How do you gain control over AI in your organisation?

BDO’s AI Maturity Assessment

Discover your AI maturity level
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AI is everywhere. Yet in many organisations, it’s still confined to individual experiments or people rather than embedded in daily operations and teams. AI adoption rarely fails because of technology. It fails when you lose visibility and control as AI spreads across your teams, tools and processes.  

At the same time, expectations are rising. Boards want to see higher revenue with less costs and risks, while customers increasingly expect lower prices and higher quality. Regulators count on traceability and responsible governance. 

In short, there’s lots of pressure to maximise AI potential, yet a lot of companies aren’t ready yet. 

The BDO AI Maturity Assessment can help you move forward with AI use in a structured way. It’s a pragmatic, modular and lightweight analysis that gives you a clear view of where you stand, what matters most, and what to do next. 

How do you know if you are in control?

Based on our experience working closely with organisations, leadership teams often cannot confidently answer key questions regarding the use of AI: 

  • Where is AI (not) being used?
  • Where can AI really help us to improve our service and make it more efficient? 
  • What data flows through AI systems? 
  • Are we confident on the strength of controls over AI applications? 
  • Who owns the related risks? 
  • Are our current AI ambitions realistic? 

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What does an AI Maturity Assessment involve?

Whether you are just starting with AI or already scaling AI initiatives, the assessment provides a clear reference point to understand your current maturity, identify priority areas for improvement, and define a pragmatic roadmap forward. 

The assessment focuses on your organisational capabilities rather than isolated use cases, giving you a holistic view of how AI is embedded and governed across your organisation. It helps you move from chaos to structure so you can allocate your budget based on your priorities. 

How does an AI assessment work? | The methodology in short 

Together we can unlock the full business value of AI by focusing on what truly enables scaling and impact in three steps. 

AI Maturity Scan

Through a focused AI vision workshop, we define your ambitions across key capabilities, so your business, IT and risk stakeholders share one direction.  

From there, we assess how AI is being used: 

  • how use cases emerge and evolve across teams 
  • what is (and isn’t) making it into production 
  • how decisions are made, documented and governed 
  • and where friction slows down value creation

This is complemented by targeted stakeholder discussions and a focused review of existing documentation. The goal here is to move beyond theory and capture how your organisation truly operates.

We then assess your organisation across key AI capabilities, such as strategy, governance, data and suppliers. The framework is designed to be flexible, allowing us to focus on the domains most relevant to your organisation rather than requiring a full assessment every time. This gives you a clear, comparable view of your maturity, and highlights the few gaps that truly limit your ability to scale. 

These insights are consolidated into a maturity heatmap and a prioritised action roadmap that help you: 

  • bring more AI use cases into production 
  • accelerate value creation from existing initiatives 
  • and scale AI in a controlled and sustainable way

This turns your AI initiatives into production-ready solutions with real business impact, instead of leaving them stuck in experimentation. 

What you can expect

Every deliverable is built for decision-making: 

  • A clear view of your current state versus target maturity, per capability 
  • A set of non-overlapping, tangible and prioritised deliverables 
  • A practical roadmap you can execute incrementally, without losing business momentum 
  • Support implementing your AI programme management in practice
AI Maturity Scan

Why act on your AI maturity now? 

Many organisations are already investing in AI, but without the right foundations to scale effectively. As a result, initiatives remain fragmented, use cases fail to reach production, and costs accumulate without delivering proportional value.  

AI technology keeps evolving and expectations keep rising. Without a clear structure, that growth only adds friction, risk and inefficiency. 

Act early and you take control of that momentum: you turn experimentation into scalable solutions, reduce waste, and capture real business value. Wait, and you risk chaos in your AI landscape, making scaling more complex and new implementations more costly. 

Interested in our AI Maturity Assessment?

Ready to understand where your organisation truly stands? 
Contact our AI experts to discuss your AI ambitions and identify the capabilities that matter most for your next stage of growth.

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