AI Architect 818Leader self-assessment

AI Readiness Pulse™

Fifteen statements, five guardrails and your 90-day plan. About ten minutes.

Before you begin

Where does your organization stand on AI today?

The Pulse measures readiness in three domains: Leadership and Strategy, People and Culture, and Data and Governance. You will see your stage in each one, check the five guardrails every organization needs before anyone uses AI at work, and build a 90-day plan. At the end, you download your Leader Workbook, already filled in with your results.

Answer for your organization as it is today. Give a 4 or 5 only when you can point to evidence: a document, a decision or a named person.

The five stages

Your name As it should appear on your workbook Organization Optional

Your answers are saved in this browser on this device, so you can stop and come back later. Nothing is sent to anyone, including Dr. Chohan, unless you choose to share your Pulse code.

Readiness report

Your Leader WorkbookA PDF with your scores, guardrails, 90-day plan and board questions, filled in from your answers. Add your plan below first, or download it now and complete the blank parts by hand.

Where the evidence is thin

Your three lowest statements

For each one, this is the evidence to look for. When you can show it, the score can honestly rise.

Five Guardrails Self-Check

Your guardrails today

Choose one priority

Your weakest guardrail is a very good place to start your first thirty days.

Our first priority First step Owner By when

My 90-Day AI Plan

One problem · one owner · one measured pilot · one decision

1. The one problem we will use AI to help solve A real task that costs time, money or quality. Write a problem, not a tool.

2. How we will measure it

Time, cost, quality or client experience. Measure before you start.

MeasureTodayTarget by day 90

3. People

Who owns itWho must agree

4. Boundaries for our pilot

Data the AI may useData that stays outApproved tool or account

The AI may…	Allowed	Ask first	Not allowed

Ask first = a person approves each time.

5. Ninety days

Day-90 decision: Is the result measurably better? Is the risk under control? Scale, adjust or stop.

6. The guardrails we commit to

What I will do on Monday morning

Twelve Questions for Management

Questions to take to your board or leadership team

You do not need to ask all twelve at once. Three are ticked for you, based on your lowest statements and guardrails. Ask for evidence, not reassurance: a document, a decision or a named person.

Board test at day 90: is the result measurably better, and is the risk under control?

Your Pulse code

Taking part in a Team Readiness Debrief? Send this code to Dr. Chohan. It holds only your 15 scores and 5 guardrail marks, with no names.

Keep your results

Download, revise or talk it through

Take the Pulse again at day 90 to see what has moved. To talk through your results with Dr. Farzana Chohan, book a 30-minute call.

Human intelligence leadsPurpose, judgment, ethics, accountability

Artificial intelligence assistsSpeed, drafting, summarizing, scale

Dr. Farzana Chohan · AI readiness, ethics and governance advisor to leaders and boards · aiarchitect818@gmail.com © 2026 Dr. Farzana Chohan. All rights reserved. AI Readiness Pulse™ and its frameworks are intellectual property. Each licence is for one person. Not for resale or redistribution.