AI readiness that survives a buyer’s diligence.

By measuring the workforce rather than interviewing the management team. Management will tell you what they hope is true; a validated instrument tells you what people can actually do, and the gap between the two is usually the finding that matters.

AIVROs runs the same instruments at every company: AI Fluency across everyone, technical depth where the role requires it, culture and climate to establish whether people are permitted to use AI at all, and a value assessment with the people closest to the P&L. Those roll into one readiness index per team, so a portfolio company can be compared to its peers rather than to its own ambition.

The practical difference at portfolio scale is the standard. Five companies each running their own adviser produce five frameworks and no comparison. One instrument set produces a roll-up.

It means a buyer can verify your AI story instead of taking it on trust. AI has become a line in diligence, and the questions are specific: who can actually do this work, what is already in production versus piloted, what did it return, and where is the evidence.

A readiness baseline answers those with measurement rather than narrative. The value plan shows which initiatives were chosen and why the others were queued. The board packs show the figures and cite the data behind them, at the version they were run.

The uncomfortable version of the same point: a claim you cannot evidence does not add to the multiple, and one a buyer disproves in diligence costs more than never making it.

Yes, and that is the case it is built for. A Portfolio program runs the same instruments at every entity with a roll-up across them, so readiness is comparable at the fund level and a laggard is visible without a special exercise.

Delivery is the variable that matters at this scale. Your own team can run it, we can run it for you, or a certified AIVROs partner can run it alongside the company under their own brand, which is usually the right answer when a portfolio company would rather not have the fund in the room.

Sometimes you should, and we say so plainly on the comparison page. A readiness engagement from a strategy firm runs $150,000 to $400,000 and is the right call when the question is genuinely novel or the answer must be underwritten by a named partner.

It is the wrong call when the question recurs. Readiness at entry, at each board cycle and again at exit is the same measurement three times, and an engagement gives you a point-in-time answer that stops being true the moment it is delivered. A standing system re-baselines quarterly at no extra engagement cost.

• AI readiness
• SkilliScore
• AI Opportunity Matrix
• Privacy floor (n ≥ 5)