AI Readiness Advisory - Digitalent x Lumo
The AI clock is ticking. In 6 weeks, you'll know exactly what to do.
Why Do Companies Need This?
About Us
This service is a collaboration between Digitalent and Lumo. We are two UKAI members who met at a House of Lords UKAI roundtable. As a partnership delivering this service, we are combining:
- Digitalent: Deep global expertise in AI, ML, and Data recruitment and talent
- Lumo: The AI enablement company helping businesses to understand, design, integrate and embed AI to create, scale and sustain long term value.
We created this service after hearing the same phrase over and over from clients:
"We need to do AI… but we don’t know where to start."
74% of AI Initiatives Fail Before They Start
Many leadership teams feel pressure to "do AI" but lack the clarity, confidence, and coordination to act.
Common blockers we hear:
- "We don’t know where to start."
- "We don’t want to waste time or money on hype."
- "We’re not aligned internally."
- "We’re not ready to hire yet... we don’t even know who we need."
- "We're covered... we know what we are doing."
AI isn't a tools problem. It’s an organisational readiness problem. That’s where we come in.
Who Is This For?
This service is for companies that are:
- Curious about AI but unsure what’s actually worth doing
- Receiving board pressure to act but don’t want to make false starts
- Midway through AI experimentation and lacking clarity on next steps
- Not ready to hire technical talent yet want to prepare for it
If you’re asking "where do we start?" or "what should we stop doing?" this is for you.
What You’ll Get (In Just 4–6 Weeks)
We provide a board-level advisory outcome that gets you:
- A baseline of your AI readiness across people, process, culture, and data
- A shortlist of high-impact, low-risk use cases tailored to your business
- A leadership-aligned change and transformation plan
- A clear talent strategy and hiring horizon... when and who to hire (and when not to)
The outcome is simple... a plan you can act on.
What Makes This Service Different?
- Fast & Light Touch: Delivered in weeks, not months
- Cross-functional Readiness: We align leadership, process, and people
- No Tech to Sell: We are advisors, not software vendors
- Hiring Roadmap: You’ll know when to hire, and who
- Built for the Boardroom: Executive-level outputs, not consultancy theatre
Outcomes You Can Expect
Our process is built for real-world impact, not just insight. These are the outcomes we consistently deliver to leadership teams navigating AI for the first time:- Executive-level clarity on how to act or not act on AI
- Avoided spend on misaligned pilots and hires
- An aligned leadership team with a clear shared direction
- A tangible 90-day action plan to de-risk and accelerate adoption
What The Process Looks Like
Here's how we create a credible roadmap in just 4-6 weeks.
Step 1: Online Maturity Assessment
A rapid, diagnostic tool that helps you understand how ready you are to implement, adopt & scale AI. In a few minutes, you’ll get an initial, tailored score across five key dimensions from strategy & technology through to your operating model & people - with practical recommendations on where to start.
Step 2: Strategic Workshops
Two focused, leadership-level sessions designed to clarify ambition, surface blockers, and build alignment. In the first we level set on the reality of AI – what it is, what it isn’t, the risks & the opportunity. In the second we focus on you – your business, your operating context & your constraints – and how we build the path to value.
Step 3: Deep Dive Interviews
Targeted breakouts & 1:1 conversations with key stakeholders, uncovering real-world use cases, internal friction, and readiness gaps. These sessions go beyond theory to surface where AI can drive value - directly informing your roadmap, approach and change strategy.
Step 4: Executive Playback & 90-Day Plan
This phase focuses on playback & planning. We’ll run an executive playback that synthesises findings into a maturity and readiness scorecard (outcomes, data, technology, operating model, people); conduct a friction analysis to surface risks with clear mitigations; map and prioritise use cases by impact, readiness and complexity; and convert this into a focused 90‑day starter plan to mobilise, build, activate and optimise.