Regional AI adoption intelligence. Live and evidenced.
Invite the businesses in your region, benchmark AI readiness by sector and borough, and turn the growth plans they receive into a live evidence base for your next funding cycle. Built on Microsoft Azure. Governed by humans.
Human oversight · Tamper-evident audit · UK-built
Dedicated growth-team assessments
Benchmarked Digital Score
AI tools in the Growth Coach
Authority, council and business tenancy
What your authority gets
A programme that delivers, not just a survey.
Every business you assess receives real support, and every assessment feeds your regional evidence base.
Live regional dashboard
See the businesses in your region and their readiness update live as they complete their Digital Score, with analytics by sector, adoption stage, readiness band and business size.
Sector and borough intelligence
Filter by sector, size, postcode, borough and readiness tier to find where support will have the most impact.
Council-level views
A combined-authority view over your constituent councils, with council-level access scoped through a proper tenancy hierarchy.
Growth plan delivery
Every assessed business receives a personalised 30, 60 and 90-day AI growth plan, so your programme delivers real support, not just a survey.
Intervention tracking
Track readiness over time and connect movement to the programmes, funding and training you deliver.
Outcomes evidence
Aggregated, benchmarked evidence you can put in front of boards and funders for the next funding cycle.
Regional intelligence
Your region's AI readiness, on one live dashboard.
Readiness updates as businesses complete their Digital Score. Filter and segment to find where support will land best.
- Sector and adoption-stage distributions
- Readiness-band and business-size breakdowns
- Adoption trends over time
- Council-level scoping across your region
Individual businesses and their readiness, with aggregated analytics on top
Built for your teams
Assessments made for the public sector.
Alongside the business AI readiness assessment, your own growth teams have dedicated assessments, each with five dimensions and fifteen questions.
Combined Authority Growth Teams
Five dimensions
- Strategic Coordination
- Programme Reach and Scale
- Data and Measurement
- Skills Ecosystem
- SME Engagement
Readiness tiers: AI Inactive · AI Emerging · AI Building · AI Scaling · AI Benchmark
Council Growth Teams
Five dimensions
- Local AI Strategy
- Business Engagement
- Digital Infrastructure
- Skills and Workforce
- Data and Accountability
Readiness tiers: AI Absent · AI Starting · AI Developing · AI Progressing · AI Pioneer
The value exchange
Businesses get a plan. You get the intelligence.
Every business you invite completes an assessment, and you see their score and progress, with aggregated analytics across sectors and boroughs.
Businesses get
- An AI readiness Digital Score in about 12 to 15 minutes
- A personalised 30, 60 and 90-day AI growth plan
- Matched funding and training recommendations
- An AI Growth Coach grounded in their own data
- Benchmarking against sector and regional peers
Authorities get
- A live dashboard of assessed businesses and their readiness
- Sector, borough and business-size analytics
- Intervention tracking and progress over time
- Dedicated growth-team readiness assessments
- An evidence base aligned to your reporting
Governance and security
Accountable AI, built for public scrutiny.
We integrate the Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP) so a human stays accountable for every decision the platform makes.
Tamper-evident audit
Every AI decision is written to a SHA-256 hash-chained record that can be verified and exported. Any change breaks the chain.
Human oversight
A graduated ladder runs AI in shadow, supervised or autonomous mode, with human approval, override and promotion by evidence.
Transparency
Every AI output discloses the model, task, confidence and mode.
Assessment Builder
Not just our assessment. Build your own.
Beyond the Digital Score, your admins can build assessments of their own, with their own dimensions, criteria and weighting. Keep one inside your authority, share it with named councils, or push it across every council in your network.
Your dimensions, your criteria
Define the dimensions and questions that matter to you. Every question is linked to a dimension, so the score reflects your model rather than ours.
Weighting you control
Set weights per question and per dimension, and choose your own score bands and badge thresholds.
Target it, then roll it out
Aim an assessment at specific roles, keep it inside your own organisation, share it with named organisations, or push it across every organisation in your network.
Scored and benchmarked
Custom assessments run through the same scoring and benchmarking engine as the Digital Score, with results benchmarked by sector, region and size across your respondents.
Built in a four-step wizard, with no code. Assessments are versioned, so you can revise one without detaching the submissions already taken against it. Agencies and partners can build on behalf of a commissioning council, with visibility shared between both.
No code required · Versioned · Governed by role-based access
Questions
Combined authorities and councils, answered.
What does Digital Towns give a combined authority or council?
A live regional intelligence dashboard built from the AI readiness Digital Scores of the businesses you invite, dedicated readiness assessments for your own growth teams, and a growth plan delivered to every business you assess. You can see those businesses and their scores, and roll them up into benchmarked evidence of AI adoption across sectors and boroughs to target support and evidence outcomes.
What can we see about the businesses we assess?
You see the businesses you invite: who they are, their readiness and their score, rolled up into aggregated analytics by sector, adoption stage, readiness band and business size. You do not see businesses who came to Digital Towns on their own. Visibility follows the assessment you own, not the postcode a business sits in, so a business that has not accepted an assessment from you is not visible to you. Access is scoped through a combined-authority, council and business tenancy hierarchy.
How much does it cost?
Pricing depends on your region, the number of businesses you want to reach and how you plan to use the platform. Book a demo and we will talk it through with you.
Is there a dedicated assessment for growth teams?
Yes. There are role-specific assessments for Combined Authority growth teams and for Council growth teams, each with five dimensions and fifteen questions, alongside the AI readiness assessment your businesses take. Each produces a 0 to 100 score and a readiness tier.
How is the AI governed?
Every AI decision is written to a tamper-evident, SHA-256 hash-chained audit trail, and a human-oversight ladder can run AI in shadow, supervised or autonomous mode with human approval and override. We integrate the Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP), so a named person stays accountable for every decision and the evidence trail can be exported for review.
Can we build our own assessments?
Yes. A no-code Assessment Builder lets your admins create assessments with their own dimensions, questions and weighting, and set their own score bands. You can target an assessment at specific roles, keep it inside your authority, share it with named councils, or push it across every council in your network. Assessments are versioned, so revising one does not detach the submissions already taken against it.
How do pricing and procurement work?
Pricing is tailored to your region and the scale of your programme. Book a demo and we will prepare a quote and talk through the procurement route that suits your authority.
Can we run a pilot?
Yes. We are inviting combined authorities and councils to run early pilots. Book a demo and we will scope a pilot for your area.
See your region's readiness.
Book a 20-minute demo to see the regional intelligence dashboard and discuss a pilot for your combined authority or council.