AI-readiness checklist
Is your site and business ready to plug in AI features? The checklist: data inventory, privacy lines, content provenance, access hygiene, and the eval gates to expect.
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AI features fail at readiness, not at ambition. This checklist covers the four areas that decide whether an AI feature can plug into your business cleanly, data, privacy, content, and access. It pairs with the AI-assisted build process (how AI is used during builds) and the AI services it prepares you for.
Data
- Data inventory: what exists, where it lives, who owns itYou cannot RAG over docs you cannot locate
- Data quality: formats consistent, duplicates known, staleness measuredAI amplifies whatever state your data is in
- Sensitive data classified: what must never reach an external API
- Update paths defined: who keeps the data current
Privacy
- The never-enter-a-prompt list written down: credentials, customer PII, unreleased business infoMatches the eval-gate rule on the build process page
- API terms reviewed: does the provider train on your data, can you opt out
- Regional constraints known (GDPR/EU, sector rules) if you operate there
- User-facing AI disclosures planned where required
Content
- Content provenance decided: what is human-written, AI-assisted, AI-drafted-and-edited
- AI-drafted content policy: fact-checked claim by claim before publish
- Brand voice documented enough for AI drafts to be judged against it
Access and gates
- API accounts in the business's name, keys managed and rotated
- Eval gates agreed before features ship: human review, tests, security passThe four gates on the build-process page
- Cost ceiling set per feature (per-month token budget) before launchThe honest ceilings conversation happens before, not after the invoice
Score honestly: under half means the AI project is premature, the readiness work IS the project. Most of it is a week of decisions and hygiene. The AI services pages cover the features; the brief starts the readiness audit.
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