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Independent · 30 minutes · no credit card
StackUp AI report · Sample Co+5
62
Embedded
Positioned to win74
Actually working58
What could go wrong61
Can we keep up49
Score history6 assessments
9 areas need attentionBoard report ready
30 min
Typical time to complete
0-100
Single AI Maturity Score
4 pillars
The questions every board will ask
The stakes
AI is now a board-level issue. Treat it like one.
Most boards have no independent measure of where they actually stand. This causes:
Risk you can't see
Boards are increasingly accountable for AI oversight. Shareholders, regulators, and auditors all expect a defensible answer on governance, data exposure, and bias. Most boards have no independent measure of where they actually stand.
Capital you may be misallocating
AI budgets balloon without ROI evidence. Without an independent baseline, you're approving spend on assumptions no one has tested, and you'll find out which ones were wrong long after the money is gone.
Ground you may be losing
Your peers are eighteen months ahead, or eighteen months behind. Without a benchmark, you're guessing about your competitive position on the technology shift that defines the next decade.
The four questions
The four questions your board will ask
StackUp's assessment gives you the answers, benchmarked against best practice, and other organisations. Know where you lead, where you lag, and what to do about it.
Are we positioned to win?
Strategy, ambition, competitive position, time horizons. Where you sit on the spectrum from defensive to offensive.
Is it actually working?
Outcomes, ROI, adoption depth, measurable productivity gains. Whether the spend is producing results.
What could go wrong?
Risk, governance, data exposure, regulatory, vendor, brand. The questions auditors will ask first.
Can we keep up?
People, capability, tooling, execution velocity. Whether you can move at the speed the market is moving.
What you get
A board pack, not a research project.
Free covers the headline numbers your board wants on the first slide. Premium adds the deep dive that backs them up.
AI maturity report · Sample Co
62/ 100
EmbeddedAI Risk: MediumFree
Framework readiness
NIST AI RMF
68%
EU AI Act
54%
ISO 42001
47%
Prioritised recommendations
PremiumFree
(account required)- Single 0-100 AI Maturity Score
- Named maturity level: AI Aware, AI Adopting, AI Embedded, AI Leading
- AI Risk Rating: Low, Medium or High (separate from maturity)
- Framework readiness % (NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO 42001)
- Per-pillar score breakdown across the four board questions
- AI-by-department heatmap
- Executive summary written by your AI CTO
- Severity breakdown: At Risk, Average and Excellent areas
- Score over time as you re-assess each quarter
- AI CTO chat to walk through your results
Premium
(unlock when you're ready)- Prioritised recommendations linked to the answers that drove them
- Per-pillar delta since your last assessment
- Benchmark vs other organisations on StackUp
- Per-control framework gap analysis (NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO 42001)
- AI Evidence Vault: upload artefacts to substantiate your answers
- Board-ready executive PDF
- Editable executive PowerPoint deck
Equivalent consulting engagement: $50k+ and 8 weeks. Premium runs on the same StackUp account, billed monthly. Money-back guarantee.
Why StackUp
Built for board cycles. Not consulting cycles.
The same independent rigour as a six-figure consulting engagement, in a form a board can actually use.
30 minutes, not 12 weeks
Board cycles don't wait for a quarter-long engagement. Get a defensible number before your next meeting.
Proof, not hope
StackUp analyses the evidence supporting each answer, so your maturity score reflects what's actually in place, not just what's claimed.
Independent by design
No product or service upsell or kickbacks. A proudly independent platform.
Re-run quarterly
Track maturity over time. Show progress on a board slide, not in a one-shot PDF that goes stale.
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- 30 minutes to start, no credit card
- Money-back guarantee on Premium
- Designed by senior technology leaders with decades scaling award-winning teams
Questions
The things people ask first
How long does it take?
About thirty minutes, and you can start without a credit card. It is written to be answered from what you already know rather than from documents you have to go and find, and you can leave it and come back.
What do I get without paying?
A single AI Maturity Score out of 100 with a named level (AI Aware, AI Adopting, AI Embedded or AI Leading), an AI Risk Rating kept separate from maturity, framework readiness percentages, the per-pillar breakdown, an AI-by-department heatmap, an executive summary, and the AI CTO chat to walk you through it. Premium adds the prioritised recommendations, the benchmark against other organisations, the per-control gap analysis and the board-ready PDF and deck.
Which frameworks does it map to?
NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act and ISO 42001. The free report gives you a readiness percentage against each; Premium opens that up into a per-control gap analysis so you can see which specific controls are behind the number.
Is the risk rating the same as the maturity score?
No, and that is deliberate. An organisation can be adopting AI quickly and carrying serious risk at the same time, so collapsing the two into one number hides exactly the thing a board needs to see. You get both, reported separately.
Who should fill it in?
Whoever holds the most of the picture: usually a CTO, CIO or head of data, sometimes the COO. Departments can be scored separately, which is what produces the heatmap, so you do not need one person who knows everything.
What happens to our answers?
They stay private to your organisation and are not shared. Premium carries a money-back guarantee.
The rest of the platform
Six other things you can run
Each answers a different question. They all land in the same place.
Technology Assessment
The whole technology function, scored out of 100.
How it worksDigital Governance Assessment
Where your board stands on digital governance, tied to the laws that apply.
How it worksAI Leadership Skills
Whether your leaders could defend the AI strategy they set.
How it worksProject Assessment
A health score for one project, calculated not reported.
How it worksDiscovery Agents
Ask your team directly, rather than waiting for it to travel up.
How it worksCrisis Tabletop Simulation
An hour deciding your way through a year of incidents.
How it worksGet your StackUp AI Maturity Score
Takes 30 minutes. Costs nothing. Reveals everything.