The DA-GEOS™ Diagnostic
Organizations are adopting AI faster than their leadership systems and governance practices can support. The gap between what your people are already doing and what your organization has actually approved is where the exposure lives — and most executive teams cannot yet measure it.
A premium strategic gap analysis. Evidence, not enthusiasm.
The DA-GEOS™ Diagnostic evaluates readiness, prioritizes opportunities, governs risk, and installs measurable operating routines across five domains. Every score is tied to evidence — a document, a policy, an interview, an artifact. Not to how confident anyone feels.
It is led personally by Dr. Darryl S. Adams and it establishes a Human-Directed AI™ operating standard: people lead, technology serves, leadership decides.
Two to four weeks. You end with a scorecard, a risk map, a prioritized portfolio, and a 90-day roadmap with named owners — the four artifacts you need to walk into a board meeting and answer for what your organization is doing.
Five domains. Twenty-five indicators.
| Domain | What we evaluate |
|---|---|
| Executive Vision & Leadership Capacity | Strategic purpose, decision rights, executive sponsorship, board and leadership AI fluency, organizational capacity. |
| Board Governance & Policy Readiness | Policy currency, privacy, ethics, risk ownership, procurement, public trust, human accountability, incident escalation. |
| Data & Technology Infrastructure | Data quality and classification, security, access controls, integration readiness, approved platforms, continuity and manual fallback. |
| People, Culture & Workflow Efficiency | Workforce readiness, adoption barriers, workflow bottlenecks, role and decision boundaries, training needs. |
| Execution & Measurement | Prioritization discipline, pilot design, dashboards, KPIs, ROI assumptions, and the review routines that turn evidence into action. |
Each indicator is scored 1–5 against a published evidence standard — from Not Established to Optimized. Scores require observable proof and a named owner, not confidence.
What you get
| Deliverable | Executive outcome |
|---|---|
| Readiness Scorecard | Twenty-five indicators, five domains, weighted to an overall readiness band from Critical Exposure to Scale Ready. Every score carries its evidence. |
| Risk Map | Twelve risk categories scored on likelihood × impact — governance, privacy, cybersecurity, bias, vendor lock-in, shadow AI, continuity, public trust. Critical risks trigger a mandatory pause. |
| Executive Decision Matrix™ | Your initiatives classified into Quick Wins, Strategic Initiatives, Operational Improvements, and Future Watch — scored on impact, readiness, feasibility, urgency, and risk exposure. |
| 90-Day Implementation Roadmap | Three phases — Align & Govern, Build & Pilot, Deploy & Measure — with phase gates, a 13-week action tracker, a training plan, and a KPI dictionary. |
| Executive Debrief | Facilitated review of findings, leadership decisions, ownership assignments, and next-phase recommendations. With signatures. |
Who this is for
- Executive teams and boards in school systems, public agencies, nonprofits, and businesses
- Organizations where AI is already in use and no one can produce an inventory of it
- Leaders who need to justify — or defend — an AI investment to a board or a funder
- Anyone whose free readiness assessment came back Developing or lower
Who this is not for
- Organizations looking for a report to file. This diagnostic ends with a signature page and named owners, because a finding nobody owns is a finding nobody acts on.
- Teams not yet able to share supporting documentation. Evidence-based scoring depends on that material to mean anything — if you are not there yet, the free assessment is a good place to start instead.
- Leaders who already know what they want to buy and want a report that agrees. If the evidence says pause, the diagnostic will say pause.
Two to four weeks. Four artifacts.
Gather the evidence
Executive intake, document review, stakeholder interviews, readiness evidence collection. Policies, strategic plans, technology inventory, workflow maps, training records, risk reports, dashboards.
Score it honestly
Scorecard analysis, risk mapping, governance and workflow gap assessment. This is where most organizations discover the distance between what they believe about themselves and what they can document.
Prioritize the portfolio
The Executive Decision Matrix™ workshop. Your team scores initiatives independently before discussing — which prevents the loudest voice in the room from setting the agenda — then classifies the portfolio and designs the roadmap.
Assign the ownership
Executive debrief, final report, ownership confirmation, implementation recommendations. Every top priority leaves with an executive owner, a 30-day milestone, a required guardrail, and a defined proof of progress.
What it costs
Focused Diagnostic
$7,500 Single organization · up to 8 stakeholder interviews · 2–3 weeksAll five domains, the full scorecard, risk map, Decision Matrix, and 90-day roadmap. Executive debrief included.
Enterprise Diagnostic
$15,000 Multi-site, district, or board + cabinet · up to 20 interviews · 4 weeksAdds a board-facing presentation, a governance findings memo, and cross-site comparison of readiness and risk.
The Diagnostic is credited in full against a subsequent Implementation Sprint booked within 90 days. If the evidence shows you are not ready to implement, we will tell you — and you will not have spent $45,000 finding out. Final scope, deliverables, schedule, and investment are confirmed through a written proposal and agreement.
AI supports professional judgment. It does not replace board, superintendent, executive, legal, financial, or human judgment. Final decisions remain with accountable leaders.
People lead. Technology serves. Leadership decides.This is not a disclaimer. It is the operating standard the entire diagnostic is built to enforce — and the reason a board can accept its findings.
Request the scope & investment
Tell us about your organization. You will receive a scoped proposal within one business day.
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