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Check your AI potential The free AI Potential Check

Your AI maturity and up to five use cases that fit your company best. First results instantly in your browser. Unlock euro ranges and the roadmap with your email address. We only read public pages.

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  • Free
  • First results instantly
  • Works without a website too

We only read public pages, such as the home page, legal notice, careers page and sitemap.

  • AI Act (EU) 2024/1689
  • GDPR
  • Destatis
  • Eurostat
  • Bitkom
  • Studies

What the check reads and what you get

First your website, then a few short questions. From these the check works out your maturity and the use cases that fit your company.

  • Your website

    What does the web say about your company?

    Home page, legal notice, careers page and sitemap: from these we prefill industry, business model and shop system and spot signals such as open positions, a missing chat widget or many product pages.

  • Your answers

    Where does your team lose time?

    Systems, time sinks, rough volumes, state of your data and start date. Rough estimates are fine, and you can change your answers in the result at any time.

  • Instantly in your browser

    How ready is your company for AI?

    AI maturity from 0 to 100 in five areas, up to five fitting use cases with department and a preliminary classification under the EU AI Act, plus first findings.

  • With your email

    What is the freed-up time worth?

    Euro ranges and hours per use case, a roadmap, notes on data protection and the EU AI Act, and every assumption to adjust. We also send you the report by email.

What a result looks like

A made-up company, calculated with the same formula as the check: Wholesale, 50–249 employees, online shop on Shopware, ERP SAP Business One.

  • AI maturity and classification instantly
  • Use cases sorted by value, feasibility, effort and your answers
  • Euro ranges and hours once you enter your email
Check your own AI potential
ExampleExample Wholesale GmbH
AI maturity

47/100

Building up

Top levers combined

€57k–110k

per year, typicalValue of the working time freed up, typical, before licence and running costs

Freed-up working time: about 150 hours per month, typical

  1. 1 · Sales

    Capture orders from email and PDF

    €16,000–28,000

    per year, typicalValue of the working time freed up, typical, before licence and running costs
  2. 2 · E-commerce

    Write product copy from product data

    €11,000–21,000

    per year, typicalValue of the working time freed up, typical, before licence and running costs
  3. 3 · Customer service

    Sort service emails and suggest replies

    €10,000–20,000

    per year, typicalValue of the working time freed up, typical, before licence and running costs
  4. 4 · Sales

    Prepare B2B quotes from enquiries

    €12,000–29,000

    per year, typicalValue of the working time freed up, typical, before licence and running costs
  5. 5 · Purchasing

    Check and chase order confirmations

    €6,600–13,000

    per year, typicalValue of the working time freed up, typical, before licence and running costs
Made-up example. All volumes are typical values for this industry and size, calculated with €45 per hour and the “Realistic” scenario.

How the check calculates

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How is the euro value calculated?Formula

Volume × minutes per task × AI share ÷ 60 × 12 × hourly rate

For each use case the check takes your monthly volume or, if you leave it empty, a typical value for your industry and size. Minutes per task and the share the AI takes over are cautious values from studies and vendor figures. The hourly rate is €45 employer cost per hour including non-wage costs, the average across all businesses in Germany. Smaller businesses and trades are often lower.

The range runs from the cautious to the ambitious end of the chosen scenario (cautious, realistic or ambitious). So that no use case grows unrealistically large, the check caps the hours per use case and for the top list by company size. You can change the hourly rate, the scenario and the volumes in the report.

The result is the value of the freed-up working time, typical, before licence and running costs.

How is the AI maturity score calculated?0 to 100

Five areas with up to 20 points each. From 80 points the check shows “AI-ready”, from 60 “Good foundation”, from 40 “Building up”, below that “Getting started”.

  • Data: How structured your data is and whether ERP and CRM bring it together.
  • Systems: Which systems you use and how well they can be reached via interfaces.
  • Processes: How clearly time sinks and volumes are named and how digital your workflows are.
  • Team: How your team uses AI today.
  • Governance: Whether there are approved tools, rules and a framework for AI.

Use cases are sorted by value, feasibility, effort and your answers. If a use case needs something that is still missing, such as an ERP or digitally captured data, it moves down.

What does the scan read?Public pages

Our server only fetches publicly accessible pages of your website, within a fixed time limit:

  • Home page
  • robots.txt and sitemap
  • Legal notice (Impressum)
  • Careers page and at most one page of a job board linked there
  • MX records of the domain in DNS

From these it reads:

  • Industry, business model and shop system for the prefill
  • Company name, legal form and city from the legal notice, shown only to you
  • Open positions and their titles
  • Chat widget, traces of CRM tools and the website's languages
  • Product pages in the sitemap and missing translations
  • Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace from the MX records
How does AI classify your website?With redaction

Our server sends an AI model by TypeSafe AI only the language, title, meta description, headings, menu items and a short text excerpt of your home page, plus job titles and paths from the sitemap. Before that it removes email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, the company name from the legal notice, headings and menu items that look like a person's name, as well as sentences containing role or title words such as managing director, owner, Mr, Ms or Dr, quotes and legal text. Other names your home page shows publicly may remain. The model classifies the website, for example by industry and business model, to prefill the questions. You check and correct the prefill before anything is calculated.

If the AI model does not answer, fixed keyword rules classify the website. The check calculates every figure in the result with fixed formulas, not with the AI model.

Where do the assumptions come from?41 sources

Statistics, studies and vendor figures from which we cautiously derive minutes per task, the share the AI takes over and hourly rates:

From check to measurement

The check calculates with typical values. How much of it is in your company only shows with real volumes and handling times from your processes.

For companies that want to decide on real numbers

Measuring the potential with real numbers: interviews with your team, volumes and handling times from your processes and a technical review. At the end you get an assessment and prioritisation of the use cases and a roadmap.

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Slawa Ditzel

Executive Partner

Reply within one business day

  1. You send your result or your questions
  2. We go through the use cases with you
  3. You get a concrete next step

30 minutes · no pitch · honest assessment

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AI Potential Check FAQ

Your question isn't here? Ask us directly

How accurate is the AI Potential Check?
It calculates with your answers and typical values from studies and vendor figures, which we apply cautiously, so it shows ranges instead of fixed numbers. You can change every assumption in the report. The AI potential analysis calculates more precisely with real volumes and handling times from your processes.
What happens to my data?
For the scan our server fetches public pages of your website and looks up the MX records of your domain. We show details from the legal notice only to you. An AI model by TypeSafe AI classifies the language, title, meta description, headings, menu items and a text excerpt of the home page, job titles and sitemap paths; before that we remove email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, the company name from the legal notice and sentences containing role or title words such as managing director, owner, Mr/Ms or Dr. Other names shown publicly may remain. Until you request the report, we store nothing from the scan. Until then your answers stay in this browser tab's session storage; to calculate, your browser sends them to our server, which does not store them. If you request the report, we receive your answers, the website and your email address, create an entry in our CRM and email you the report. Details are in our privacy policy.
What do I see instantly and what after the email?
Instantly you see your AI maturity from 0 to 100 in five areas, up to five fitting use cases with department and a preliminary classification under the EU AI Act, plus first findings. With your business email address you unlock euro ranges and hours per use case, further use cases, a roadmap, notes on data protection and the EU AI Act, and every assumption to adjust. We also email you the report.
Does the check work without a website?
Yes. With “Continue without a website” you answer industry, size, business model and online shop yourself. Without a scan you only miss the signals from your website, such as open positions or the sitemap.
Is the EU AI Act classification legal advice?
No. It is our preliminary assessment per use case under the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) and does not replace legal advice.
Does our team need AI knowledge already?
No. The check is meant for management and business departments and needs no prior knowledge.
What does the check cost?
Nothing, the AI Potential Check is free. The AI potential analysis with real numbers is a paid service; we agree scope and cost with you beforehand.

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Slawa Ditzel
Executive Partner
info@next-levels.de +49 (0) 2161 539 71 60