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title: Run the AI readiness assessment job in AI Admin Center \(Next Experience UI\)
description: Run the AI readiness assessment to analyze your instance and evaluate its readiness for AI adoption.
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# Run the AI readiness assessment job in AI Admin Center\(Next Experience UI\)

Run the AI readiness assessment to analyze your instance and evaluate its readiness for AI adoption.

**Important:** Lux is the new user experience for AI Admin Center. For more information on the Lux experience, see [AI Admin Center user experience \(Lux UI\)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/ai-admin-center-lux-user-experience.md).

The Next Experience AI Admin Center workspace is being prepared for deprecation in the November store release and will no longer be supported. For more information on the Next Experience UI, see [AI Admin Center workspace \(Next Experience UI\)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/now-assist-center-workspace.md).

In AI Admin Center version 6.1, the Next Experience and Lux user interfaces are both available.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_na\_center.nac\_admin

## About this task

Follow these steps to run the AI readiness assessment job. The job performs an analysis of your instance data and produces readiness assessments. The assessments enable you to identify configuration gaps, measure readiness over time, and accelerate the path to AI implementation.

**Note:** This topic describes the AI Admin Center feature based on the Next Experience UI. If you're using the Lux user experience for AI Admin Center, see the Lux UI version of this topic.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **AI Admin Center** > **AI Admin Center \(Legacy\)**.

    The AI Admin Center opens to the home page.

    The card in the AI readiness section displays a **Start AI readiness assessment** button if the assessment has not yet been run.

    \[Omitted image "now-assist-center-home-ai-readiness.png"\] Alt text: AI readiness shown in Now Assist Center.

2.  Select **Start AI readiness assessment** to run the assessment of your instance.

    The AI readiness assessment may take several minutes to run.

    After the assessment is complete, the results display in a card showing your overall AI readiness status.

    \[Omitted image "now-assist-center-home-ai-readiness-overall.png"\] Alt text: Card showing the summary results of the overall AI readiness assessment.

3.  Re-run the overall AI readiness assessment at any time.

    1.  Select AI readiness assessment \(\[Omitted image "icon-now-assist-center-nav-readiness.png"\] Alt text: AI readiness assessment icon.\) in the side navigation bar.

        The AI Readiness Assessment tab opens.

        \[Omitted image "now-assist-center-ai-readiness-page.png"\] Alt text: AI Readiness Assessment tab showing a general assessment summary and a list of assessments.

    2.  Select **Re-run assessment**.

4.  Re-run the individual AI readiness assessment for specified area of your instance at any time.

    1.  Select AI readiness assessment \(\[Omitted image "icon-now-assist-center-nav-readiness.png"\] Alt text: AI readiness assessment icon.\) in the side navigation bar.

        The AI Readiness Assessment tab opens.

    2.  Select **View assessment** in the card of an individual assessment.

        The View Assessment tab opens showing the detailed results of a readiness assessment for the specified area of your instance.

        \[Omitted image "now-assist-center-ai-readiness-details.png"\] Alt text: View Assessment tab showing the detailed results of a readiness assessment.

    3.  Select **Re-run assessment**.

        **Note:** The label of the button includes the assessment name. In the example of running the assessment for AI Search, the button label is **Re-run AI Search assessment**.


## What to do next

Review the readiness assessments results. For more information, see [View an AI readiness assessment in AI Admin Center \(Next Experience UI\)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/view-ai-readiness-now-assist-center.md).

**Parent Topic:**[Increasing AI readiness in AI Admin Center](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/now-assist-center-using-readiness-evaluation.md)

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