AI Readiness Checker for UAE and Saudi Organisations
Your people are already using AI. Is your organisation ready for it? Answer a few quick questions to get a readiness score, the gaps to close first and the UAE and Saudi frameworks each one relates to.
How Ready Is Your Organisation for AI?
Answer 12 quick questions. You get a score, the gaps to close first and the UAE and Saudi frameworks each one relates to.
1. Do you have a written, approved policy on how staff may use AI, including generative AI tools?
2. Is there an approved list of AI tools staff may use, with access limited to authorised people?
3. Do you have data classification rules that say what may and may not be entered into AI prompts?
4. Have all staff who use AI had training on responsible use, its limits and your data rules, tailored to their role, and do you track completion?
5. Is AI output checked by a person before it is used in decisions, customer communications or official documents, and can a person override or stop the AI?
6. Is there a named person accountable for AI (an AI owner or Chief AI Officer), with board or senior management oversight?
7. Do you keep a register of every AI tool and use case, including vendor tools, with owner, purpose and risk rating?
8. Before using AI for anything that affects people (hiring, credit, health, customer outcomes), do you carry out and record a risk or impact assessment?
9. Do you tell staff, customers and others when AI is used, when they are dealing with an AI, or when AI shaped a decision about them, and offer a human alternative?
10. Do you carry out due diligence on AI vendors, covering security, data handling, data location, audit rights and AI clauses in contracts?
11. Can staff report AI errors, biased or harmful outputs and data incidents, and is there a named person who investigates and fixes them?
12. Do you test AI uses that affect people for bias or discrimination, before launch and regularly afterwards?
AI Readiness Is a People Question First
Most staff in the Gulf already use AI tools at work, often without clear rules. The risks are rarely the technology itself: they are confidential data pasted into public tools, AI output used without anyone checking it, and nobody owning the decisions.
Neither the UAE nor Saudi Arabia has a single AI law covering every employer yet. Instead, national charters, ethics principles and generative AI guidelines set clear expectations, and some rules are already binding for particular groups, such as Dubai and Abu Dhabi government entities, DIFC companies and healthcare providers licensed by the Department of Health in Abu Dhabi.
The readiness questions in this checker come from those frameworks. Each gap links back to the frameworks it relates to, so you can see why it matters as well as what to do next.
What is AI readiness?
AI readiness is how prepared an organisation is to use artificial intelligence safely and productively: clear rules on which tools are allowed and what data can go into them, people trained to use AI well and check its output, and a named owner who keeps it all current.
Four Steps to an AI-Ready Workforce
An AI use policy, an approved tools list and clear limits on the data that can go into prompts.
AI basics, safe use and prompting for all staff, with deeper sessions for heavy users and leaders.
Human review of anything AI produces before it reaches a customer, a decision or a record.
Track who has been trained and refresh the training as tools and rules change.
Training, Platforms and Tools
AI Readiness Questions
Is there an AI law in the UAE or Saudi Arabia?
Not a single law that covers every employer. Both countries rely on national strategies, charters, ethics principles and guidelines, alongside data protection laws that give people rights over automated decisions. Some rules are binding for specific groups: DIFC Regulation 10 for companies in the DIFC, Dubai and Abu Dhabi government AI policies for government entities, and the Department of Health Abu Dhabi Responsible AI Standard for its licensees.
Do we have to train our staff on AI?
For some organisations, yes. The Department of Health Abu Dhabi Responsible AI Standard (October 2025) requires everyone who interacts with AI to be trained, and the Central Bank of the UAE guidance note on AI (February 2026) expects training in every function that uses it. Elsewhere the national frameworks expect AI awareness and skills, and training is the simplest way to show you take that seriously.
What should an AI use policy cover?
Which AI tools staff may use, what data must never go into a prompt, when a person must check AI output, when to tell customers AI was used, how to report errors or harmful output, and who owns AI decisions in the organisation.
How is the score worked out?
Each Yes scores two points, each Partly one and each No zero, shown as a percentage. 80% or more is well prepared, 50% to 79% is a good start with gaps, and below 50% is an early stage. Gaps marked No appear first.
Does it cover both the UAE and Saudi Arabia?
Yes. Choose either country or both, and the frameworks list changes to match. Sector choices add the rules for banking and finance, healthcare and government.
Are my answers stored?
No. The checker runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to send us your results with the Get help button.
Is this checker legal advice?
No. It is general guidance built from official sources and checked in November 2026. AI rules in the region are changing quickly, so open the source for each framework and check with your legal or compliance team.
Can you train our staff on AI?
Yes. Our AI training for employees covers safe, productive use for every level, in Arabic, English and any language, and Siraj, our AI-powered LMS, keeps the records that show who has been trained.
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AI Training That Sticks
Send us your results and we will suggest the policy, training and records that fit your organisation, in Arabic, English or any language.
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