1Open now
Assess
Take the AI Readiness Assessment with your team. Fifteen minutes each. Every person gets a personal report with recommendations matched to their answers. You get the picture across the whole organisation.
Glasgow AI Readiness Programme
Ready for AI? Let's find out.
A free programme for Glasgow's community organisations, charities and social enterprises. Start with a fifteen-minute assessment that shows where your whole team stands with AI. Then get the support from CEIS to use it safely, responsibly and with purpose.
Free to take part. Organisations that complete the assessment get first access to workshops and cohorts in 2027. Places will be limited.
Led by CEIS in partnership with SocietalQ.
Hello, I'm Q. Fifteen minutes will tell you where your team stands.
Why now
AI is already in the building
Someone on your team uses a free AI tool most days. They're confident with it. Nobody has asked what they put in, or how much of what comes out gets checked. Someone else has decided it's not for them. A trustee has asked for the policy, and there isn't one.
That's how AI arrives in most workplaces: before anyone decides, one person at a time.
You can't set direction for what you can't see. So we start by making it visible. Find out what your staff and volunteers know, what they use and what worries them. Then decide together where AI helps your work, and where it stays out.
The programme
One programme, three steps
Everyone joins at step one. Where you go from there depends on what you find.
2Free now
Learn
Seven short guides cover the essentials, from what AI is to how to keep people's data safe and run a first experiment without putting the organisation at risk.
3From early 2027
Build
We'll add workshops, learning sessions and cohorts, designed around what Glasgow's assessments show. Places will be limited. Organisations that have completed the assessment will hear from us first.
Step one
See your organisation clearly
The AI Readiness Compass asks each person 27 questions across three areas to see where they stand with AI and how it fits with their work, to produce a personalised, practical guide on what to try next.
How it works
- 1
One person leads. Register your organisation and take the assessment first.
- 2
Invite your people. Staff and volunteers each get a private link.
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Everyone gets a personal report with recommendations matched to their answers.
- 4
Five completions open the dashboard. You see the patterns across your team.
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Decide what to do next. A conversation, a policy, a first experiment, or the 2027 programme.
200+tools, tips and templates
What each person gets
A personal report written for their situation. It shows what stood out in their answers and sets out practical moves for now, the next three months and the year ahead. Every recommendation is matched to their results from a library of more than 200 tools, tips and templates.
What the organisation gets
A dashboard showing where confidence is high and where it's missing, what people already use, and what the organisation needs to put in place. You see patterns across the team, never anyone's individual answers.
Privacy. Each person's answers are private to them. Leaders see patterns, never individual responses. The optional background questions never reach the organisation in any form.
Step two
Seven guides to the essentials
Each one answers a question people ask once they start using AI at work. Plain English, no prior knowledge needed, written for community organisations, charities and social enterprises. Short enough to read in one sitting.
F1
What AI actually is (and isn't)
"What is this technology, in plain terms?"
How these tools work, why they're sometimes confidently wrong, and which parts of the job stay yours.
Read the guide
F2
Use AI responsibly: the CARE approach
"How do I use AI without compromising what we stand for?"
Four habits, Choose, Articulate, Review and Ensure, that keep you in charge of anything AI helps with.
Read the guide
F3
Get better results: prompting with CRAFT
"Why are my results mediocre, and how do I fix that?"
A simple structure for asking well, and what to do when the answer misses.
Read the guide
F4
Make sense of AI tools
"Which tools should we use, and how do we choose safely?"
Four kinds of tool, four questions to ask before you trust one, and how to trial without wasting money.
Read the guide
F5
Keep people's data safe
"Can I put this in ChatGPT? What are we allowed to do?"
One test, four red lines and ten house rules. Enough to settle the question for good.
Read the guide
F6
Run your first safe AI experiment
"How do we actually try this properly?"
One hour, one real task, one honest verdict: adopt, adapt or abandon. A recorded "no" counts as a result.
Read the guide
F7
Use AI sustainably
"Can we square AI with our environmental values?"
Where the footprint comes from, why the published numbers disagree, and how to use less and say where you stand.
Read the guideFree to read, share and adapt under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY 4.0).
Step three
Support shaped by what Glasgow finds
From early 2027 we'll add workshops, learning sessions and cohorts for Glasgow organisations. We'll design them around the assessments: the questions leaders keep asking, the skills people want, and the safeguards that keep going missing.
Expect a mix, from short introductions for teams starting from nothing to deeper work with organisations ready to put AI to use.
Places will be limited. Organisations that have completed the assessment will be the first to hear from us about dates, and the first to get a place.
Who it's for
Glasgow's third sector, whatever your starting point
Community organisations, charities and social enterprises based in Glasgow. Free, funded by Glasgow City Council through the Glasgow Communities Fund.
You need no experience of AI. The programme is for the team that uses it every day, the team that hasn't started, and the team still arguing about whether it should.
It works best when several people take part, volunteers included. Five completions open your organisation's dashboard.
FAQs
More about the assessment
Who can take part? +
Any community organisation, charity or social enterprise based in Glasgow. There's no cost, no minimum size and no need for any AI experience.
Who should lead it for us? +
Whoever can invite colleagues and act on the results. Often the chief executive or a manager. Sometimes the person who's been experimenting on their own and has the backing to take it further.
How long does it take? +
About fifteen minutes per person. Registering your organisation takes a few minutes more. Most teams finish within a fortnight.
What does each person get? +
A personal report with their profile, what stood out in their answers, and recommendations matched to their results, drawn from more than 200 tools, tips and templates. It's theirs to keep and act on.
What do I get as the lead? +
Once five people have completed the assessment, a dashboard showing confidence, current use, concerns and gaps across the team, with recommendations for the organisation.
Can I see what individual colleagues said? +
No. You see patterns across the team. Individual answers stay with the individual, and the optional background questions never reach you in any form.
What if fewer than five people take part? +
Everyone who takes part still gets their personal report. The dashboard opens at five.
What happens after the assessment? +
Read the guides, work through your recommendations, and look out for the 2027 programme. Organisations that have completed the assessment will be first to hear from us about places.
Can we repeat it later? +
Yes. Come back after a few months to see what has changed.
We're outside Glasgow. Can we take part? +
This programme is for Glasgow organisations. Email us at AIreadiness@ceis.org.uk and we'll tell you about future opportunities.
Fifteen minutes. Then you'll know.
Take the assessment, invite your team, and be first in line when the 2027 programme opens.
Start the assessmentQuestions? Email us at AIreadiness@ceis.org.uk
About CEIS
CEIS helps enterprising third sector organisations innovate, grow and make a bigger impact.
The Glasgow AI Readiness Programme is part of our work to help the sector build the capabilities it needs for the next decade. Ultimately we do this to help build an economy that works for everyone.