Before you spend a dollar building AI, there’s a cheaper, smarter first move: find out whether your business is actually ready, and where AI will pay off. That’s what an AI readiness assessment does. This page explains what it covers and how dgm delivers one. (dgm implements osFoundry, a separate company’s platform — we are not osFoundry.)

What a readiness assessment evaluates

A proper assessment is a structured diagnostic, not a sales call. It examines:

  • Your data. Is it clean, accessible, and in a form AI can use? Data is where most AI projects quietly fail, so this comes first.
  • Your tools and stack. What you run today, where tools overlap, and what can be connected (or consolidated).
  • Your workflows. Where the friction, volume, and cost actually are — the places AI could move a real number.
  • Your opportunities, ranked. A prioritized list by ROI and feasibility, so you know what to do first.
  • Your gaps and risks. What you need to fix before AI will work — and where AI isn’t the right tool at all.

Why it’s the highest-leverage first step

Most failed AI initiatives were predictable. The data wasn’t accessible; there was no integration path; the chosen use case had no real ROI. An assessment surfaces these before you commit to a build, which is exactly when fixing them is cheap. Spending a little to learn what’s feasible is far less expensive than spending a lot to discover what isn’t. It’s the difference between investing on evidence and betting on hope.

Honesty is the point

A readiness assessment is only valuable if it’s willing to deliver bad news: your data isn’t ready, this use case won’t pay off, you should fix X before automating Y. An assessment that always concludes “yes, buy the big project” isn’t a diagnostic — it’s a sales funnel. dgm’s assessment is designed to tell you the truth, including when the right answer is “not yet” or “not this.” That honesty is what makes the roadmap worth acting on.

What dgm delivers for $399

dgm’s assessment is fixed-price and concrete:

  • A readiness assessment across your data, tools, and workflows.
  • A prioritized integration roadmap — what to do first, in what order, and why.
  • A clear view of gaps and risks to close before building.

It’s $399, one-time, with no per-seat fees — and you keep the roadmap whether or not you continue with dgm. If the assessment says you’re ready, the natural next steps are AI Strategy Consulting or AI Implementation Services; if it says you’re not, you’ll know exactly what to fix.

How dgm helps

dgm gives US businesses an honest, structured read on whether — and where — AI will work for them, for a fixed $399, with a roadmap they can act on. If you’d rather explore the platform yourself first, you can go straight to osFoundry; if you want to start with evidence instead of a guess, the assessment is where dgm comes in.