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    DATA READINESS ASSESSMENT

    Know Your Data Readiness And Prioritize What Matters.

    Assess your data and analytics maturity across six dimensions. Identify gaps, understand your AI readiness, and discover where to focus your improvement efforts.

    • 18 questions
    • 10 minutes
    • 6 dimensions
    • Instant readiness level
    Data readiness journey: assess, identify gaps, prioritize, take action
    WHAT IT IS

    What is the Data Readiness Assessment?

    The Data Readiness Assessment evaluates how well your data foundation supports reliable analytics and AI. Answer 18 questions across six dimensions to identify maturity gaps, assess AI readiness, and understand where to focus your improvement efforts first.

    Can we trust our numbers?
    Data quality and lineage scores

    Where completeness, validity and traceability hold up, and where they break.

    Is your data platform fit for purpose?
    Platform fit score

    Scale, cost and fit to target workloads, measured before any re-platform debate.

    Is our data ready for AI use cases?
    AI-readiness read

    Ready now, ready after fixes, or not yet, and the gap to close first.

    What do we fix first?
    Prioritized Improvement Plan

    Sequenced steps built from your two weakest dimensions.

    WHAT IT COVERS

    Which governance domains does it score?

    It scores six domains, three questions each. Four cover the data foundation: policies and ownership, data quality, security and access, and compliance and risk. Two cover what runs on top of it: AI governance and agentic governance. AI and agents can only be governed as well as the data underneath them, so the assessment scores all six together.

    SOURCESQUALITYMODELLINGPLATFORMCONSUMPTIONGOVERNANCE
    01
    Source Landscape

    Assess data sources, integrations, latency, and ownership.

    02
    Data Quality

    Evaluate completeness, validity, consistency, and timeliness.

    03
    Modelling Maturity

    Review data models, semantic layers, and reuse.

    04
    Platform Fit

    Assess scalability, cost, security, and workload fit.

    05
    Consumption Patterns

    Who uses what, how often, and self-service versus IT-built.

    06
    Governance & Operating Model

    Evaluate ownership, lineage, access, standards, and delivery.

    AI readiness is not a seventh box.It is a lens read across all six, because AI fails at the data layer long before it fails at the model.

    Data Readiness Assessment

    Take the Data Readiness Assessment

    18 questions · about 8 minutes

    Your data is only as ready as its weakest area.

    AI is only as good as the data it stands on. Check yours across ownership, quality, platform and context. Your level is limited by your weakest area, so answer honestly.

    InstantYour data readiness level, no form
    With work emailArea scores and a 30-60-90 day plan
    18Questions across ownership, quality, platform and context

    This check scores your data estate as a whole. A Polestar Data Readiness Assessment profiles the actual data behind your priority AI use cases.

    GOING DEEPER

    How does the full assessment score it?

    AI agents gather and analyze evidence across six dimensions. Polestar architects validate findings at every stage before scores are finalized.

    STEP 01
    Mobilise & connect

    Read-only connectors, access plan and interview schedule

    STEP 02
    Scan the estate

    Sources, pipelines and reports inventoried; priority tables profiled

    STEP 03
    Read code & logs

    SQL, ETL, dbt and BW code read; query and BI logs mined

    STEP 04
    Score & find gaps

    Evidence-cited scores, calibrated against the Polestar rubric

    STEP 05
    Options & roadmap

    Target-state options and a costed, sequenced roadmap

    FAQ

    Frequently Asked Questions About Data Readiness

    Still unsure? Talk to our data team.

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    The assessment takes about 10 minutes. It includes 18 questions across six dimensions, with three questions per dimension.

    Yes. You can view your overall readiness level immediately without filling out a form. A work email is required to access the detailed report, including dimension scores, AI-readiness insights, key gaps, and recommended next steps.

    Each answer is scored on a five-point scale. Your responses determine scores across six dimensions, which contribute to your overall maturity level: Ad Hoc, Reactive, Defined, Managed, or Optimized.

    Your responses are scored in your browser and are sent to Polestar Analytics only if you submit the form to receive the detailed report.

    The self-assessment provides an initial view of your data readiness based on your responses. The full assessment uses AI-assisted analysis of data sources, quality, code, and usage patterns, with Polestar architects validating findings. It is available as a rapid 10-day or full four-week engagement.

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