AI Reality Check

IT service desk AI effectiveness & readiness assessment

A hands-on assessment of whether your service desk's data and processes can support AI, and what gaps to fill if not. If you've already deployed AI, it tells you whether it's underperforming, and why.

02 · What's evaluated

Six areas of your ticket data

a

Categorization consistency

The same issue logged five different ways means tickets don't route right the first time. This is the costliest pattern in service desk data: roughly 1 in 8 tickets get reassigned 2+ times, burning 8.5 extra hours and tanking satisfaction.

b

Repetition rate

13% of tickets drive 80% of lost productivity. If you can't see which 13%, you're fighting the wrong fires.

c

Resolution time variance

Teams with structured escalation resolve on first contact 27 points higher than teams without.

d

Description & knowledge quality

If a ticket only makes sense to whoever wrote it, no one else can work it — and AI definitely can't learn from it.

e

Data completeness

The root cause behind the two problems above. Missing fields, thin notes: AI has nothing to learn "resolved" from.

f

Ticket volume & patterns

Enough consistent signal for automation to help, instead of scaling the existing chaos.

03 · What you get

Deliverables

A readiness scorecard

Across the six areas above, so you know exactly where you stand.

A ranked list of what to fix

If you haven't adopted AI yet, this is your starting order. If you already have, this is why it isn't paying off.

A straight answer on your AI

Is it underperforming because the tool is bad, or because the data feeding it is bad? If you haven't turned AI on yet, this tells you what to fix first.

04 · The process

Three weeks, start to finish

1

Kickoff

A call to align on how the assessment works and what's expected from both sides.

2

Review

Your ticket data is analyzed against the six areas above, with follow-up if anything needs clarifying.

3

Findings

A scorecard and a ranked list of what to fix, reviewed together on a call.

4

Timeline

Three weeks, start to finish.