Independent AI Strategy Health Check
What your organization believes about its AI readiness, what an independent audit finds, and the distance between them.
Zelen measures how ready your organization is for AI across five pillars — strategy, data, security, people, and operating governance — by comparing what you believe about yourself with what an independent audit finds.
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Create your portal account in a minute
Sign yourself up — no invitation required. Your account gives your organization a private space to complete the self-assessment, upload evidence, and read the findings and remediation plan once your consultant releases them.
- Rate all five pillars against a written gold standard, at your own pace.
- Private by default — no other client, and no other organization, can see your data.
- Request a price and track quotes, invoices and payments from the same place.
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Start in your own portal
No invitation needed. You set your own password and only ever see your own organization's assessment.
- Your data is visible only to you and the consultant on your engagement.
- Free to create — you are not committing to an engagement.
About Zelen
An outside view of how ready you really are for AI
Most AI programmes stall because the organization is working from its own estimate of where it stands. Zelen replaces the estimate with a measurement. We use one fixed framework — five pillars, each with a written Level 5 gold standard — so ratings mean the same thing across departments, across years and across organizations.
Your team rates itself first. We then audit the same capabilities independently, with red-flag testing and documentary evidence. Where the two views disagree is where the real risk sits, and that gap drives everything we recommend.
What you receive
- An independent maturity level for each of the five pillars.
- A risk-weighted pillar score and a gap chart of self-rating versus audit.
- A branded PDF report with findings, evidence and a capability table.
- A sequenced remediation plan with owners, due dates and follow-up tracking.
The framework
Five pillars, one gold standard
Data readiness is one of the five. It is the pillar we can measure most directly, so it carries the most evidence — but the finding is about the whole system.
Pillar 1
Business strategy and AI value
Where AI attaches to the business, who owns it, and whether the value is proven.
Pillar 2
Data readiness
Is the data fit for an AI use case to consume?
Pillar 3
AI security and trust
Five domains protecting the data, the models and the people using them.
Pillar 4
People and change
Communication, collaboration and capacity when AI enters the work.
Pillar 5
AI operating governance
How governed the AI already running is, across five process domains.
The engagement
How an assessment runs
- 01
Briefing
A short scoping conversation. You get portal access for your organization; nothing is shared with anyone else.
- 02
Your self-assessment
Your team rates all five pillars from 1 to 5 against written gold standards, with evidence notes.
- 03
Independent audit
We test the same ground ourselves — strategy documents, data red flags, permissions, usage and governance evidence.
- 04
The gap
Both views are charted side by side, pillar by pillar, and scored by risk weight.
- 05
Report & remediation plan
A branded PDF with findings, a capability table and a sequenced set of actions with owners and due dates.
- 06
Follow-up
We track which actions closed and book the re-assessment date, so progress is measured, not asserted.
No account needed
Get a scoped price before you commit
Tell us what you want assessed, your timeline and your budget range. You will get a price for an independent assessment — scope, fee and dates — with no obligation and no sign-up.