AI in Engineering Assessment
Understand how ready your software delivery lifecycle and codebase are for agentic AI, and get a prioritised roadmap showing exactly what needs to change to adopt it safely and at scale.
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| Are your systems exposing clean, well-documented APIs that AI agents can call reliably — or are they hidden inside monolithic platforms designed for human users?
| Are you investing in AI features that aren't delivering because the underlying platform wasn't designed for machine consumption?
| Do your teams know how to design, scope, evaluate, and govern AI agents — or are you deploying tools without the engineering discipline to make them reliable?
| Have an AI mandate from your C-suite but no clear picture of what your software and data actually need to look like before agents can work safely?
| Is your data accessible, real-time, and trustworthy enough for an AI agent to act on it — or just accurate enough to report on it?
| Are your customers or investors demanding AI-powered capabilities, with no clear internal roadmap for how to deliver them safely at scale?

Generative AI has the potential to create $2.6 to $4.4 trillion in value across industries and automate activities that absorb 60–70% of employees’ time.
Source: The economic potential of generative AI, McKinsey June 2023
Are your systems exposing clean, well-documented APIs that AI agents can call reliably — or are they hidden inside monolithic platforms designed for human users?
Are you investing in AI features that aren't delivering because the underlying platform wasn't designed for machine consumption?
Do your teams know how to design, scope, evaluate, and govern AI agents — or are you deploying tools without the engineering discipline to make them reliable?
Have an AI mandate from your C-suite but no clear picture of what your software and data actually need to look like before agents can work safely?
| Is your data accessible, real-time, and trustworthy enough for an AI agent to act on it — or just accurate enough to report on it?
Are your customers or investors demanding AI-powered capabilities, with no clear internal roadmap for how to deliver them safely at scale?
Generative AI has the potential to create $2.6 to $4.4 trillion in value across industries and automate activities that absorb 60–70% of employees’ time.
Source: The economic potential of generative AI, McKinsey June 2023
DARA evaluates your organisation across the six critical areas that determine whether an AI agent investment will succeed — from the business case through to the infrastructure, data, and team capability needed to make it real.
We use Lean Product Management techniques to identify and prioritise AI agent opportunities aligned to your business strategy. For each priority use case, we define the agent's scope, tool set, inputs, outputs, and success criteria — turning a business opportunity into a designable system. Identified use cases are categorised and prioritised according to their complexity, value, and infrastructure readiness.
AI agents need to call your systems reliably, interpret responses accurately, and react to state changes in real time. We assess whether your platforms expose clean, versioned, well-documented APIs suitable for machine consumption; whether your architecture is event-driven where agents need to respond to change; and whether you have — or could implement — MCP servers to give agents structured, safe, auditable access to your systems and data.
Agents don't just need accurate data — they need accessible, real-time, agent-consumable data. We assess whether the data your priority agents need is available, structured, and trustworthy enough for autonomous action rather than just analysis. We evaluate your pipelines, data quality processes, latency characteristics, and the degree to which your data architecture can serve agents reliably at the speed and granularity they require.
Strong data governance is essential for AI agent adoption – but in an agentic context it takes on new dimensions. We assess your governance frameworks with the agent question specifically in mind: what can an agent see, what actions can it take, who authorises those actions, and how are agent decisions logged and audited? We identify gaps that could expose you to regulatory or reputational risk when agents act autonomously on your behalf.
Building AI agents is an engineering discipline, not just a tooling decision. We assess whether your teams have the capability to design, build, evaluate, and iterate on agents reliably – including prompt engineering, tool design, RAG implementation, agent orchestration, and the evaluation frameworks that tell you whether an agent is actually working safely before you put it in front of users or give it access to live systems.
We assess your organisation's readiness to execute AI agent initiatives — evaluating the knowledge, skills, and resources available across both engineering and business teams. We analyse your teams' experience with agentic AI specifically, review existing roadmaps and capacity constraints, and identify where additional expertise, training, or external partnership will be required to execute the identified use cases at the pace the business needs.
ASSESSMENT OUTPUT
You receive a single comprehensive report – specific, evidence-based, and built around your actual systems and use cases. Not a generic AI strategy document, but a gap analysis and roadmap grounded in what we found.
A scored assessment across all six pillars – showing where you are today and what the gap is to agent-ready
A platform and API gap analysis identifying the specific software modernisation work required before agents can operate reliably in your systems
A data engineering readiness report covering pipeline maturity, data quality, and the changes needed to make your data agent-consumable
A reference architecture for your top priority agent use cases – not just a recommendation for a pilot, but a blueprint for what to build
A prioritised AI adoption roadmap with a sequenced program from platform modernisation through data engineering to agent delivery – with business case and ROI framing for each phase

Alfonso Álvarez Prieto
General Manager & Founder of Scentmate by dsm-Firmenich, the world's first AI enabled fragrance platform
Short of time? Don't have the in-house capability to close the gaps the assessment identifies?
Post-DARA, Codurance can work with you to implement the roadmap – modernising the platforms that need to become agent-ready, building the data engineering foundations agents depend on, and designing and delivering the agents themselves. You'll move from assessment to agents in production faster than you could working alone.
TYPICAL NEXT ENGAGEMENTS
API redesign, event-driven architecture adoption, and MCP server implementation — making your platforms consumable by AI agents at scale.
Building the real-time, high-quality data foundations that AI agents need to act reliably on your behalf.
Designing, building, evaluating, and deploying your priority AI agents – from first prototype to production, with the engineering rigour to keep them safe.
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Data Collection: Through a series of metrics analyses and interviews, we gather extensive data on your technology landscape.
Data Collection: Through a series of metrics analyses and interviews, we gather extensive data on your technology landscape.
Data Collection: Through a series of metrics analyses and interviews, we gather extensive data on your technology landscape.
Data Collection: Through a series of metrics analyses and interviews, we gather extensive data on your technology landscape.
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Data Collection: Through a series of metrics analyses and interviews, we gather extensive data on your technology landscape.
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