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EU AI Act Readiness Map
Organisational readiness by area, with the gaps that matter most.
Preparing for the EU AI Act
Your policies may look ready. Is your organisation actually ready?
Identify operational gaps in AI governance, literacy, oversight, ownership and real employee practices.
EU AI Act Organisational Readiness Assessment
GrundMind provides organisational and operational readiness assessment. It is not a legal certification or legal opinion.
Recognition
This may sound familiar.
“We have an AI policy, but we are not sure anyone reads it.”
“We do not have a reliable picture of where AI is being used.”
“Responsibility for AI oversight is spread across several people, or nobody.”
“AI literacy training happened, but behaviour did not change.”
“Human oversight exists on paper. In practice, output is rarely checked.”
“Legal has reviewed the documents. Nobody has reviewed the organisation.”
What we help you answer
The questions you need answered before you act.
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Do we know where AI is actually being used?
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Are responsibilities clear?
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Are employees sufficiently AI-literate?
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Is human oversight functioning in practice?
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Do policies match real behaviour?
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Where are the organisational gaps?
How the diagnostic works
Your team provides the evidence. We do the heavy lifting.
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Scope
We define the decision you need to make and the teams, workflows or business areas that matter.
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Gather evidence
Employees and managers provide structured input independently through secure online surveys and targeted evidence collection.
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We analyse
GrundMind identifies gaps, contradictions, bottlenecks, readiness issues, perception differences and areas of value leakage.
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You get decisions
Leadership receives a concise, prioritized diagnostic with clear actions and sequencing.
Minimal time from your team. Maximum insight for leadership.
Focused online input from the people involved. No calendar full of workshops.
What we examine
What we look at.
A focused set of dimensions, chosen for the decision in front of you. Not a methodology tour.
AI Use Visibility
Whether leadership can see where and how AI is actually used, including unofficial tools.
AI Literacy
Whether people understand the limits and risks of the AI they use in their own work.
Governance
Whether rules, approvals and monitoring exist and are followed.
Accountability
Whether ownership of AI systems and their outcomes is clear and accepted.
Human Oversight
Whether people can and do intervene, verify and override in practice.
Escalation
Whether concerns and incidents have a clear route and are actually raised.
Policy vs Practice
Where written rules and everyday behaviour diverge.
What you receive
What leadership receives
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Governance Gap Map
Where ownership, oversight and escalation are missing or not functioning.
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Priority Remediation Areas
The operational gaps to close first, and why.
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Organisational Readiness Roadmap
A sequenced plan to bring practice in line with policy.
Business impact
Why this matters
- Reduce compliance risk hidden inside everyday practice
- Focus remediation effort where behaviour actually diverges from policy
- Give legal and compliance teams organisational evidence, not assumptions
- Shorten the path from policy to working oversight
- Avoid duplicated governance effort across teams
Why GrundMind
A different kind of consulting
Research-based, not opinion-based
Our methodology is grounded in the research foundation of the Grund Institute and structured evidence, rather than generic consulting assumptions.
Small, dedicated senior team
A focused group of experienced people works directly on the engagement. No oversized project team and no unnecessary layers.
Minimal time from your team
We are designed to get the evidence we need without filling calendars with workshops.
We do the heavy lifting
We collect, structure, compare, analyse and synthesize the evidence. Your people provide focused input. We do the consulting work.
Multiple perspectives, not averages
We compare employee, manager and workflow perspectives to expose gaps that averages hide.
Decision-ready output
Leadership receives priorities, actions and evidence, not a long slide deck with vague observations.
Evidence before intervention.
Who this is for
Best suited for
- Financial services
- Life sciences
- Technology
- Professional services
- Organizations deploying AI in regulated processes
When to use this diagnostic
When companies typically use this
- When preparing for EU AI Act requirements
- Before an internal or external AI governance review
- After an AI policy has been introduced but not yet tested
- When AI use has grown faster than oversight
The AI journey
This assessment is relevant at every stage of the AI lifecycle, from first investment to scaling agents.
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Next step
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