Alpha Audit (or Alpha) is a self-assessment platform designed to evaluate Tech & AI capabilities in different situations.

Alpha guides you through a linear, phase-gated experience, so that you get a structured assessment, in line with your situation.

It features a hybrid tiered reporting model (free executive scorecards versus paid deep-dive action plans), token-gated access magic links, and secure payment processing via Stripe.

Alpha directly leverages years of proven Tech & AI experiences to deliver fast and tangible results.

Alpha supports multiple structured assessment tracks tailored to specific organizational needs:

1. AI Readiness

With Alpha, users can evaluate the AI readiness of an organisation at the business function level — not the organisation as a whole.

This distinction matters. An organisation may be highly ready in some functions and critically unprepared in others.

By anchoring the assessment to specific functions and thus core processes, Alpha delivers targeted, actionable intelligence rather than a superficial organisational score.

2. Transaction (Tx) Preparation

Alpha brings clarity to complex technology decisions, providing the right lens for every stakeholder:

• Buy-side: Uncover hidden technical debt, operational risks, and growth bottlenecks before closing the deal.
• CxO/Management: Gain clarity on system health, team capability, and investment priorities with objective analysis.
• Sell-side: Identify and remediate critical risks early to protect your valuation and accelerate deal closure.

By adopting your perspective, Alpha ensures the evaluation addresses your exact operational realities.

Depending on the track, the audit experience follows a structured, phase-gated journey:

Main Phase	Description
START	Select the Business Function where you're considering AI, or jumpstart the assessment for a transaction.
DISCOVERY	(AI Readiness only) Evaluate operational friction points across the selected function's processes.
WORKFORCE	Indicate critical roles involved (i.e. Business roles and/or Tech & Data roles), and evaluate their scale (in Full-Time Employees).
READINESS	Score the target organisation across structured maturity pillars.
COMPLETION	Submit your contact details alongside consent.
REPORTING	Access your results online. Paid users can unlock the complete report, the proposed action plan and PDF download.

Alpha relies on your inputs and shapes how your diagnostic is interpreted. It serves as an initial baseline to make well-informed decisions.

Alpha assessment approach relies primarly on your qualitative inputs.
The honesty and ability to prove and support an evaluation is thus key to get relevant insights.

Whatever assessment you select, the resulting scores are inputs intending to help make investment decisions, and to design and prioritize a pragmatic scope of work.

1. AI Readiness

Alpha helps you identifying where manual friction bottlenecks intersect with AI adoption potential. It combines multiple areas to propose areas where AI investment could create value.

• Process Frictions: evaluate structural inefficiencies, manual bottlenecks, and data quality gaps that AI could address.
• Readiness Pillars: measure the organization across core readiness dimensions (such as strategy, data maturity, infrastructure, talent, and governance) on a 1–5 maturity scale.

2. Transaction Preparation

Alpha helps you evaluating technology and data maturity across a standard Tech Due Diligence Q&A framework.

• Tech Pillars: questions are grouped under typical pillars to provide granular context (i.e., architecture, data quality, security posture, team capability, technical debt).
• Granular Scale Definition: each question includes a 5-point maturity scale ranging from unmanaged to optimized.
• Evidence & Proof Guidance: questions also feature explicit proof/artifact guidelines required to achieve higher maturity ratings (Level 4+).

Alpha thus works for any stakeholder requiring a view on Technology as part of an investment or exit decision : Buy-side, CxO / Management, Sell-side.

Process definitions across all AI Readiness assessments are aligned with the APQC Process Classification Framework® (PCF) version 8.0 — the globally recognised open standard for business process taxonomy.

This ensures that the scope of every assessment is consistent, comparable, and industry-agnostic. When you select a business function (e.g. Innovation to Market, Human Capital), the processes in scope are drawn directly from the relevant category — giving you a rigorous, standardised baseline for your diagnostic.

As a starting point, we have rigorously selected and crafted the assessment for a set of cross-industry functions:

1. Vision & Strategy — foundational architecture of an organization, includes the rigorous definition of core purpose, long-term objectives, and the high-level roadmap required to navigate market complexities.
2. Innovation to Market — encompasses the end-to-end lifecycle of an offering, moving from strategic concept and design through to market launch and eventual retirement.
3. Marketing & Sales — the end-to-end organizational processes designed to identify customer needs, develop value propositions, and convert market interest into sustainable revenue.
4. Sourcing & Procurement — the strategic engine that orchestrates an organization’s external value chain, directly influencing both bottom-line profitability and top-line resilience through the meticulous management of supplier ecosystems and resource lifecycles.
5. Service Value Realization — the end-to-end lifecycle of service execution, encompassing everything from resource planning and scheduling to the actual point of service and post-delivery follow-up.
6. Customer Service — the end-to-end orchestration of activities required to manage customer inquiries, service requests, and complaints throughout the post-purchase lifecycle.
7. Technology Backbone — the end-to-end lifecycle of digital assets, covering everything from enterprise architecture and application development to cybersecurity and data management.
8. Human Capital — the end-to-end lifecycle of an organization’s most critical asset: its people.
9. Finance & Accounting — the enterprise’s strategic nervous system, integrating the systematic governance of capital with the rigorous reporting of financial performance to ensure long-term institutional viability.
10. Asset Intelligence — the end-to-end lifecycle management of an organization’s physical and capital infrastructure.
11. Risk & Resilience — the enterprise’s integrated framework for identifying, assessing, and mitigating threats while ensuring strict adherence to regulatory mandates and internal standards.
12. Corporate Diplomacy — the strategic orchestration of an organization’s interactions with stakeholders outside its immediate value chain, including regulators, government bodies, local communities, and the media.
13. Strategic Enablement — the architectural blueprint of an organization, defining the collective set of skills, processes, and technologies required to execute strategy and deliver customer value.

These processes are enhanced with idbokx research for deeper and off-the-shelf insights in terms of stakeholders, key performance indicators, sample supporting technologies; those are available in another idbokx asset.

The final assessment report delivered by Alpha contains:

• Scoring Scale: pillar and overall scores, computed natively on a standard 1.0–5.0 maturity scale.
• Hybrid Tiered Reporting:
  1. Free-Tier, instant Executive summary.
  2. Paid-Tier, pillar breakdown, recommended action plan, PDF download and an optional expert review - available.

PDF Reports are generated immediately on completion, rendered in-browser and can be downloaded.

The assessment report is stored 12-months upon purchase, and secured behind a purchase token.

A human expert review delivered by an idbokx consultant is available either via a Bundle, or via an Expert Review.

Building directly on your diagnostic data, this is a private work session which occurs via a Microsoft Teams meeting.

The Expert Review can be booked at a convenient time. Considering the availability constraints, it is highly recommended to book the review call as soon as possible.

This 90-minutes session provides:

• Situation overview and stakeholder mapping
• Taxonomy alignment and diagnostic interpretation
• Re-scored readiness assessment with consultant commentary, if required
• Prioritised action plan with enabler notes
• Risk flags and implementation considerations

The Expert Review delivers as an additional structured written document accessible via a private link, within 1 to 3 business days following the work session.