The method
Direction · Delivery · Discipline
Alignment is the product of three questions every owner can ask today, broken into six principles. The assessment turns each principle into a clear verdict on where you stand. Built from a benchmark of how 29 enterprises answered the ten hardest AI adoption challenges — translated for businesses your size.
Direction
Are you aiming at the right thing?
Own the Number
Every AI use case ties to one metric — hours saved or revenue — with one named human owner. Not a working group.
Aim at Growth
Invest where revenue and customers live — sales and customer experience — not only cost-cutting.
Delivery
Who actually makes it work?
Empower the Edge
Frontline staff build simple workflows with no-/low-code tools — the Power Platform, if you’re on Microsoft 365 — under light IT supervision. Lack of legacy systems is the SMB advantage.
Lead from Both Ends
Owner conviction from the top, trained staff from the bottom. An SMB can reach 100% AI training quickly and cheaply. Mandates without enablement backfire.
Discipline
What keeps it from hurting you?
Write the Rules Down
A one-page AI policy — approved tools and data rules — is the cheapest, highest-impact control against shadow AI, the #1 SMB risk.
Hold the Last Word
Human review on customer-facing output, evaluation before scaling, and the ability — and will — to shut off what underperforms.
The verdict
Where you'll stand
The assessment tells you whether to scale, fix, or stop — with a per-principle breakdown and the specific moves that follow. You get the verdict directly.
See where you stand.
The AI Alignment Assessment assesses your business on what is evidenced — not what is claimed.
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