilitated session:
- Strategic readiness will tell you whether your organisation is in control of its agentic AI agenda or being led by it.
- Technical and operational readiness will indicate whether the firm can actually build and run what it is committing to deploy.
- Organisational readiness tells a manager whether a firm can govern and sustain agentic AI operations over time, not just launch them.
The session will identify any issues rapidly and prioritise your immediate next steps. It will not diagnose the issues and their root causes.
The output is a two-to-three-page written report, delivered within 48 hours, that will highlight the key findings in how well-connected your organisation is across three categories.
You can act on it immediately and share with your line manager, CRO, Head of AI, or other stakeholders.
How It Works in 3 Steps
Step 1 –Assessment Scope Definition (sent when you book)
So that the 90 minutes are spent on your readiness rather than on establishing what we are assessing, we send you the Assessment Scope Definition when you book.
It comprises six questions. They establish which organisation or business unit we are assessing, which kinds of agent are in your estate today or planned within twelve months, which of those are in scope, the most autonomous thing you expect an agent to do, what is prompting you to look at this now, and who has approved the scope.
Completing it takes around 3 minutes.
Step 2 – The 90-minute session
Delivered by one of Agentic Risks’ senior practitioners, the session works through the prerequisites needed for the three categories:
Minutes 1–10
Scope confirmation – we confirm the scope your colleague or you will have already defined to ensure a consistent assessment across multiple respondents.
Minutes 11–30
Strategic prerequisites
- Understanding strategic readiness will tell you whether the organisation is deploying agentic AI in pursuit of clearly defined objectives or maybe reacting to external momentum.
- It will confirm whether the extent of risk appetite, compliance exposure, and accountability has been established, preventing costly course corrections later.
- It will assess use-case selection and implementation, and whether organisational capacity matches aspiration.
- Without this foundation, a firm risks deploying powerful technology in the wrong places, at the wrong pace, and without the executive clarity needed to defend decisions to regulators or boards.
Minutes 31-50
Technical and operational prerequisites
- Recognising technical and operational readiness will indicate whether your firm has the infrastructure, data, and engineering capability to build and run agentic workflows reliably.
- This section will cover how platforms are selected, whether the data on which agents depend is fit for purpose, and the extent to which systems are tested and secured before they are exposed to live operations.
- Performed early, it also surfaces capability gaps you can address through hiring or partnering rather than discovering mid-deployment.
- Without this foundation, firms risk deploying agentic workflows that behave unpredictably in production, consume unreliable data, or create cybersecurity exposures that, otherwise, may only become visible after a failure.
Minutes 51–80
Organisational prerequisites
- Appreciating your organisational readiness will tell you whether your business has the governance structures, human oversight mechanisms, and operational procedures needed to manage an agentic workflow once it is live.
- This section will examine whether risks are monitored through defined indicators, whether incidents can be detected and responded to systematically, and whether the workforce is prepared for the changes that agentic deployment brings to roles and operating models.
- It also covers third-party dependencies and the management of risk in your agentic supply chain that may be outside your firm’s direct control.
- Without this foundation, a business could operate agentic systems without the controls needed to catch problems early, respond effectively when things go wrong, or demonstrate responsible deployment to regulators.
Minutes 81–90
Verbal Summary And Recommended Next Step – we summarise the three to five most significant gaps and give you a specific recommendation for what to address first.
Step 3 – Written Readiness Report (delivered within 48 hours)
Within 48 hours of the session, you will receive a two-to-three-page written report.
It will be in plain English, with zero jargon, and structured to be immediately useful and shareable internally.
The Agentic AI Readiness Assessment report contains five sections:
Scope and
Introduction
The agreed scope as set out in your Assessment Scope Definition – the organisation or business unit, the agents in scope and those excluded, and the level of autonomy being assessed against – plus the time, date, and participants.
Readiness posture
A one-page visualisation of your readiness posture across the three categories of prerequisites.
Priority findings
The 3-5 most significant findings from the session. Not an exhaustive list of everything that could be improved – a focused and constructive assessment of what matters most and why.
Prioritised next steps
A prioritised list of next steps needed to address any gaps.
Further support
(if applicable)
If we can help you with any of your next steps, we will direct you to the relevant service.
Sessions are delivered by Adam Grainger, Managing Director at Agentic Risks and a recognised expert on agentic risk management.
The Readiness Report is intended for internal sharing. A business manager who can show their line manager and stakeholders a structured, two- to three-page assessment of their agentic posture – with clear next steps – is in a strong position 1) to secure internal support for the next step, and 2) when an auditor arrives.
Pricing and Booking
Fixed fee: £500 per respondent
Payable in full on booking.
Includes: the Assessment Scope Definition, a 90-minute structured session, written readiness report delivered within 48 hours.
Delivered virtually during UK, EU, and US time zones.
Optional Extra: Core Diagnosis Plus+
If you would also like a 30-min stakeholder debrief one week after report delivery, e.g. for your line manager, Head of AI, CRO, or other stakeholders, select the ‘Core Diagnosis Plus+’ option that provides this for an extra +£100.
The Firm Baseline Option if Assessing Readiness as a Firm
Each assessment maps readiness as seen from a single respondent’s perspective. If you want your firm’s agentic transformation plan to be evidence-based and achievable from your current position, multiple inputs create a shared view, surface any divergence in perspectives, and give you the strongest basis for whatever you decide next. Our Firm Baseline option (three or more respondents, £400 per respondent) consolidates individual assessments into a single report and collective debrief. Contact us to arrange.
For Firm Baseline, the Assessment Scope Definition is completed once, by your sponsor, before any session runs. Every respondent then assesses the same estate against the same scope, so that the divergence we surface is a genuine difference of view rather than a difference in starting assumptions.
If you have any questions, check out the FAQs below or send us a message.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Agentic AI Readiness Assessment is a structured diagnostic that maps your organisation’s readiness to deploy and manage agentic AI workflows across three categories of prerequisites — strategic, technical and operational, and organisational — in a single 90-minute session. It covers 17 specific prerequisites and produces a written readiness report within 48 hours. It is designed as the natural starting point for any firm that wants to understand what it needs to have in place before deploying agentic workflows, or to assess whether its governance is adequate for an agent estate that is already operating, or to assess how its current position compares against a best practice standard.
It depends. If your firm is looking to you for direction on agentic AI, then this is for you. If your organisation is starting to get organised, then a cross-section of the core team should each contribute their perspectives. This will ensure you build a plan based on consistent and complete evidence. Technical knowledge of agentic AI is not required. Each session captures one respondent’s perspective; additional colleagues may observe, but where a firm wants a shared baseline across several stakeholders, each completes their own assessment against a scope agreed in advance – see the Firm Baseline option.
One thing: the Assessment Scope Definition, which we send when you book. It takes around three minutes and defines what we are assessing – the organisation or business unit, the agents in your estate and which of them are in scope, the level of autonomy you are working towards, what is prompting you to look at this now, and who has approved the scope. Completing it in advance means the 90 minutes are spent on your readiness.
The report concludes with a prioritised list of next steps and a specific recommendation for the most important thing to address first. If you choose to proceed with any of the suggested next steps, we will follow up to discuss the relevant service, scope, and fee in detail. There is no obligation to proceed, and the report stands alone as a useful document regardless of what you decide to do next.
The Readiness Assessment is a standalone service, priced at £500. It is not a deposit or a credit towards subsequent work. Its value lies in the quality and utility of the diagnostic output itself – and in many cases, firms find the written report valuable enough to share with their board, CRO, or Head of AI before any further decision is made.
The Readiness Assessment is not a regulatory compliance audit. It evaluates your preparedness across 17 prerequisites that are necessary for any firm deploying agentic workflows, and the compliance prerequisite within the assessment covers whether you have assessed your relevant regulatory obligations – including financial services regulation, data protection law, and emerging AI legislation such as the EU AI Act.
Know your exposure. Know your next step.
Book your Agentic AI Readiness Assessment – £500 per respondent, fixed fee.
