What's Your AI Readiness Score?

AI is the answer. But where do you start?

The accounting profession is facing its biggest structural shift in decades. A projected shortfall of 160,000+ CPA professionals by 2030 — with three-quarters of today's workforce set to retire within ten years — means finance teams will permanently be expected to do more with less.

AI can close that gap. But readiness isn't about finding the right tool. It spans 8 distinct dimensions: vision, stakeholder buy-in, process clarity, automation fit, business case, vendor criteria, pilot design, and change management. Most organisations have seriously considered one or two.

The result: roughly half of all AI implementations underdeliver — almost always because something earlier in that chain was skipped. This assessment surfaces exactly where the gaps are.