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AI Platform Readiness

You have an AI mandate. Your platform team isn't able to support it.

Duration
Assessment 2 wks · Full 4–6 wks
You leave with
Sequenced AI readiness roadmap
Investment
Value-based
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01 · Why this exists

Rolling out AI tooling onto an inconsistent platform makes the gaps permanent and amplifies your existing problems, making it more expensive than today.

Rolling out AI tooling onto an inconsistent platform makes the gaps permanent and amplifies your existing problems, making it more expensive than today.

Format

We start with an honest assessment of where your platform actually stands against what AI delivery requires: infrastructure, developer workflows, observability, reliability. We identify the highest-priority gaps. A focused workshop then produces a sequenced roadmap your team can act on immediately.

02 · What we cover

Six readiness dimensions

01
Infrastructure
02
Developer workflows
03
Observability
04
Reliability
05
Golden paths
06
Governance
03 · What you leave with

The outcome

Output you can take directly into your CTO conversation to secure the investment to move. The longer gaps go unaddressed, the more permanent they become.

04 · Who this is for

Fit

CTOs and engineering leaders with an AI mandate who need to understand what their platform can and cannot support before committing to an AI delivery programme. Also platform leads being asked to enable AI tooling who need external validation to make the case for what has to change first. AI mandates have deadlines.

05 · Who leads this engagement

Engagement led by

Ajay Chankramath

Ajay Chankramath

CTO · Platform Engineering Advisory
  • Co-author Effective Platform Engineering (Manning), author of Platform Engineer's Handbook (Packt)
  • ~4 decades as engineer, architect, and engineering leader
  • 8+ years advising Fortune 500 engineering leadership
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06 · What often comes next

Common follow-ons

Ready?

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Same practitioner on the call as in the engagement. No hand-off.