Get AI-ready with our AI-Ready Suite
AI doesn’t fix a shaky foundation. It exposes one.
Four pillars. Eight fixed-scope assessments. One roadmap to an Intelligence-Ready platform.
Introducing Ekco’s AI Readiness Assessments
The AI challenge
Every board wants to know if the organisation is “doing something” about AI. Most conversations skip straight to tools – Copilot, agents, automation – without answering three quieter questions first: is your cloud spend under control, is your data structured well enough to support trustworthy AI outputs, and is your security posture something you could evidence tomorrow if you had to.
AI is only as good as the foundation underneath it. If that foundation is shaky, AI doesn’t fix it – it highlights it.
What the AI-Ready Suite is
Eight fixed-scope assessments, organised into four pillars, each providing answers to the questions above. Each assessment runs in days, not months, and provides you with a clear, actionable roadmap – whether or not you go any further with Ekco afterwards. The Financial Integrity assessment alone could identify up to 30% in wasted cloud spend – often enough to fund the next stage of the roadmap..
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
Pillar 1 – Financial Integrity
Where is your cloud spend leaking, and can it fund your AI-ready roadmap?
Resources sized for initiatives that ended years ago. Inconsistent tagging. Spend nobody’s questioned since it was provisioned. Most of it is invisible until someone goes looking – and it could find and reclaim wasted spend to help fund part of the roadmap.
Assessments within this pillar:
- Azure FinOps & Cost Governance Assessment (3–6 days)
- Infrastructure Modernisation Assessment (4–5 days)
Pillar 2 – Structural Readiness
Is your data estate something that an AI tool – or an auditor – can actually trust?
Ask most organisations if their data is AI-ready and the answer is a confident yes. Ask what’s sitting in the oldest file share, or who still has access to it, and the confidence usually drops. AI doesn’t create that risk. It surfaces it.
Assessments within this pillar:
- M365 Data Readiness Assessment (3–5 days)
- Endpoint Compliance Assessment (2–5 days)
Pillar 3 – Security & Compliance
If a regulator or a board asked for evidence tomorrow, could you produce it?
Most organisations can describe their security posture in general terms. Fewer can produce specific, current evidence of it in the format a regulator, insurer or board actually wants – and that gap, not weak controls, is usually what gets found out first.
Assessments within this pillar:
- M365 Security Baseline Assessment (2–3 days)
- Purview Compliance Assessment (1–2 days)
Pillar 4 – Operational Excellence
Are you actually ready to switch AI on – the groundwork that has to be right before adoption can properly begin?
The risk isn’t a slow rollout. It’s what Copilot surfaces the moment it’s switched on: answers built on stale or duplicated data, and access to information that years of oversharing have left exposed.
Assessments within this pillar:
- M365 Copilot Readiness Assessment (3 days)
- Azure Well-Architected Review (4–10 days)
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
