Mentis offering
Before you invest in AI, know exactly where you stand — and what the EU AI Act expects of you
A 4-week, fixed-scope diagnostic for mid-market organisations in regulated industries in Belgium & Luxembourg. You get a board-ready picture of your AI maturity across six dimensions, a prioritised opportunity portfolio, and a compliance-aware roadmap.
Sound familiar?
Why organisations call us
Every vendor is selling something different, and the board wants answers this quarter.
The ChatGPT experiment impressed everyone and changed nothing about how work gets done.
Legal says no because nobody can answer the EU AI Act question with confidence.
And nobody can say how bad it is, or what it would take to fix for the use cases that matter.
Sovereignty and confidentiality constraints rule out the default AI stack everyone else demos.
In four weeks, with a fixed scope and a fixed price — not a six-month study.
The Mentis READY Framework
Six dimensions, one clear picture
Each dimension is scored on a five-level maturity scale — from Ad hoc to Optimised — producing the radar chart and sector benchmark that anchor the executive readout.
Business alignment, use-case portfolio, ROI logic, sponsorship. Output: a scored opportunity map (value × feasibility × risk).
Availability, quality, lineage, and your unstructured estate — documents, contracts, emails. Output: a data readiness scorecard per priority use case.
Current stack, integration surface, cloud/on-prem posture, sovereignty constraints. Output: target reference architecture options, including a sovereign path.
Risk classification of current and planned AI systems under the EU AI Act, GDPR interplay, oversight gaps. Output: an AI Act exposure register and gap analysis.
Skills, roles, change readiness, decision rights — who owns AI? Output: a capability gap map and an operating model recommendation.
Model risk, data-leakage vectors, shadow AI usage, auditability. Output: an AI-specific risk register.
Deliverables
What you walk away with
Around 25 pages, in French or English: maturity radar, findings per dimension, and a benchmark against sector peers.
5–10 use cases scored on value, feasibility and risk — each with its AI Act risk class attached.
An inventory of existing and planned AI systems, risk-classified, with the top compliance gaps.
Sequenced and costed at order-of-magnitude level, with quick wins identified.
A half day on-site with your leadership: presentation of findings and facilitated prioritisation.
Four weeks, fixed scope, fixed price
Week 1 — Discover
Kickoff, document review (strategy, IT landscape, data catalogues, policies) and a readiness survey to 10–15 stakeholders.
Week 2 — Interview
8–12 structured interviews across leadership, IT, data, compliance and business units, plus a technical architecture review.
Week 3 — Analyse
Scoring, use-case portfolio construction, AI Act classification, roadmap drafting.
Week 4 — Deliver
Report finalisation, executive readout workshop, handover of all materials.
Engagement options
Three ways to start
Every engagement is fixed scope and fixed price — you know exactly what you get and what it costs before we begin.
Readiness Flash
1 week · remote
A low-friction first look: scorecard deep-dive, three interviews, a findings memo and a readout.
- ✓ 3 structured interviews
- ✓ 10-page findings memo
- ✓ 90-minute executive readout
Fixed price — request a quote
Book a readiness debriefFull AI Readiness Assessment
4 weeks · on-site + remote
The complete diagnostic across all six READY dimensions — the board-ready picture of where you stand and what to do next.
- ✓ 8–12 stakeholder interviews & architecture review
- ✓ Maturity radar across six dimensions
- ✓ Scored AI opportunity portfolio
- ✓ AI Act exposure register
- ✓ 90-day action plan + 12-month roadmap
- ✓ Half-day executive readout workshop
Fixed price — request a quote
Book a readiness debriefAssessment + AI Act Compliance Pack
4 weeks · on-site + remote
The full assessment plus an AI Act documentation starter kit to move from findings to compliance immediately.
- ✓ Everything in the full assessment
- ✓ Risk classification files per AI system
- ✓ Pre-filled technical documentation templates
- ✓ AI governance charter draft
Fixed price — request a quote
Book a readiness debriefNot ready to talk? Take the free 4-minute scorecard — the fastest first snapshot of where you stand.
Why Mentis
Credibility your compliance team can verify
Regulatory credibility on the EU AI Act that generalist consultancies cannot claim.
The person who runs the assessment is the person with the track record — not a junior consulting bench.
On-premise LLM inference and EU-hosted stacks — the exact concern of regulated buyers, answered from experience.
Brussels-based, delivery in French or English. A spin-off of the Université libre de Bruxelles, active since 2005.
Our guarantee
If the executive readout doesn't identify at least three actionable opportunities, we refund the fee.
Questions
Who is this for?
Organisations of roughly 100–2,000 people in regulated or compliance-heavy sectors — finance, legal, healthcare, public sector — in Belgium and Luxembourg. If the board is asking about AI and compliance is asking about the AI Act, it is for you.
How much of our time does it take?
A short readiness survey for 10–15 people, an hour each for 8–12 interviewees, and a half-day readout with leadership. We do the rest.
Does it cover the EU AI Act?
Yes — governance and AI Act compliance is one of the six dimensions. You receive an exposure register classifying your current and planned AI systems, with the top compliance gaps. The Compliance Pack tier adds pre-filled documentation templates.
Is our data safe during the assessment?
The assessment reviews your systems and practices — it does not extract your data. Work happens under NDA, on-site or on EU-hosted infrastructure, in line with the sovereignty-first approach we recommend to clients.
What happens after the four weeks?
You own the report, the roadmap and the 90-day plan. Execute it internally, with any partner, or with Mentis — the plan is written to be actionable regardless of who delivers it.
Remote or on-site?
Interviews run remote or on-site as suits your teams; the executive readout is a half day on-site. Delivery in French or English.
Find out where you stand
A 30-minute call to see whether the assessment fits your situation — no slides, no obligation.