AI READINESS STARTS WITH YOUR PEOPLE
AI creates the opportunity. Your people turn it into value.
AI ORA™ is an independent, survey-based assessment of your organisation’s AI readiness. It shows you where you stand before introducing AI, and measures how it's been experienced and executed once AI is in use.
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Developed in partnership with Best Places to Work™ New Zealand.
The partnership builds on 25 years of workplace measurement: employee sentiment, organisational alignment and performance at scale.
The readiness gap
93% of AI investment goes into the technology. The people who turn it into value get the remaining 7%.
AI presents an opportunity most organisations have never had, alongside challenges they have never had to manage. Leaders set the direction. Managers translate it into day-to-day practice. Employees experience how AI is introduced and whether they feel confident, supported and ready to use it. When those perspectives are not aligned, adoption slows and AI becomes harder to turn into value.
93%
of AI investment goes to technology, and only 7% to the people expected to use it.
Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends, 2026
Only 5%
of companies are achieving real value from AI at scale.
BCG, The Widening AI Value Gap, 2025
Only 7%
of global organisations say they're good at designing how people and AI work together. New Zealand, 2%.
Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends, 2026
Understanding your Organisation's AI Readiness
A clear view of how ready your people and organisation are for AI.
AI ORA™ provides independent evidence before formal AI plans are in place, and after AI is already being used. It shows where readiness is strong, what could hold progress back, and where to focus next.
Before AI is formally introduced
AI ORA™ People Readiness
For organisations preparing for AI or still deciding where to begin.
Understand employee sentiment, current AI use, capability, concerns, priority use cases and the support people will need.
After AI has been introduced
AI ORA™ Organisational Readiness
For organisations where AI is already being introduced or used.
Compare leadership, manager and employee perspectives to understand how your direction is landing and where gaps could slow execution.
Three perspectives. One clear view.
AI ORA™ captures how leaders, managers and employees see your organisation's readiness for AI. Together, their perspectives show where there is alignment, where expectations or support differ, and what to prioritise next.
Leadership view
Leadership alignment on priorities, opportunities, risks and readiness to act.
Manager readiness
Confidence and capacity to support their teams through change.
Employee experience
Sentiment, capability, current AI use, how AI is experienced day to day, and the support people need.
Both assessments bring these perspectives together through a confidential survey across your organisation, giving you independent findings and a prioritised 90-day action plan.
What industry leaders say
The hardest part of AI isn't the models or the software. It's helping people rethink work, leadership and decision-making in a world where humans and intelligent systems will increasingly work side by side. Every AI project eventually becomes a people project, so it just makes the most sense to start there.
Peter Carr
Director and Principal Analyst, Councilio
Australia
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