A current-state snapshot
A clear, evidence-based view of where your team sits on the AI Use Hierarchy today, including the realistic distribution across your staff. Most teams are not all at one level, and that itself matters.
Where does your team
really sit with AI?
A free AI Health Check for higher education teams, departments, and faculties. We map where your team is today, where the realistic next steps are, and what credible progress looks like over the next twelve months.
No prep required. · 45 minutes. · A written summary in your inbox afterwards.
What the AI Health Check is
The Health Check is a focused, free diagnostic for a specific team, department, or faculty. It is built around the WorkSmart-AI Use Hierarchy, a six-level framework that describes how individual staff progress in their AI capability, from first conversations with a chatbot through to designing automated workflows.
You do not need to prepare anything. You do not need to have your team complete a survey beforehand (although we can run one if you want a more detailed snapshot). What you do need is around 45 minutes with someone who knows the team well enough to answer questions about how staff currently work, what tools are in use, where the friction is, and what would constitute a meaningful win in the next six to twelve months.
From that conversation, we produce a written summary that you can share with colleagues, take to your senior team, or use to inform your own planning. It is yours to keep, whether or not you ever speak to us again.
What you get
Every AI Health Check produces three things.
A prioritised set of next moves
Two or three specific, achievable steps that would meaningfully shift your team's capability in the next quarter, sequenced sensibly so foundations come before sophistication.
A twelve-month outlook
A short narrative on what credible progress looks like for a team like yours over the next year, including which staff groups would benefit from what kind of support, and where the obvious quick wins sit alongside the deeper capability shifts.
The summary is written in plain English, free of jargon, and designed to be useful even if AI is not your specialist area.
Who it is for
The AI Health Check is most useful if you lead, manage, or have oversight of a team in a UK higher education institution. That includes heads of department, faculty deans, professional services managers, programme directors, research group leads, and anyone in HR, L&D, or digital roles thinking about staff capability at team level rather than across the whole institution.
It is particularly useful if you are facing a budget conversation, a strategy refresh, an audit, or a senior leadership request for “the AI plan” and you would like to be able to answer that question with evidence rather than impressions.
It is not the right tool if you are looking for an individual self-assessment (our free AI Staff Readiness Quiz is the better starting point for that) or if you are looking for an institution-wide strategic review (in which case our AI Leadership Clarity Programme is the more appropriate engagement).
How it works
Three steps, and the whole process takes about a week from booking to receiving your summary.
01
Book a slot
Get in touch to tell us a little about your team and pick a 45-minute window that suits you. We will send a short note in advance explaining the kinds of questions we will cover, so you can think about what you want to bring to the conversation.
02
The conversation
A 45-minute call over Teams or Zoom. No slides, no sales pitch, no homework. We ask, you talk, we listen and probe where it helps. The agenda is shaped around your team and what would be most useful for you to leave with.
03
Your written summary
Within three working days you receive a written Health Check summary by email. It is yours to share, file, ignore, or act on, as you see fit. If you want a follow-up conversation to talk through it, we are happy to. If you do not, that is genuinely fine.
What happens after
Some teams take the Health Check, use the summary internally, and we never hear from them again. That is a perfectly good outcome. The point of the offer is to give you something useful, not to manufacture a sales conversation.
Where teams do want to take next steps with us, the most common routes are a single targeted workshop (for example, AI Foundations and Responsible Use for all staff, or a role-specific session for academics, researchers, or professional services), a phased twelve-workshop programme mapped to the hierarchy, or, for senior leaders, an institutional-level engagement through our AI Leadership Clarity Programme. Pricing and structure for all of these can be discussed if and when it is useful.
You are under no obligation to do any of this. The Health Check stands on its own.
Ready to find out where your team really stands?
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Is the Health Check really free?
Yes. There is no fee, no commitment, and no requirement to do anything further. It exists because the most useful conversations we have with potential clients tend to start from a shared understanding of where their team actually is, and the Health Check is the most efficient way to build that.
Who will I be speaking to?
You will speak with one of the WorkSmart-AI founders, both of whom previously held Digital Skills Lead roles at a UK university before starting the business. You will not be passed to a junior account manager.
What information do you need before the call?
Very little. The booking form asks for your name, institution, role, the team or department the Health Check is for, and rough team size. We do not ask for confidential information, and you do not need to send documents in advance.
Can I bring colleagues?
Yes. Many heads of department find it useful to invite an L&D partner, digital lead, or deputy. We would suggest a maximum of three people on the call to keep the conversation focused.
Will you try to sell me a workshop at the end?
No. If something we offer looks like a genuine fit for what you have described, we will say so, and you can decide whether to explore that separately. If nothing fits, we will tell you that too. The Health Check is the deliverable, not the bait.
What if my team is at a very early stage and I would feel embarrassed to talk about it?
Most teams are at a very early stage. Honestly, that is the median position in higher education right now, and there is no judgement attached to it. The Health Check is more useful, not less, the earlier you are.
Is this only for UK universities?
We work primarily with UK higher education institutions. We will run a Health Check for further education colleges and other education settings on request, but the framework and benchmarks are most precisely calibrated for UK HE.
Find out where your team really stands.
45 minutes. A written summary in your inbox. No obligation, no sales pitch, no jargon. Just a clear, evidence-based view of where your team is today and what credible next steps look like.
Or email hello@worksmart-ai.co.uk with any questions before you book.