Should
you?

Nine honest questions about your organisation's relationship with AI. Not a readiness score. Not a maturity framework. A mirror, for leaders and teams both.

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The question nobody in AI is asking.

Every AI conversation in business is happening in two places. In the boardroom, where leaders weigh investment, risk, and competitive pressure. And at the coalface, where people are already using tools nobody approved, because they're curious, frustrated, or trying to stay ahead.

Both conversations need to happen. Most organisations are having neither.

A note on how this works. I'm a project manager. I've spent years navigating change with people, not for them, not as a postbox, in the dirt, working it through. These questions come from that experience. They're honest questions that deserve honest answers. There are no good scores here, only true ones.
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Question 8 of 9 · UK Data
A figure worth sitting with.
This isn't a trick question. There's no right response. Just read it and write what it brings up.
71%

of UK workers have used unapproved AI tools for work. More than half do so weekly. Most are not trying to circumvent security. They are trying to do their jobs.

Microsoft / Censuswide UK Workforce Survey · 2025
Does this figure surprise you, and what does your answer tell you about your organisation? Optional
Question 9 of 9 · The honest one
What are you most afraid of getting wrong?
Not what the board is afraid of. Not what the press release says. What you, personally, lie awake about when this comes to mind at 2am.
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This is bigger than
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The conversation about AI and people, shadow use, honest governance, what it means for jobs and communities, needs more voices. Not corporate voices. Human ones. If you want to stay connected to where this thinking goes, leave your details. No newsletter. No sales sequence. Just occasional, relevant thinking from someone in the dirt with you.

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That's the hardest part of any of this. The willingness to look at it clearly, without defensive framing or borrowed optimism. Whatever your result, the fact that you sat with the questions matters.

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