The free AI Readiness Assessment

Know exactly where AI will pay off in your business

Answer about 20 questions in 10 minutes. Shane Chalupa, P.E. scores your business across the six systems that make AI work, then walks you through your report and the one first move worth making, at no cost.

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Every assessment is personally reviewed by Shane Chalupa, P.E., with over a decade inside DuPont and Air Products.

What you get

A consulting-grade deliverable, at no cost

Your report uses the same six-systems diagnostic that opens our paid AI Clarity engagements, and Shane reviews it himself before it reaches you. You get the scored read first, and the conversation about it comes after.

  • Your scored readiness report

    A score from 1 to 10 across Direction, People and Agents, Company Brain, Guardrails, Workflows, and Yield.

  • Your maturity band

    Where you sit on the five-level scale from Ad Hoc to Optimized, with your costliest gaps flagged in plain language.

  • Your first move

    One specific, sequenced recommendation you can act on without hiring anyone first.

  • A shareable one-page summary

    Made to put in front of your leadership team without a single slide of explanation.

Personally reviewed before it goes out, then walked through with you on a call.

The framework

Scored across the six systems that make AI work

Your score measures the six operating systems that decide whether AI takes hold in a business like yours. The weakest one is usually where your first move lives, and your report names it.

  1. Direction

    Where you are taking AI and which use cases earn the first slot.

  2. People and Agents

    Who on your team actually uses AI, and what they can do with it.

  3. Company Brain

    Whether your AI can actually reach the data and knowledge it needs.

  4. Guardrails

    The policy and security posture that keeps shadow AI from spreading.

  5. Workflows

    Which processes get redesigned around AI, and the tooling behind them.

  6. Yield

    How you measure return and keep results from fading after the first win.

What clients have reported

What changed for other owners

We reached each of these through the same six-systems lens your assessment uses.

Workflows 6 to 10 hours reclaimed every week

A client with a purchase-order-heavy review cycle reports reclaiming 6 to 10 hours a week.

Company Brain 12 to 1 hours on one recurring task

Another reports cutting a recurring 12-hour data task down to about 1 hour.

People and Agents 3 to 8 hours saved per person, per week

Cohort participants report saving 3 to 8 hours per person every week with practical AI in daily work.

Owners misjudge their own readiness in both directions. One recent owner self-rated 3 out of 10 and scored 5.7, and the system behind that gap became the first move. Your report gives you the same kind of read, which gain sits closest and what stands in the way of it.

These are individual results reported to us, and they are not a prediction of what your business will see.

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How it works

Ten minutes now, then a clear answer we walk through together

  1. Take the assessment

    About 20 questions on how your business runs today. Most owners finish in 10 minutes.

  2. Shane scores your answers

    He personally scores your business against the same six-systems framework used in paid engagements.

  3. We review it together

    We email your scored report and one-page summary, and we set up a short call to walk through the results and your first move together.

Shane Chalupa, P.E.

Who does the scoring

The person who scores your business

Shane Chalupa, P.E. · Obnovit

Shane is a licensed Professional Engineer who spent over a decade inside DuPont and Air Products before co-founding Obnovit. Today he helps business owners put AI to work inside the six systems, and he reads every assessment submission himself.

A note on timing. Because each report is reviewed by hand rather than generated, they go out in the order assessments arrive.

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See where your business stands

Ten minutes of answers now brings back a scored report, a shareable one-page summary, and a call to walk through what it means for your business.

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Every report is reviewed by hand by Shane Chalupa, P.E., before it reaches you.

Free, with no obligation to buy anything. We use your answers to prepare your report and to reach out about reviewing it with you, and we do not sell or share them.

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