Awareness Equity Assessment™

Every acquisition looks clean
on a spreadsheet.

New market. New capabilities. New numbers.

But underneath the deal is a system built by people who aren't there anymore, integrated with systems nobody fully documented, held together by workers who learned the nuances over years.

Those workers can't tell leadership what they know. Leadership can't tell customers what they need to know. And customers — protected by terms and conditions written by lawyers — never find out until something goes wrong.

Then AI gets layered on top of all of it.

Faster decisions. Wider reach. Higher stakes.

Same broken information architecture underneath.

That's not a technology problem. It's an old problem. And it's now your most expensive one.

This assessment shows you exactly where your organization loses the information it needs to make AI work.

That gap has a name: Awareness Equity.

It's the principle that the right information must reach the right people — in time to act. When it doesn't, the harm that follows is predictable. And preventable.

This assessment measures exactly where that principle breaks down in your organization.

45Targeted questions
3Framework layers
48hrsReport delivery
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Early access pricing — $97 through June 15, 2026. Price moves to $297 after that.

Early Access pricing ends June 15, 2026: Individual assessment available at $97 until then — standard price is $297. Same assessment. Same report. Only the price changes.

About this assessment

Built from 25 years of observing where organizations lose the information they need.

I didn't build this framework in a classroom.

I built it from twenty-five years of watching the same failure operate across industries — healthcare, financial services, technology, retail, education. Different organizations. Different stakes. Same gap: the people who needed critical information were always the last to receive it.

And I built it from something that happened to me personally. Something that made me understand — in the middle of the night, in a way I couldn't unfeel — what it costs when the right information doesn't reach the right person in time.

That story is in the book.

This assessment is what I built so organizations could measure their gap before someone pays that cost.

Background
25+ years of professional experience across multiple industries · Nearly 6 years in consulting at Cognizant Technology Solutions · Executive AI Advisor to Directors, VPs, SVPs, EVPs, and C-Suite leaders
Framework origin
The 45 questions are drawn directly from the Awareness Equity framework presented in the upcoming book — three trademarked diagnostic tools, ten failure patterns, and case studies across eight industries.
What makes this different
This is not an AI maturity checklist. It is a structural diagnosis of where your organization loses the information it needs to make AI work — starting with the humans your AI is supposed to serve.

Before you buy

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A real AI Action Brief — name anonymized — so you can see exactly the depth and specificity of what you'd receive.

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Pricing

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What you receive

Your AI Action Brief — a personalized diagnostic report written by Vibha

This is not a generated PDF. Based on your 45 answers, Vibha writes a report specific to your responses — delivered within 48 hours of completing the assessment.

01
Your Composite AE Score
Mapped to one of five bands — so you know exactly where your organization stands, not just roughly.
02
Your Dimension Profile
Breakdown across Human Visibility, Information Flow, and Gap Closure — which layer is your strength, which is creating drag.
03
Your Failure Signature
One of six named patterns. Named, explained, and interpreted for your specific score combination — not a generic label.
04
Your Top 3 Priority Gaps
Not a list of everything to fix — the three gaps most likely limiting your AI results right now, ranked by impact.
05
Your 30-Day Action Plan
Three concrete actions tied to your dimension scores and failure signature — not generic recommendations.

What a real report looks like

Sample AI Action Brief — Financial Services executive

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Score summary
40 / 100
Awareness Deficit
Human Visibility 48 · EKI Flow 43 · BRIDGE Closure 20
Failure signature identified
The Governance Theater
"Strategic Visibility scored 100. BRIDGE Closure scored 20. The organization speaks clearly. It has no architecture for acting on what it hears." — exact language from the report.
Top priority gap + first action
Culture & Transparency — 24/100
Specific first action named. 30/60/90-day measurement roadmap with per-question targets included.

12-page report · Delivered within 48 hours of completing the assessment · Written by Vibha based on your specific responses — not generated

Four terms you'll see in your report

EKI Score
Your overall score out of 100. It measures how well critical information reaches the people who need it in your organization — and where it doesn't.
AE Failure Signature
The named pattern your scores reveal. Not a generic label — a specific structural condition your organization is living inside right now. One of six possible signatures.
BRIDGE Protocol™
The framework for closing the gaps your assessment identifies. Your 30-day action plan is built on it. It tells you who owns closing which gap — and how to measure whether it closed.
A.W.A.R.E. Audit™
The diagnostic tool for finding where information breaks down — starting with the people your AI is supposed to serve. The layer no other AI readiness tool measures.
Individual · Standard
AI Readiness Assessment
1 person · one-time
$297
Standard price · access anytime
  • 45 questions across 3 framework layers
  • Three scores: Human Visibility + EKI + BRIDGE Closure
  • Your AE Failure Signature — one of 6 named patterns
  • AI Action Brief — personalized report in 48 hrs
  • Top 3 priority gaps with specific first actions
  • 30-day action plan with EKI baseline
Get the Assessment — $297

After purchase you will receive the assessment link by email. Your AI Action Brief is delivered within 48 hours of completing all 45 questions.

Leadership Team · Standard
Team Assessment — 3 Seats
3 people · one-time · $166/person
$497
Standard price · save $394
Save $394 vs 3 individual assessments
  • 3 individual assessments + individual reports
  • Team Composite Report — consensus vs. divergence map
  • Shared AE Failure Signature for the team
  • Priority gap map across the leadership layer
  • Shared 30-day team action plan
Get Team (3 Seats) — $497

After purchase the coordinator receives 3 individual assessment links. Individual reports in 48 hrs. Composite report within 72 hrs of all responses received.

Executive Team · Standard
Team Assessment — 5 Seats
5 people · one-time · $159/person
$797
Standard price · save $688
Save $688 vs 5 individual assessments
  • 5 individual assessments + individual reports
  • Executive Team Composite Report
  • Individual divergence map — where your team agrees and where they don't, question by question
  • Shared AE Failure Signature for the executive layer
  • Priority gap map across all 5 respondents
  • 90-day team implementation plan
Get Team (5 Seats) — $797

After purchase the coordinator receives 5 individual assessment links. Individual reports in 48 hrs. Composite report within 72 hrs of all responses received.

Three layers.
One complete picture.

Most AI readiness tools assess your systems. This assessment starts with your people — the customers, frontline workers, and communities your AI is supposed to serve.

How scoring works

The five EKI bands

Your composite score maps to one of five bands. Most executives score between 35 and 55 on first assessment — that is a starting point, not a judgment.

85–100Awareness EquityInformation reaches all parties in useful form, on time, with capacity to act. Genuinely rare.
65–84Functional AwarenessMost parties receive useful information most of the time. The achievable first-cycle target for most organizations.
40–64Awareness DeficitCritical information is missing for key parties or isn't enabling action. Most organizations land here on first assessment.
20–39Awareness CrisisInformation is siloed. Most stakeholders lack what they need. Structural design problems, not just process gaps.
0–19Awareness FailureInformation is not being shared or reaches no one in actionable form.
Your report identifies

Your AE Failure Signature

Based on the pattern of your three scores, your report assigns one of six named failure signatures — each describing a specific structural condition your organization is living inside.

The Confident Blind Spot
Systems work but connected to the wrong people. High EKI, low human visibility.
The Frozen Middle
Structural failure across all three layers. An organizational design problem, not a process problem.
The Governance Theater
Policies exist but no one owns closing gaps. Governance as performance, not architecture.
The Execution Gap
People know what they should know but cannot act. Authority doesn't match information.
The Vendor Fog
External systems creating opacity. Vendor tools don't translate for the people using them.
The Aware Leader
Genuinely rare. Strong information architecture across all three layers.
Process

How it works

01
Purchase & receive link
After payment you receive the 45-question assessment link by email within minutes.
02
Complete the assessment
45 questions on a 1–5 scale. Takes 10–12 minutes. Answer based on how things actually work — not how they are supposed to.
03
Receive your AI Action Brief
Your personalized 12-page report arrives within 48 hours of completing the assessment — five sections covering your scores, failure signature, priority gaps, and 30-day action plan.
04
Act on your gaps
Your report includes a 30-day action plan and EKI baseline. Run the EKI again in 30 days to measure progress.
After your assessment

Add a live debrief session

Go deeper on your specific report with Vibha directly. She walks through your scores, names your top priority gap, and gives you one specific next action for your situation. Recorded — yours to keep.

Individual · AI Clarity Call
30-min debrief with Vibha
$297 $697
Limited availability
  • Live review of your personal report with Vibha
  • Your AE Failure Signature interpreted for your context
  • Top priority gap + one specific first action
  • Recorded — yours to keep and share
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Team · Debrief Session
60-min team debrief
$697 $1,497
Limited availability
  • Live group debrief of team composite report
  • Consensus vs. divergence discussion facilitated
  • Team AE Failure Signature named
  • 90-day plan confirmed · recorded
Book Team Debrief — $697 →
Awareness Equity
How the Unequal Distribution of Critical Information Produces Preventable Harm
Vibha Tyagi
AK Books · 2026

The book behind the assessment

Awareness Equity is coming this summer.

The assessment you just took is drawn from the framework in this book — twenty-five years of organizational pattern observation, three trademarked diagnostic tools, and case studies across eight industries.

The book goes deeper than the assessment can. It names the ten failure patterns. It explains what produces them. And it gives you the complete practitioner framework for closing the gaps the assessment identifies.

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