AI readiness assessment in Austin: find out what is ready before you fund the project.
I'm Yiannis Papastergiou, an independent AI consultant based in Thessaloniki, Greece. I assess whether Austin companies with roughly $1M+ in revenue are ready for a specific AI decision, and give you a verdict you can act on. The work is remote. I have no Austin office, team or local clients, and I'd rather say so up front. Start with a free 3–5 minute conversation about your company.
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What does an AI readiness assessment in Austin tell a company?
An AI readiness assessment in Austin tests whether your data, people, process and governance can support a specific AI decision, then gives you a score and a go, not yet or no verdict. I run it remotely from Greece: each person you choose spends 10–15 minutes in an interview, and you receive a written plan and a recorded walkthrough.
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The short answer
What does an AI readiness assessment actually test?
The assessment scores readiness across four dimensions and ends in a verdict on a decision you name, such as whether to automate customer quoting or deploy an assistant. Here is what each dimension asks.
Where the information the AI would need actually lives, whether it is clean and current, and who is allowed to see it. A quoting assistant is only as good as the price list behind it.
Data
Who uses it, who owns it, and who is already using AI on a personal account with company information. Those who do the work are asked, not just the people who manage it.
People
Whether the job is written down, repeatable and countable today. Automating a broken process only makes the mess faster.
Process
What AI may and may not be used for, which systems exist, and who approves what leaves the building. This is where Texas law enters, below.
Governance
The verdict is go, not yet or no. Sometimes the honest answer is that the answer is not AI.
What gets tested
Which Texas rules does an AI readiness assessment check?
The Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (HB 149) was signed on 22 June 2025 and took effect on 1 January 2026. It covers anyone doing business in Texas that develops or deploys an AI system. Its core is a list of banned purposes, judged by intent, enforced only by the Texas Attorney General after a 60-day window to fix a violation (Baker Botts, July 2025).
The same summary points to two readiness items. First, it recommends starting with an inventory of the AI systems you develop or deploy. Second, it describes companion healthcare rules: providers must disclose AI use in treatment, review AI-generated medical records, and observe restrictions on physical offshoring of electronic medical records.
That last point matters for me, because I work from Greece.
If your data includes Texas medical records, whether they may be handled from outside the United States is a question for your counsel, and it should be answered before any such records are shared with me. For everything else, the governance dimension produces the inventory: every AI system in use, what it is for, how it was tested and who approves its output. This is not legal advice, and your counsel decides what applies to you.
What applies here
Online quiz, internal review or a consultant-led AI readiness assessment: which fits an Austin company?
Route
Fits when
Watch for
The free AI Growth GPS is the quick first signal. It takes 3–5 minutes, and I do not charge for it.
Online quiz
You want a quick first signal
A generic score with no decision attached
Internal review
You have someone with time and authority
People rate their own function kindly
Consultant-led (me)
One decision, one verdict, independent eyes
Nobody on site; interviews are remote
Three ways an Austin founder usually weighs. None is wrong for every company.
Your options
What do you hold when the AI readiness assessment is finished?
Across data, people, process and governance, set against the decision you named.
A readiness score
Go, not yet or no, with the reason written down.
A verdict
The priority, today's number, the target, the owner and what gets built.
A one-page 90-day plan
Support may think the problem is volume while sales thinks it is unclear delivery dates. You see both.
A map of where your people see it differently
So you can see whether the gaps closed.
One free re-score at day 90
It starts from €1,500, with a seven-day refund if it wasn't worth it.
The deliverable
How does a remote AI readiness assessment work for an Austin company?
Delivery is remote, from Thessaloniki. I have no Austin office, no local team and no Austin client reference. You choose who answers, usually one or two people per function, and say go. Each gets a link and does a 10–15 minute interview with my AI, typing or speaking, on their own time. You add three to five rough numbers.
24timezones lists Austin as 8 hours behind Athens, so a 9 a.m. Central meeting is 5 p.m. for me. The interviews do not depend on that: they are done on each person's own time. We meet once, for a 20-minute call that agrees the plan.
How it works
Who would assess your company's AI readiness?
I have no Austin clients to point to, and I won't invent any. Here is the work behind the way I assess.
As Product Owner at Natech I led its anti-money-laundering software from desktop to a modern web platform. It is now the company's market spearhead.
Regulated fintech
At Companies House, the UK's official business registry, I worked on the systems behind millions of searches and filings every year. At KLA I built and hardened production software for the modules that control chip fabrication.
Things that must not break
At ARAG UK, a 500-person legal insurance business, I started as the sole developer and became technical lead.
A 500-person business, one developer
For Bronzed Studio I automated the Instagram booking flow, and the owner got back at least 10 hours a week.
A small example
None of that proves how ready your business is. The free AI Growth GPS lets you test my thinking on your own company first.
Who would assess your company
Where does the AI readiness assessment fit, and what comes after?
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In the AI P.R.O. Method (Discover, Plan, Run, Own), the assessment is part of Plan. AI governance and EU AI Act compliance can be added at any step.
Where AI is used today and whether your data and processes can support more. Plan starts from €1,500.
AI Readiness Assessment
What is worth doing, in order, with one priority, one owner and one number.
AI Strategy & Roadmap
Plan: decide what to build first
A system that does one job, with clear limits on what it may and may not do.
AI Agents & Custom AI Solutions
Repetitive workflows automated and measured in hours back each week.
Automation
Senior AI ownership, monthly, stop any time.
Fractional Chief AI Officer
Your leaders and team learn to run it themselves.
AI Training & Executive Workshops
Written rules for what AI may and may not do in your company. Added at any step.
AI Governance & EU AI Act Compliance
Run and Own: build it, then keep it running
Not the place to start if you have already decided what to build and only want it built. I'd rather tell you that now.
What comes next
What happens after you click?
Each step leaves you with something you keep, and you can stop after any of them. Everything built stays yours.
your biggest growth constraint, named, and a 7-day plan on screen
Step 1
Discover, free: the AI Growth GPS. You answer questions about your company for 3–5 minutes.
a readiness score, a verdict (go, not yet or no) and a one-page 90-day plan. Seven-day refund
Step 2
Plan, from €1,500, which includes the readiness assessment. Each person you choose does a 10–15 minute interview with my AI. I write the plan, then take you through it on a single 20-minute call.
a working system, the number it moved and a recorded walkthrough. The last payment waits until the number is met
Step 3
Run. One build and one agreed number. Six weeks to build, with a 3-minute video from me every week, then 90 days to prove it.
a named owner, a scoreboard and the rules for using AI safely
Step 4
Own. Monthly, until your team runs it without me.
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Questions Austin companies ask about an AI readiness assessment
Plan, which includes the readiness assessment, starts from €1,500, with a seven-day refund. Anything built afterwards is part of Run: one fixed investment, quoted in your Plan before work starts, with the final payment invoiced only when the agreed number is met. I publish no fee list.
What is the investment for an AI readiness assessment in Austin?
People use the words loosely. An audit usually looks back at what AI you already use. A readiness assessment looks forward: it asks whether your data, people, process and governance can support a decision you name, and ends in a go, not yet or no. Mine includes the inventory of what is in use.
What is the difference between an AI audit and an AI readiness assessment?
Not necessarily. Daily use by individuals tells you people find AI useful. Readiness asks whether it sits inside a process with an owner and a number. The assessment finds the gap, and sometimes finds you are further along than you thought.
Does using AI every day mean we are ready?
No. I work from Thessaloniki, Greece, and everything is remote: interviews, shared documents, a recorded walkthrough and one 20-minute call. There are no Austin clients to cite and I make no claim to a local presence. If you need someone in your office, I am the wrong choice.
Do you have an office or a team in Austin?
It applies to anyone doing business in Texas that develops or deploys an AI system, and it took effect on 1 January 2026. It is built around banned purposes judged by intent, and only the Texas Attorney General enforces it. The governance part of the assessment lists your systems. Your counsel decides what applies.
Does the Texas AI law apply to my company?
Yes, with a limit. A law-firm summary of the Texas rules mentions restrictions on physical offshoring of electronic medical records. I work from Greece, so please do not share such records with me until your counsel has confirmed what the rules require. The assessment runs on interviews and rough numbers, so it does not need them.
We handle patient or medical records. Can you assess us?
Each person you choose spends 10–15 minutes on an interview, on their own time. You add three to five rough numbers, and you join one 20-minute call. There is no team meeting and no workshop.
How much of my team's time does it take?
Then you have saved the build. Plan decides what to build, and it does not say yes to AI by default. If the verdict is not yet, the plan says what has to change first, and the day-90 re-score shows whether it did.
What if the verdict is no?
Not the way I work. The aim is the same team, with hours of repetitive work taken off them every week, measured in hours saved.
Will AI replace people in my company?
None published with an Austin company. One small example: I automated the Instagram booking flow for Bronzed Studio, and the owner got back at least 10 hours a week. Behind it are 15+ years building software that has to keep working, at KLA, Companies House, ARAG UK and Natech.
What results have you delivered?
Questions
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