You have hundreds of stores.
How many are you actually watching?
Ten questions, one at a time, each paired with the industry data behind it. Your score out of 100 appears the moment you answer the last one. No email required to see it.
Are the systems unified?
POS, inventory, ERP, finance, labor. If they don’t join, you can’t reason across them.
Do you catch drift early, with cause?
An alert without a root cause is a backlog item. We grade both.
Does the loop close?
If interventions never get measured, the next ones don’t get smarter.
We ran 400+ retail locations before we built Ward. The questions in this assessment are the ones we wished someone had asked us at $40M, $80M, $120M. Score yourself honestly. We’ll meet you where you are.
What this retail AI readiness assessment measures
Most retailers do not have an AI problem. They have a data-readiness problem. Before an AI tool can predict a stockout, score a promotion, or catch shrinkage, the data behind those questions has to be unified, trustworthy, and actually used. This free assessment grades that readiness across ten dimensions, so you know what to fix before you buy anything.
The ten questions map to three stages: whether your POS, inventory, ERP, and finance systems unify into one source of truth; whether you catch drift early and with a root cause; and whether the loop closes, so every intervention makes the next one smarter. You get a score out of 100 and a personalized roadmap, built from what operators who ran 400+ locations wished they had known.
What is a retail AI readiness assessment?
A structured way to grade whether your data, systems, and team can actually support AI before you spend on it. Ward's free assessment scores ten dimensions of retail data maturity, from whether your POS, inventory, ERP, and finance systems join into one source of truth to whether you catch drift early and close the loop on the fixes you make.
How long does the assessment take?
About three minutes. Ten questions, one at a time, each paired with the industry figure behind it. Your score out of 100 appears on screen as soon as you answer the tenth question, with no email required. The written roadmap is an optional extra.
Who is the assessment for?
Multi-store retailers and CPG brands, and the operators inside them: merchandising, store ops, ecommerce, IT, and finance leaders who suspect they are sitting on data they cannot yet act on.
Is the assessment free?
Yes. It is free, with no deck and no call required to get your score. The roadmap is emailed to you instantly.