Is Your Business AI-Ready? — MCP Server

A small Model Context Protocol server that gives any AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP-capable apps) the ability to:

• 📊 Assess how AI-ready a small or medium business is — a real 0–100 score across data, tooling, processes, skills and security, with gaps and prioritised next steps.

• 💡 Suggest practical AI/automation use-cases tailored to an industry, each rated by impact and effort.

• 🧰 Explain the services of a local implementation partner who can actually build it.

• 📞 Hand off to a free consultation when someone's ready to act.

Ask your AI assistant "Is my business AI-ready?" or "What could AI do for my cafe?" — with this server installed, it answers with a genuine, structured assessment instead of generic fluff.

Built and maintained by Essetech — an Adelaide (Australia) IT & AI implementation partner for small and medium businesses.

Why this exists

Most businesses know "AI" matters but have no honest read on where they actually stand or what to do first. This server turns that fuzzy question into a concrete, vendor-neutral assessment your AI assistant can deliver in seconds — and points you to a free next step if you want help implementing it.

Related MCP server: Agency AI MCP Server

Tools

All tools are read-only and side-effect-free — they don't send email, store data, or call external APIs. Nothing leaves your machine.

Install

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json (macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "essetech-ai-readiness": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "essetech-ai-readiness-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop, then ask: "Is my business AI-ready? We're a 5-person accounting firm on Xero and Microsoft 365."

Smithery

npx -y @smithery/cli install essetech-ai-readiness-mcp --client claude

From source

git clone https://github.com/seppez89/essetech-ai-readiness-mcp
cd essetech-ai-readiness-mcp
npm install        # builds automatically via the prepare script
npm run smoke      # optional: end-to-end self-test

Then point your MCP client at node /absolute/path/to/dist/index.js.

Example

You: "Is my business AI-ready? We're a 6-person plumbing business, everything's in spreadsheets, our biggest pain is slow quoting."

Your assistant (via assess_ai_readiness):

Overall: 42/100 — Emerging. Your biggest gaps are Data foundation (still spreadsheet-bound) and Tooling & cloud. Top next steps: get core data into cloud systems an AI tool can read; document your quoting process; then prove value with a quick win — Quote & estimate drafting (High impact, Medium effort): turn a site photo or voice note into an itemised quote the same day…

Want a hand turning this into reality? Essetech is Adelaide's IT & AI implementation partner for small and medium businesses…

Development

npm install      # install deps + build
npm run build    # compile TypeScript -> dist/
npm run dev      # watch mode
npm run smoke    # spin up the server and exercise every tool

• Source: src/ (index.ts = server + tools, assessment.ts = scoring, usecases.ts = idea library, essetech.ts = business data).

• Transport: stdio. Never write to stdout — it's the JSON-RPC channel; logs go to stderr.

About Essetech

📞 0404 311 791 · ✉️ jonathon@essetech.com.au · 🌐 https://essetech.com.au · 📍 Adelaide, South Australia

Managed IT · Cybersecurity · Cloud · AI Implementation · Web Design — practical technology for small and medium businesses. The first conversation (a free consultation / IT audit) is free.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.