Company Brain Playbook · Readiness check
Are you ready to build a Company Brain?
Score these ten checks before you buy tools, start another AI pilot, or ask a team to document everything. The goal is not a perfect score. It is knowing whether to start with the playbook, the kit, an audit, or a done-for-you sprint.
How to use it
Count one point for every honest yes.
If an answer is “sort of”, score it as no. The gaps are the work.
- 01
We can name one team where AI would save visible time if it had better company context.
- 02
That team already uses AI tools, even if the work is inconsistent or power-user dependent.
- 03
People repeatedly paste or explain the same business context to Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor, or internal assistants.
- 04
Our last 10 important decisions are written down with reasoning, not just buried in meetings or Slack.
- 05
We know which docs, meetings, tickets, repos, dashboards, or systems contain the source material for our first brain documents.
- 06
We can say what should stay out of the Company Brain: personal data, sensitive legal/security material, live customer records, or anything unreviewed.
- 07
Someone can own context quality after the first install — approving updates, checking freshness, and saying what agents are allowed to trust.
- 08
We have at least three recurring use cases where better context would change real work: meeting prep, decision lookup, PRDs, support answers, handovers, weekly reviews, or similar.
- 09
The pilot team can test the brain inside normal work within 30 days, not just in a demo.
- 10
Leadership cares about AI results your company can measure, not just individual prompting or licence adoption.
What your score means
Pick the next step that matches your company, not the ambition.
0–3 yeses
Start with the free playbook and one decision record.
Your company is probably too early for a paid build. Use the playbook to write one strong decision record, map one team, and make the missing context visible before buying anything.
Get the free playbook →4–6 yeses
The kit is probably the right first move.
You have enough raw material and an internal owner to start. The Company Brain Kit gives you the repo structure, templates, worked examples, install skill, curation runbooks, and MCP/access spec so you can build the first version yourself.
See the £299 kit →7–8 yeses
Book the AI-Readiness Audit if the route still feels unclear.
You likely have a real opportunity, but your company-level choices matter: which team first, what source systems count, what never gets ingested, who owns review, and which use cases prove payback. The audit turns that into a 30/60/90-day plan.
See the audit →9–10 yeses
You may be ready for the Company Brain Sprint.
If there is a clear sponsor, a pilot team, accessible source material, and urgency to make AI useful at company level, the sprint builds the first usable Company Brain with your team in 30 days.
Explore the sprint →When the score is mixed
A high score does not always mean “go straight to the sprint”.
Sometimes the right next step is a kit, sometimes it is a diagnostic, and sometimes it is a facilitated build with your team. Book a short call if any of these are true:
- ✓You scored high, but no executive can sponsor the work yet.
- ✓You know the first team, but not what belongs in the brain versus live source systems.
- ✓A motivated operator exists, but they need help aligning your team around the first build.
- ✓Security, permissions, or sensitive-data boundaries are the main thing slowing you down.