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Is Your Business Ready for AI? A 10-Point Checklist

You do not need a data science team to benefit from AI. You do need a few basics in place. Run through this checklist to see where you stand.

By Maddox McGrath, founder of Mythmade · Updated October 2026

The checklist

  • 1. You can name at least one task your team repeats every week.
  • 2. That task follows roughly the same steps each time.
  • 3. The information it needs lives somewhere digital: email, a CRM, spreadsheets or documents.
  • 4. You use software that has modern connections, or can export data.
  • 5. Someone owns the process and can say what “done right” looks like.
  • 6. You know roughly how many hours the task takes each week.
  • 7. Mistakes in the task are fixable, or you are willing to add a review step.
  • 8. Your team is open to trying a new way of working.
  • 9. You are willing to start with one process instead of everything at once.
  • 10. You can give feedback during the first few weeks while the system is tuned.

How to read your score

  • Eight or more: you are ready. Pick the most painful task and start.
  • Five to seven: you are close. The gaps are usually about getting information into one place, which is often step one of the project anyway.
  • Under five: start with AI training for the team and clean up one process first.

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A free 30-minute consult is the fastest way to find out. We will look at your actual workflows and tell you honestly whether AI is worth it yet.

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