Accelerating AI Adoption: Assessment & Maturity Model
ojas.design led the end-to-end delivery of a strategic programme to help a major international consultancy design and launch a market-ready AI Assessment Service and AI Maturity Model. The engagement involved cross-functional collaboration to develop a scalable framework aligned with emerging global AI regulations (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST), enabling client organisations to assess AI readiness, accelerate responsible adoption, and mitigate operational and regulatory risks. The outcome: a flagship service offering now used across multiple industries to guide AI transformation with confidence and clarity.
Empowering Responsible AI: How ojas.design Helped a Major Consultancy Deliver a Market-Leading AI Assessment Service
With the global acceleration of Artificial Intelligence adoption, large enterprises are urgently seeking structured, compliant, and scalable ways to assess their readiness and manage associated risks.
Recognising this demand, a leading international consultancy partnered with ojas.design to manage a strategic programme of work to develop a robust AI Assessment Service and a comprehensive AI Maturity Model. The aim: to provide clients with a practical, future-proof framework aligned with emerging regulatory expectations while accelerating safe and responsible AI adoption.
Our team worked across business, legal, technology, and ethics functions within the consultancy to ensure the service offering would not only meet today’s market demands but also anticipate regulatory and reputational risks associated with AI.
Building the Foundations: AI Maturity Model
Central to the new service offering is the AI Maturity Model, which ojas.design co-developed to serve as both a diagnostic tool and transformation roadmap. The model assesses an organisation’s capabilities across five key dimensions:
Strategic Alignment: Clarity of AI ambition and its integration with business goals and values.
Data & Infrastructure: Maturity of data governance, provenance, and systems integration.
People & Culture: AI literacy, capability development, and cross-functional readiness.
AI Operations: Lifecycle maturity, responsible deployment, explainability, and scalability.
Compliance & Risk: Alignment with global AI standards (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST, ISO/IEC), governance controls, and auditability.
Each domain includes structured criteria for scoring current maturity and identifying practical, organisation-specific next steps.
Accelerating Adoption and Reducing Risk
Through our collaboration, the consultancy was able to bring to market a full-service AI Assessment offering—positioned to help clients:
Accelerate responsible AI deployment by identifying and addressing internal capability gaps early.
Align with evolving global regulations, mitigating legal and reputational risk.
Strengthen stakeholder trust through transparent, auditable AI governance practices.
Guide strategic investment in the right data, platforms, and talent at the right time.
This programme has already supported successful pilot engagements across multiple sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing, with measurable impacts on AI programme velocity and stakeholder confidence.
A Repeatable Framework for a Transforming World
For ojas.design, this engagement exemplifies our strength in co-creating scalable, compliance-aware service innovations with partners who influence global markets. The resulting AI Assessment Service is now a flagship offering in the consultancy’s digital trust portfolio—helping their clients adopt AI not just faster, but smarter.
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