Run the AI readiness assessment job in Now Assist Center

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated June 2, 2026
  • 1 minute to read

    • Run the AI readiness assessment to analyze your instance and evaluate its readiness for AI adoption.

    Before you begin

    Role required: sn_na_center.nac_admin

    About this task

    Follow these steps to run the AI readiness assessment job. The job performs an analysis of your instance data and produces readiness assessments. The assessments enable you to identify configuration gaps, measure readiness over time, and accelerate the path to AI implementation.

    The AI readiness assessment is performed with the Now Assist Readiness Evaluation application. For more information, see Now Assist Readiness Evaluation in Now Assist Center.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > Now Assist Center or Workspaces > Now Assist Center.

      The Now Assist Center opens to the home page.

      The card in the AI readiness section displays a Start AI readiness assessment button if the assessment has not yet been run.

      Figure 1. AI readiness section
      AI readiness shown in Now Assist Center.
    2. Select Start AI readiness assessment to run the assessment of your instance.

      The AI readiness assessment may take several minutes to run.

      After the assessment is complete, the results display in a card showing your overall AI readiness status.

      Figure 2. Overall AI readiness assessment
      Card showing the summary results of the overall AI readiness assessment.
    3. Optional: Re-run the overall AI readiness assessment at any time.
      1. Select AI readiness assessment (AI readiness assessment icon.) in the side navigation bar.

        The AI Readiness Assessment tab opens.

        AI Readiness Assessment tab showing a general assessment summary and a list of assessments.

      2. Select Re-run assessment.
    4. Optional: Re-run the individual AI readiness assessment for specified area of your instance at any time.
      1. Select AI readiness assessment (AI readiness assessment icon.) in the side navigation bar.

        The AI Readiness Assessment tab opens.

      2. Select View assessment in the card of an individual assessment.

        The View Assessment tab opens showing the detailed results of a readiness assessment for the specified area of your instance.

        View Assessment tab showing the detailed results of a readiness assessment.

      3. Select Re-run assessment.
        Note:
        The label of the button includes the assessment name. In the example of running the assessment for AI Search, the button label is Re-run AI Search assessment.

    What to do next

    Review the readiness assessments that the Now Assist Readiness Evaluation has identified for your instance. For more information, see View your AI readiness assessment in Now Assist Center.