AI Illuminator is a free AI readiness check developed by Festive Road that shows how ready your programme is across the factors that matter most to successful AI adoption, including your data, your governance, how the programme runs and who makes the decisions.
Festive Road AI Readiness Check
Your AI Illuminator
Are you ready?
Know where you are, before trying to decide where to go.
Created for the Travel & Expense Buyer Community
AI and automation are rapidly becoming priorities for travel and expense programmes. The challenge isn’t usually the technology. It’s everything underneath it.
FESTIVE ROAD PULSE 2.0 · T&E BENCHMARK REPORT
If you're not sure where your programme stands, you're not alone.
Insights from over 50 travel and expense buyers · 2026 edition
Explore the Pulse 2.0 results70%
of T&E leaders are prioritising AI and automation
1 in 5
say their programme is ready for it
You'll receive:
An AI readiness profile for your programme
Insight into key strengths and gaps
Practical next steps based on your responses
A link to your personalised report, sent to your inbox
Your results will place your programme into one of three readiness stages:
STAGE 1
Getting Started
STAGE 2
Ready to Design
STAGE 3
Ready to Build
Start AI Illuminator
Know where you are, before trying to decide where to go.
Around 9 minutes · Free for the T&E buyer community.
A score is a starting point
Your report is yours to keep and use, whatever you decide next. Sometimes that’s all you need. Sometimes the more valuable conversation is what the result means for your programme.
If you’d like to explore the story behind your score, or go deeper with a diagnostic alongside your team, we’d be happy to talk. Our Roaders do the legwork, looking at the evidence behind your answers, so you get a clear, practical view of where to focus first and what can wait.
Results are based on participant responses and are intended to provide a directional view of AI readiness. Results are based on your own answers. Festive Road hasn’t validated the evidence behind them. Individual responses remain confidential and will never be shared. Any research or reporting by Festive Road will use aggregated and anonymised findings only.
Festive Road works exclusively with travel buyers.