Data Foundations for AI
Is your data ready for AI?
DF4AI is a self-assessment that helps enterprises understand how prepared their data, governance, and culture are for AI and AI agents. In about 10 minutes, you'll get a clear picture of your strengths and gaps across five key data foundations.
Architecture, quality, governance, documentation, culture.
30 focused questions plus a high-level scorecard.
Upgrade later for human insight, roadmap, and executive readout.
The Five Dimensions
A practical lens for understanding how AI-ready your data foundations really are.
DF4AI looks beyond tools and hype. It focuses on the core data conditions you need in place before AI and AI agents can reliably support your teams and customers.
How well your data is structured, integrated, and discoverable so AI systems can actually find and use what they need.
Signals: source systems, integration patterns, semantic layer, data catalog.
The accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of the data your AI depends on—so it doesn't confidently automate the wrong thing.
Signals: data validation, monitoring, SLAs, ownership, remediation loops.
The policies, controls, and decision rights that keep AI safe, ethical, and aligned with regulation and internal risk appetite.
Signals: data access model, approvals, risk reviews, AI use policies.
The metadata, definitions, and lineage that make your data—and AI outputs—understandable to both humans and machines.
Signals: business glossary, metric definitions, lineage, change history.
The behaviors, literacy, and incentives that determine whether people actually trust, adopt, and improve AI-powered workflows.
Signals: data literacy, training, incentives, experimentation norms.
Who is DF4AI for?
DF4AI works best when it's completed by people who understand how data really flows across your organization — not just the tools, but the architecture, quality, governance, documentation, and culture that support AI.
Data & AI Leaders
CDOs, Heads of Data, Analytics, or AI who need a clear, shared view of whether the data estate is ready for AI, automation, and agents.
IT Managers & Directors
Technology and platform leaders responsible for the systems, integrations, and reliability behind your data platform and analytics stack.
BI Practitioners
Analytics, BI, and data product owners who know how data is used day to day — reports, dashboards, metrics, and self-service workflows across the business.
DF4AI is especially valuable for medium and large organizations with multiple systems and stakeholders. One person can complete it, but the strongest insights come when data, IT, and BI leaders review the results together.
How DF4AI Works
In about ten minutes, you'll move from a vague sense of "we're not ready" to a clear, shared picture of where your data foundations stand — and what to do next.
Take the assessment
Answer 30 focused questions across the five dimensions, plus a few profile questions about your organization, sector, and AI ambitions.
Designed to be completed in a single sitting by a data or AI leader — or collaboratively with your team.
See your readiness profile
Get an overall readiness score plus dimension-level scores, strengths, and gaps — all mapped back to the five foundations.
Export a PDF summary or CSV of responses so you can share, analyze, and track progress over time.
Choose your next step
Stay with the free scorecard, upgrade for deeper automated insights, or add expert review and an executive-ready roadmap.
DF4AI meets you where you are — from early discovery to board-level AI strategy conversations.
Ready to see where you stand?
Start with the free assessment today. You can always upgrade later once you see the value.