“AI readiness” isn’t about having the latest tools — it’s about whether your data is structured, accessible, and consistent enough for a model to learn something reliable from it. A business with clean, well-organised sales data is closer to a useful AI application than one with cutting-edge software and messy spreadsheets.
A simple starting test: could a new analyst, given access to your systems, answer “which customers are most valuable” within a day? If not, that’s the gap to close before AI, not after.