Where AI earns its place in your operation
A short assessment that ranks the tasks in your operation where AI earns its place, names the ones to keep with a person, and drafts rules for the AI tools your staff already use.
- Duration
- One to two weeks for a single entity
- Output
- Use-case register · keep-human list · AI use policy draft · pilot specification
- Interviews
- On site across Saudi Arabia, or remote
- Pilot specification
- Written for any competent supplier to build
AI readiness is a one to two week assessment of your work, not a presentation about AI. We list the repeated tasks, score each on frequency, rule clarity, cost of an error and data sensitivity, then hand you a ranked register, a keep-human list, a staff AI use policy and one pilot specification.
- 01 Enquiry
- 02 Systems audit
- 03 Specification
- 04 Build
- 05 Pilot
- 06 Deploy
- 07 Handover
- 08 Support
Where AI earns its place in your operation sits at step 3 of the build cycle. You receive a written specification and scope.
Your staff are already using AI
If nobody has written rules for AI tools, somebody has probably pasted a client document into a public chat tool to write a report faster.
Nobody told them what may go in. The first job of the assessment is finding out what is being used, by whom, for what, and what data is going into it.
The point is to write rules people can follow, not to discipline anyone.
Four questions for every task
Each repeated task is scored the same way: how often it runs, whether its rules are written down, what an error costs, and whether its data can leave your environment. The rows below are illustrative. Yours are built from interviews with the people who do the work.
| Task | How it scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Retyping supplier delivery notes | Daily. Rules written. An error is cheap and caught at invoicing. Data can leave. | Pilot candidate |
| Drafting the narrative in a monthly client report | Monthly. Rules partly written. Medium cost, and a person reviews. Data can leave. | Candidate, with review |
| Answering staff questions about procedures | Daily. Rules written if documents are controlled. Medium cost. Data depends on hosting. | Candidate after document control |
| Deciding whether a supplier is approved | Weekly. Rules written. High cost. Data stays in. | Keep human |
| Grading an internal audit finding | Monthly. Rules written. High cost, because it is a conformity call. Data stays in. | Keep human |
The assessment pack
The tool inventory
What is in use now, by whom, and with what data.
The use-case register
Every repeated task scored on the four questions and ranked.
The keep-human list
The tasks to keep with a person, with the reason against each line.
The AI use policy draft
Two pages, ready for your own approval route.
The pilot specification
The top candidate, specified so any competent supplier could build it.
The management walk-through
A session with your management that goes through the register line by line.
How the one to two weeks run
- 01
Inventory the tools
Which AI tools are in use, by whom, for what, and what data goes into them.
- 02
Interview the functions
The people who do the work list the tasks they repeat and the rules they follow.
- 03
Score every task
Frequency, rule clarity, cost of an error and data sensitivity, scored the same way for each.
- 04
Rank and draw the line
The register is ranked, and the keep-human list is written with the reason against each line.
- 05
Draft the policy
Two pages your staff can follow, drafted for your approval route.
- 06
Specify one pilot
The top candidate written up as a specification any competent supplier could build.
- 07
Walk through it
A session with your management on the register, the keep-human list and the pilot.
An AI plan, due within the quarter
An engineering services company with its office in Khobar and crews on client sites is asked by its head office for an AI plan within the quarter.
The assessment starts with interviews across its main functions and an inventory of the tools already in use. It finds engineers pasting client drawings into a public chat tool to draft daily site reports.
Tasks are listed and scored. The top candidate is drafting daily site report narratives from the structured site data the crews already capture, with the site engineer approving each report. Approving timesheets and signing off inspection results go on the keep-human list, and the policy draft names which client documents stay out of unapproved tools.
The company holds the tool inventory, a ranked register, the keep-human list, a policy draft ready for approval and a pilot specification it can take to any supplier.
Inside the pack
The tasks your people should keep
This is often the most useful page in the pack. It names the tasks where the work should stay with a person and says why. A board that has seen this list trusts the rest of the register more.
- Conformity decisions
- Approvals of money
- Disciplinary decisions
- Safety-critical instructions
- Anything a regulation assigns to a competent person
- Any output nobody will read before it is used
Two pages, not twenty
Which tools are approved. Which classes of data may go into them. What a person checks before AI-assisted work is used. How AI-assisted documents are marked internally. Who to ask. It is drafted for your organisation and goes through your own approval route.
A specification anyone could build
The pilot specification is written so that any competent supplier could build it, ITF included. We will offer to build it. The decision on adoption is yours, and the assessment gives the person making it something to read.
What a board usually asks
Is this the same as ISO/IEC 42001?
It is a practical assessment of your tasks and tools. An AI management system to ISO/IEC 42001 is management-system work, and ITF Consult covers it on its own page.
Will you then try to sell us a build?
We will offer to build the pilot. The specification is written so you can take it elsewhere, and a readiness assessment that only ever recommends its author is worth little.
Do we need our data ready first?
No. The assessment is about tasks and rules. Data questions are part of what it finds.
Can you train our staff on safe use?
ITF Training runs a course on AI and digital tools in operations, built around drafting, checking and approving. It pairs well with the policy.
What drives the cost?
The number of functions interviewed, the number of sites, and whether the policy must be bilingual.
After the assessment
AI agents
The usual pilot: one repeated task, read, checked and drafted for a named approver.
Read moreDigitalAssistants over your own documents
Answers from your controlled procedures, once document control is in place.
Read moreConsultISO 42001 for how you use AI
A management system for the AI your organisation develops or uses.
Read moreTrainingAI and digital tools in operations
A one-day course for the staff who will follow the policy.
Read morePart of one system
Every division keeps records to the same standard, so the second one you need works the way the first one did.
Answer the board with a register
Book the assessment and take your board a ranked register, a keep-human list and one pilot it can approve.