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Automation Readiness Scorecard for Mid-Sized Companies

Automation Readiness Scorecard

Is your business ready to automate, or ready to automate its problems?

Fifteen questions across the five areas where automation programs actually stall: data quality, process ownership, governance, maintenance, and financial measurement. Three minutes, straight answers, instant score.

Built from 200+ enterprise automation deployments. No email needed to see your score.

Your result

0 /100

A low score doesn't mean you're failing. It means you're early, and early is the cheapest time to build this right.

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See your score across all five dimensions, what your weakest one typically costs, and which phase of a 90-day alignment plan you'd enter.

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Fifteen questions. Three minutes. An instant score across the five areas where automation programs actually stall in mid-sized companies. Built from more than 200 enterprise automation deployments, not from a vendor's pitch deck.

What the scorecard measures

Most automation assessments ask what tools you want to buy.

This one asks whether your business can support the tools at all.

It scores you on the five dimensions that decide whether automation becomes a margin lever or another IT cost:

  • Data Quality. A bot does exactly what your data tells it, at machine speed, including all the wrong things. We test whether your data could survive automation today.
  • Process Ownership. Automating a process nobody owns just makes a bad process run faster. We test whether your processes are understood end to end, exceptions included.
  • Governance. Speed is nothing without structure. We test whether automation in your company would grow inside guardrails or turn into tool sprawl and shadow IT.
  • Maintenance & TCO. Bots are cheap to build and expensive to keep. We test whether you’re budgeting for the part of automation that actually determines ROI.
  • Financial Measurement. If you can’t articulate what “good” looks like in dollars, there’s no point starting. We test whether your automation decisions connect to your P&L.

What the scorecard means

  • Foundation Stage (0-39). Automation would amplify your current problems. That’s not a failing grade; it means foundation work is the highest-ROI move available to you, and it’s where every successful program started.
  • Pilot-Ready (40-69). You’re ready to automate selectively. The risk isn’t starting; it’s scaling faster than your weakest dimension can support.
  • Scale-Ready (70-100). Your foundations can support a real program. The question is no longer whether to automate, but which portfolio of automations compounds fastest.

 

Each tier maps to a phase of our 90-day automation alignment framework, so your result tells you not just where you stand but where you’d start.

Who Built This?

This scorecard was built by our automation practice lead, who has shipped more than 200 automated solutions across 2,500 locations and 10,000 users, freeing up over $20 million in organizational capacity without eliminating a single job. The questions are the same ones he asks on real engagements, because the things that stall automation programs are remarkably consistent: it’s almost never the bot, and almost always the data, ownership, governance, maintenance, or math around it.

For the full diagnosis, read why automation initiatives stall in mid-sized companies, or start with our approach to intelligent automation strategy.

FAQ

The assessment and your overall score are completely free with no email required. Your email unlocks the full breakdown: your score across all five dimensions, what your weakest dimension typically costs, and which phase of a 90-day alignment plan you'd enter.

Fifteen questions, three per dimension, each scored on the maturity of your answer. Your total is normalized to a score out of 100, and your tier reflects the thresholds we see in real engagements: below 40, foundation work comes first; above 70, your structures can support a scaled program.

If you unlock your full breakdown, your answers are stored with your contact record so that if you book an alignment call, we arrive already knowing where your program stands. We don't sell data, and you can unsubscribe anytime.

Especially then. Several questions score readiness rather than experience, and a low score before you've spent anything is the cheapest possible diagnosis. Foundation-stage companies get the clearest guidance of anyone: what to fix before the first dollar goes to a tool or a vendor.

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