> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.aireadyscore.com.au/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Assessments
> How evaluations and runs work, Quick and Full assessments, sections, submitting, and re-taking.
## Evaluations and runs
An **evaluation** is an assessment that the AI Ready team writes, versions, and publishes.
You can't create or edit your own, you take the ones that are available to your
organisation. You'll see them under **Evaluations → AI Readiness**. (In the assessment
screens themselves, an evaluation is often called an **assessment**.)
A **run** is one attempt at an evaluation. A run shows as **In progress** until you submit
it, as **Completed** once submitted, and as **Abandoned** if it was discarded. Because an
evaluation is versioned, a run keeps showing the version it started on, even if a newer
version is published later.
## Which one should I take?
**Start with the Quick Assessment. There is no other correct answer**, it's the only one
open to you at first, and the Full Assessment is deliberately locked behind it.
| | Quick Assessment | Full Assessment |
| ------------ | ----------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Take it when | You're starting out, or you want a current read | You've done the Quick one and are committing real budget or time |
| Gives you | A snapshot of where you stand | The depth to plan against |
| Available | Immediately | After the Quick Assessment, with an advisor (Free plan) |
Don't wait until you can answer everything perfectly. A run you submit with honest
"we don't know" answers is far more useful than one you never finish, and re-running it
later is the point. Your plan includes a set number of runs and a retake waiting
period, so make each one count — see
[Allowances and retake waits](#allowances-and-retake-waits).
## Quick and Full assessments
You start with the **Quick Assessment**, a short snapshot of your AI readiness. The
**Full Assessment** is a deeper version whose **prerequisite clears once you've completed
the Quick Assessment**. Until then it stays locked, with the reason *"Complete the Quick
Assessment first."* After that, on the Free plan, a Full Assessment run is **started with
an advisor** — yours, or one you request a match with from the assessment's card — and
your organisation is paced by the retake waiting period between Full runs.
An assessment is organised into **sections**, and you answer one section at a time. The
header shows where you are, for example *"Section 2 of 7"*; the count includes the
final **Review** step, where you check your answers before you submit.
## Assessments included in your plan
An assessment can also be held back by what your organisation's plan covers. On the Free
plan the **Full Assessment** is part of your plan but includes **no self-serve runs**:
once its prerequisite clears, its card shows **"Full Assessment allowance used"**, *"Your
plan's included runs are used up."*, and offers **Request an advisor match** as the way
forward, because an advisor can start the run for you.
An assessment that is **not part of your plan at all** shows:
* An overlay on its card reading **\[Assessment] is locked**, *"This assessment is not
included in your plan."*
* A **Locked** badge where the assessment's state normally shows.
* No **Start** and no **Continue**, anywhere. A locked assessment is dropped from your
dashboard alerts, and a **Continue** link into it returns you to the assessments
list. It still appears in [Find](/using/navigating#find-k), which searches the whole
catalogue.
This lock is about your organisation's plan, not about your role or your progress. It
is not the same as the Full Assessment's prerequisite, which you clear by completing
the Quick Assessment. If you think your organisation should have access, talk to your
advisor or contact us.
## Allowances and retake waits
Assessments your plan *does* include come with an **allowance** (how many runs are
included) and, for some, a **retake waiting period** after an attempt. These show up as:
* A footer on the assessment's card reading, for example, **"1 of 1 included run
left."** while you still have runs available.
* An overlay reading **"\[Assessment] allowance used"** once the included runs are spent. This is
not the same as *locked*: the assessment is part of your plan, there is simply no run
left right now. If you work with an advisor, they may be able to start a run for you.
* An overlay naming the assessment, with the date and time you can take it again, for
example *"You can retake this from 15 Oct 2026, 09:30."*, after a recent attempt.
Answering any part of a run counts as an attempt, so resetting a run you have worked on
does not clear the wait. Starting a run and resetting it **without answering anything**
does not start a wait at all: carried-over answers you never touched are not progress.
* **"Started by \{Advisor Org}."** in place of the count, where the run was funded by an
advisor rather than from your own allowance. If we cannot show the firm's name it reads
*"Started by your advisor."*
You can **Request an advisor match** at more than one point: a quiet prompt on the
overview once a run is in progress, a gentle prompt just after you submit, and its most
prominent place on your finished report. They are all the same one-time request, and your
organisation sends it once.
After you've sent it, each place stops asking again: the overview prompt goes away, and
your report shows a short status line with a link to **Organisation → Advisors** in place
of the button. Where a locked feature offered the request, that control simply stays
greyed out, and hovering it shows *"Request received. We'll be in touch."* You follow the
request through on **Organisation → Advisors**, which shows its state: requested, in
review, matched, declined, or on hold.
An advisor starting an assessment for you uses your organisation's allowance first and
their own after that; the retake waiting period always applies to **your organisation**,
whoever started the run.
## Submitting locks a run
When you submit a run, it's **frozen**: it becomes a read-only record of what you answered
and can't be edited. If you want to answer differently, you take the assessment again,
which creates a **new run**, your submitted runs are never changed.
## Re-taking an assessment
* The start button always reads **Start new**, whether it is your first attempt or a
re-take.
* You can only have **one run in progress at a time** for an assessment, *"One
in-progress run at a time; continue or reset the current run first."* Either continue
the run you have open, or reset it.
* Resetting discards an in-progress run so you can start fresh. The dialog is titled
**Reset progress?**, *"This discards your in-progress run so you can start a new one.
This action is logged."* Resetting only affects the in-progress draft; your submitted
history stays intact.
* The Full Assessment stays gated behind completing the Quick Assessment.
## Related
Step-by-step, from starting a run to submitting it.
What happens after you submit.