Understand whether your data is actually ready for AI
Build a data estate AI, and your auditor, can trust.
What AI actually finds when you point it at your data
Ask most organisations if their data is AI-ready and the answer is a confident yes. Ask what’s actually sitting in the oldest file share, or who still has access to a SharePoint site nobody’s used in years, and the confidence usually drops.
AI tools don’t create that risk, they surface it, by searching across everything at once.
The assessments
M365 Data Readiness Assessment
Evaluate your data estate against M365 readiness requirements. Identify what is fit to migrate or refactor, what should be archived, and what is blocking AI adoption. Collaboratively define the business’s future information architecture, including content structure and data governance policy.
Duration: 3–5 days
Endpoint Compliance Assessment
A strategic evaluation of your end-user device estate and Intune deployment. Assesses endpoint policy and compliance and delivers a remediation roadmap for modernised workforce management.
Duration: 2–5 days
The four pillars
- Pillar 1: Financial Integrity – find and reclaim wasted spend.
- Pillar 2: Structural Readiness – build a data estate AI (and your auditor) can trust.
- Pillar 3: Security & Compliance – harden identity and prove your compliance position.
- Pillar 4: Operational Excellence – align to best practice and get ready for Copilot
Find out more in our upcoming webinar series
For Financial Services
This is where Consumer Duty’s scrutiny of client outcomes meets data governance directly, an AI tool acting on ungoverned client data is a regulatory conversation waiting to happen.
For Professional Services
The buying question in most firms isn’t “can this draft documents faster”, it’s “is this safe for client data.” This pillar answers that question before Copilot is even switched on.
For Not-for-Profit organisations
For organisations holding beneficiary data, ungoverned AI access isn’t a governance nicety, it’s a safeguarding risk. Foundations first isn’t caution for its own sake here; it’s the only responsible sequence.
But is it relevant to you?
“We’re not doing AI yet, so why assess the data now?”
The clean-up pays for itself before AI even enters the picture, lower storage costs, governed access and permissions, better search. And when Copilot or agents do arrive, the groundwork is already done rather than a remediation project starting from scratch.
“We already manage our devices with Intune.”
Having Intune and having it configured well are different things. Most organisations discover stale policies and compliance gaps they didn’t know existed once someone actually audits the setup against best practice.
Join the webinar
Webinar 2: Structural Readiness – 30 minutes, live with recording on demand. Wednesday 12 August @ 11am.
What “AI-ready data” actually means, and how far off most estates are.
What’s next?
Structural Readiness comes second because most organisations need to know what they’re pointing an AI tool at before they can prove it’s under control, but the pillars don’t have to run in this order. Pick the one that matches your own challenges and start there.
If you’re following the roadmap in sequence, Pillar 3 asks the next question: could you produce security and compliance evidence tomorrow if someone asked?
Before you buy any AI tool, audit what you’re already paying for
Most organisations, asked directly, will say their data is reasonably well organised. Ask a more specific question, what’s sitting in the oldest file share, who still has standing access to a site nobody’s touched in two years, and the confidence drops fast..
Colin Riddle, our Chief Product Officer, has written an article on why that gap matters more once an AI tool starts searching across it.
Join any, or all, of our four short webinars.
Four 30-minute sessions, one per pillar, live weekly from Wednesday 5th August. Each covers the problem, what “good” looks like, and what the relevant assessment actually involves – no pitch deck marathon. Register once and choose the sessions that matter to you.
What you’ll learn in each webinar:
- Pillar 1: Financial Integrity – where cloud spend leaks typically occur, and how Ekco can help
- Pillar 2: Structural Readiness – what “AI-ready data” actually means, and how far off most estates are
- Pillar 3: Security & Compliance – what “good” security and compliance looks like in the context of AI
- Pillar 4: Operational Excellence – what has to be true before you switch Copilot on
Register for the AI-Ready Webinar Series
Available to watch live or view on demand afterwards:
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- Pillar 1: Financial Integrity – Weds 5 Aug @ 11am
- Pillar 2: Structural Readiness – Weds 12 Aug @ 11am
- Pillar 3: Security & Compliance – Weds 19 Aug @ 11am
- Pillar 4: Operational Excellence – Weds 26 Aug @ 11am
