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From AI curiosity to AI that earns its keep.

ARIA™ — our AI Readiness & Intelligence Architecture — is the product that carries our AI practice. It assesses the six capabilities every organisation must build to win with AI: transformation roadmap, talent bench, operating model, distributed technology, embedded data and adoption at scale. Five weighted pillars. Thirty sub-dimensions. Board-ready output. Completely honest scoring — no flattery, no comfort padding.

The numbers that matter

20%+
EBITDA uplift from AI transformations done right
McKinsey Rewired (2nd ed.) — if you're not hitting this, the roadmap is not ambitious enough.
2–6×
TSR advantage: AI leaders over laggards
Across every sector in McKinsey's 1,000+ company study — and the gap is compounding.
74%
Of financial institutions have active AI initiatives
Fewer than 1 in 4 can connect any of them to measurable revenue or cost reduction.
60%
Jump in the AI maturity gap since 2019
The spread is structural and compounding — the window to catch up narrows every year.

ASSESS → DIAGNOSE → PRIORITIZE → ROADMAP → GOVERN

Five steps, run sequentially or in parallel depending on urgency. Each produces a board-ready artefact — not a shelf-ware deck.

ASSESS

30 sub-dimensions. Your ARIA™ Index score. Completely honest. No flattery, no comfort padding.

DIAGNOSE

Find the real constraint — not the symptom that everyone in the room already talks about.

PRIORITIZE

High-value use cases mapped to your actual gaps, capabilities and appetite for change.

ROADMAP

90-day to 3-year path. Board-ready. Built to execute, not admire from a shelf.

GOVERN

Regulatory alignment. AI council. Ethics charter. Real accountability with named owners.

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Curious what your ARIA™ score would be?

A structured, honest starting point — with a 90-day plan you can actually execute. Ask Shefali about running the diagnostic for your organisation.

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