Adoption

Use a 90-day review window to test one investment decision.

Choose one important workflow, one measurable problem, and named owners. Ninety days is an illustrative review time-box, not a guarantee of evidence or permission to operate. Scale, adapt, stop, or defer according to evidence and capacity.

One bounded value streamEvidence before scale
  1. Day 0
    BaselineValue · risk · cost
  2. 1–30
    DiagnoseProblem + ownership
  3. 31–60
    ActivatePractice + control
  4. 61–90
    ReviewOutcome + learning
Day 90 decision
ScaleAdaptStopDefer

Executive starting point

Decide what deserves funding before scoring maturity.

Name the business outcome and baseline, compare AI with non-AI alternatives, estimate whole-life cost and review capacity, and agree an owner, evidence threshold and stop criteria. A capability profile informs this decision; it does not replace the business case.

Guided self-check

See what is ready, what is uncertain, and what to strengthen next.

Answer using what your team can demonstrate today. You will receive a private action brief, not a rating, audit, certification, or independently verified maturity result. The detailed 60-statement Candidate method remains available inside the assessment for reviewers; it does not establish calibration of the instrument.

  1. 01Frame the decision
  2. 02Score the evidence
  3. 03Act on the result
Step 1 of 3

Declare what you are assessing and why.

The profile is meaningful only inside a named boundary. This tool runs in your browser and does not submit or store your answers.

Choose the assessment boundary

Changing what you are assessing or the information date clears earlier answers because they may no longer describe the same situation.

What decision should this profile support?

This is a guided self-check, not a rating, audit, certification, legal or safety determination, or prediction of results.

Self-assessment heuristic only; not a calibrated measurement, certification, legal or conformity assessment, safety determination, or predictor of external outcomes. Answers remain self-reported in this tool and require evidence review before consequential use. Reviewing an assessment does not establish calibration of the instrument.

90-day adoption path

Visibility. Control. Learning.

Each phase must produce a useful decision and supporting evidence, not just meetings and documents.

Days 1-30

Establish visibility

  • Inventory material AI use cases and suppliers
  • Name product, engineering, risk, release, and service owners
  • Classify value, affected parties, autonomy, and risk
  • Map models, prompts, data, knowledge, tools, and agents
  • Select one bounded pilot
Evidence produced

Portfolio inventory, ownership map, risk profile, maturity baseline, pilot charter

Days 31-60

Establish control

  • Apply the nine-stage AI SDLC to the pilot
  • Define behaviour, boundaries, thresholds, and human authority
  • Create architecture, evaluation, security, and control records
  • Version prompts, models, tools, context, policies, and tests
  • Define release, operations, rollback, and escalation
Evidence produced

Traceability matrix, evaluation record, security record, release-readiness package

Days 61-90

Establish learning

  • Operate only after the applicable evidence and authorisation gates pass; otherwise defer and close the gaps
  • If authorised to operate, observe real quality, risk, cost, reliability, and adoption
  • Capture corrections, overrides, incidents, and user feedback
  • Turn evidence into controlled changes and regression tests
  • Extract initial patterns, anti-patterns, and platform needs
  • Reassess the evidence and decide whether to scale, adapt, stop, or defer
Evidence produced

If operated: dashboard and learning records. Otherwise: gap, owner, capacity and deferral records. Neither the date nor preparation closes a gate.

For implementers and reviewers

Trace each 30-day phase to the book and governed controls.

The First Edition manuscript is mapped to EAINE’s framework and reference architecture (Framework baseline: EAINE v1.0 · Released 20 October 2026). Verification of the latest revision remains in progress.

Framework baseline: EAINE v1.0Officially Released 20 October 2026

Most readers can follow the 90-day path without identifiers. Open this reference when you need to implement, review, or cite the phase gates precisely.

Open the adoption control map

The First Edition manuscript is mapped to EAINE’s framework and reference architecture (Framework baseline: EAINE v1.0 · Released 20 October 2026). Verification of the latest revision remains in progress.

First Edition, 2026 · ISBN 978-93-345-4606-4 · Framework baseline: EAINE v1.0 · Released 20 October 2026. Review snapshot: 19 September 2026, covering the 7 September manuscript revision. Chapter-lineage and claim reconciliation remain open. The mappings below are navigation references, not verified alignment or independent review evidence.

Days 1-30

No pilot work should start without ownership, risk profiling, and use-case boundary definitions.

Book anchor

Chapter 12: Decide What to Build and Chapter 22 preconditions

Primary control references

DOM-001, DOM-002, CMP-001, CMP-002, DEC-011, DEC-012

Website anchor

/framework

Days 31-60

Apply one complete lifecycle slice with controlled autonomy, model/prompt policies, and release readiness prep.

Book anchor

Chapter 16: Secure, Authorise, and Operate the Release

Primary control references

DOM-002, DOM-006, DOM-007, DOM-008, CMP-003, CMP-009, CMP-010, CMP-011

Website anchor

/ai-sdlc

Days 61-90

Decision readiness requires observed signals, incident handling, rollback evidence, and controlled reprioritisation.

Book anchor

Chapter 17 and Chapter 22

Primary control references

DOM-009, DOM-010, CMP-012, CMP-013, CMP-015, REC-015, REC-016

Website anchor

/evidence

Starter pack

The essential records for a credible pilot.

Case-study builder

Turn bounded implementation and outcome evidence into a professional draft without inventing results.

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Executive brief

Align the problem, risk appetite, outcomes, decision rights, and pilot.

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Business case

Compare AI and non-AI alternatives, costs, capacity, value and stop criteria.

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Maturity worksheet

Record dimension selections, unknowns, evidence gaps, owners, and actions.

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Use-case brief

Define value, affected parties, constraints, risk, ownership, and success measures.

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Traceability matrix

Connect obligations and risks to controls, owners, evidence, gates, and signals.

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Evaluation record

Define claims, representative cases, thresholds, results, limitations, and decisions.

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Release-readiness record

Bring evidence, approvals, residual risk, operations, and rollback into one gate.

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