Free AI Readiness Checklist for IT Managers 2026

Use this checklist to evaluate infrastructure, data quality, governance, and operations readiness before scaling AI initiatives.

Readiness checklist

• Clear business outcome and success metrics
• Quality data pipelines and cataloged datasets
• Security, access control, and compliance coverage
• Observability, logging, and incident response for AI systems
• Deployment, rollback, and change management for models