What this is
Your organization already has an AI story. Someone's using it well. Someone's using it dangerously. And someone, probably someone important, has quietly decided the whole thing is someone else's problem. The Signal Audit is how you find out which of these is actually true before it costs you.
This is not a technology assessment. We are not auditing your stack. We are auditing your organizational conditions: what people believe, what they fear, what they're already doing, and what your leadership team actually agrees on. The technology picture follows from that. The reverse rarely works.
The gap between AI access and AI performance is a people problem. Almost every company we talk to has the access. Almost none have addressed the problem.
What happens
Leadership intake
We start with the people making decisions, not to confirm their assumptions, but to surface the ones they don't know they're making. 3–5 structured conversations with your leadership team.
Team-level listening
We go into the organization: developers, product managers, operations, whoever AI is already touching. What are people actually doing? What do they wish they could do? What are they afraid to say to their managers?
Current-state mapping
An honest picture of where AI is happening in your organization today, sanctioned and unsanctioned. Where the capability exists. Where the anxiety lives. Where leadership and teams are misaligned.
Findings and readiness brief
A written report and a working session with your leadership team. Not a slide deck of platitudes. A frank accounting of what we found, what it means, and what the highest-leverage next step is, for your organization specifically.
What you walk away with
A clear, honest picture of your organization's actual AI readiness, not the story you've been telling yourselves. Specific friction patterns identified and prioritized. A shared leadership vocabulary for talking about AI without talking past each other. And a recommended path forward that fits your organization, not a template.
Who this is for
CEOs and founders at small-to-mid-sized businesses who have started using AI, or know they need to, and are honest enough to admit they don't yet have a coherent plan. Especially right for organizations where the technology is moving faster than the culture, or where leadership isn't aligned on what AI adoption actually means for them.
2–3 weeks
20–150 people
Software-forward preferred