AI Readiness Report · Sample
Meridian Advisory is further along with AI than most 38-person advice firms: your team is already using it daily, which is why your Build score (58) runs well ahead of your Governance score (34). The single most important next action is to get the ungoverned ChatGPT use in advice workflows under a written policy before ASIC's Report 798 expectations and your PI renewal make it expensive to explain.
Meridian Advisory is a Melbourne-based financial planning and operations practice of roughly 38 staff, operating under its own AFSL and serving around 900 client households.[1] Your website and job listings point to a Microsoft 365 environment with Xplan as the advice platform, and a recent adviser job ad lists "confidence with AI drafting tools" as desirable, which usually means the tools arrived before the policy did.[1] Your quiz answers confirm it: staff use AI weekly in client-facing work, no acceptable-use policy exists, and nobody currently owns AI oversight. You selected "Accounting or financial advice" in the quiz, and your public profile matches: we've mapped your obligations to ASIC and the Corporations Act accordingly.
Governance 34 / 100
AI is in your advice workflows but nothing is written down: no acceptable-use policy, no register of tools, no named owner. In a licensed practice this is the score that matters most, because ASIC Report 798 makes clear that licensees remain responsible for AI-assisted advice, and reviews found governance arrangements lagging adoption in over half the licensees studied.[2]
Build 58 / 100
Strong foundations: a modern Microsoft 365 tenant, cloud-hosted advice platform, and a team already comfortable with AI tools. The gap between what your team does ad hoc and what a governed automation could do reliably is small, which makes your first Build cheaper and faster than for most firms your size.
Operations 47 / 100
You have IT support but no monitoring of AI use, no audit trail of what client data enters which tools, and no review cadence. Operations is what keeps the other two scores true next quarter, not just today.
We checked the public anti-spoofing records on meridianadvisory.com.au, the same records an attacker checks before impersonating you. SPF and DKIM are present and healthy. DMARC is published but set to p=none, which means you're observing spoofing attempts but not blocking them. For a firm that emails advice documents and invoice details to 900 households, that's the gap a business-email-compromise crew looks for. The fix is a staged move to p=quarantine then p=reject; it's quick, and it's included in the Sprint's tooling review.
The AI Readiness Sprint (from $4,950 + GST, two weeks). Your Build score says you'll want automations soon, but your Governance score says the foundation has to come first: the Sprint delivers your shadow-AI discovery, a draft acceptable-use policy aligned to ASIC's expectations, the Purview and tooling review, and a one-page board summary. AI governance is then delivered through the Management Dashboard, included with Build & Operate under ongoing support. If you'd rather sanity-check us first, a 15-minute chat costs nothing.
Seven questions, then our AI researches your business and an Evisent engineer reviews every word before it's sent. One report email, then nothing unless you ask.
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