# Free AI Tools for UK Teams | Maturity Audit, ROI Calculator, EU AI Act Check | We Call Shotgun > Three free AI tools for UK businesses: an 8-minute AI maturity audit, an AI ROI calculator built on ONS and HMRC data, and a 5-minute EU AI Act Article 4 compliance check. No payment, no sales call. Source: https://wecallshotgun.com/free-ai-tools Language: en --- # Free AI Tools for UK Teams Three questions come up before any UK business commits to AI: how ready are we, what is it actually worth, and are we compliant. We built a free tool for each one. We Call Shotgun publishes three free AI tools for UK and European businesses. The **AI maturity audit** takes 8 minutes and returns a personalised report scoring your organisation's AI adoption. The **AI ROI calculator** estimates the hours and pounds a team could reclaim, using ONS salary data, HMRC employer costs and measured productivity research, with no email required. The **EU AI Act check** takes 5 minutes and returns a Red/Amber/Green verdict against the AI literacy obligation in Article 4, which has applied since 2 February 2025. All three are free, and none requires a sales call. 8 minutes · Free ## AI Maturity Audit Where has your organisation actually got to with AI, and what is holding the next step back? Scores leadership, tooling, skills, workflows and governance, then returns a personalised report. - Personalised report, €299 value, free - Built on the methodology used with L'Oréal, Essilor Luxottica and IGN - Available in English and French [Start the audit](https://wecallshotgun.com/audit) 2 minutes · No email ## AI ROI Calculator How many hours, and how much money, would your team realistically get back from AI? Built on published UK data rather than vendor projections. - ONS salaries and HMRC employer costs - Conservative, expected and optimistic bands - Typical 25-person UK team: £22,900–£91,200 a year [Run the numbers](https://wecallshotgun.com/ai-roi-calculator) 5 minutes · Free ## EU AI Act Check Article 4 of the EU AI Act has required staff AI literacy since 2 February 2025, with supervision from 3 August 2026. This check tells you where you stand. - Red/Amber/Green compliance verdict - Gap report plus downloadable PDF - Applies to UK companies operating in or selling into the EU [Check compliance](https://wecallshotgun.com/ai-act-check/) ## Where to start **Building the business case?** Start with the [ROI calculator](https://wecallshotgun.com/ai-roi-calculator). It gives you a defensible number, with its workings shown, in about two minutes. **Already decided to invest, unsure where to aim?** Start with the [maturity audit](https://wecallshotgun.com/audit). It tells you which of the five constraints is binding, which is what decides whether the next round of licences gets used. **Operating in or selling into the EU?** Run the [EU AI Act check](https://wecallshotgun.com/ai-act-check/) first. The Article 4 obligation applies regardless of how mature your adoption is, and it has been in force since February 2025. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is an AI maturity assessment? An AI maturity assessment scores how far an organisation has moved from isolated experiments to routine, governed use of AI across its teams. A useful assessment covers five things: leadership sponsorship, tooling and access, staff skills, workflow redesign, and governance. It is a diagnostic, not a procurement exercise: the output should tell you which of those five is your binding constraint, because that is what determines whether the next round of licences gets used. ### How can I evaluate my company's AI maturity for free? Our [AI maturity audit](https://wecallshotgun.com/audit) takes about 8 minutes, costs nothing, and returns a personalised report benchmarking your organisation against the methodology used with L'Oréal, Essilor Luxottica and IGN. It is available in English and French. ### How do you calculate the ROI of AI adoption? Start from hours, not licences. Take the hours a workflow consumes today, apply the loaded salary cost of the people doing it, estimate the share AI realistically removes for that specific task, then subtract tooling and training costs. The result should be expressed as a band rather than a single figure, because measured productivity gains vary widely by task type. Licence spend alone tells you nothing about return: an unused seat has a negative ROI whatever the tool costs. ### What is a realistic ROI for AI adoption in a UK team? It depends on team size and how much of the work is language-based. In our [AI ROI calculator](https://wecallshotgun.com/ai-roi-calculator), a typical 25-person UK team lands between £22,900 and £91,200 a year across the conservative and optimistic bands. The calculator is built on ONS salary data, HMRC employer costs and measured productivity research from the St. Louis Fed, Google AI Works UK and BCG, and it shows its full methodology rather than a single headline number. ### Does the EU AI Act apply to UK companies? In defined cases, yes. The EU AI Act reaches beyond the EU: it covers providers placing AI systems on the EU market regardless of where they are established, and providers and deployers outside the EU where the output of the system is used in the EU. A UK company with EU customers, EU staff or EU operations should assume it may be in scope until it has checked. This is general information, not legal advice. ### What does Article 4 of the EU AI Act require? Article 4 requires providers and deployers of AI systems to take measures to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy among the staff and other people operating those systems on their behalf, taking into account their technical knowledge, experience and training, and the context the systems are used in. The obligation has applied since 2 February 2025, with supervision from 3 August 2026. In practice it means documented, role-appropriate training rather than a one-off all-hands briefing. ### Are these AI tools really free? Yes. All three are free to use and none of them requires payment or a sales call. The AI ROI calculator asks for no email at all. The AI maturity audit and the EU AI Act check return a personalised report, so they ask where to send it. ### Which free AI tool should I start with? If you are building the business case, start with the AI ROI calculator: it gives you a defensible number in about two minutes. If you have already decided to invest and need to know where to aim, start with the AI maturity audit. If your organisation operates in or sells into the EU, run the EU AI Act check first, because the AI literacy obligation in Article 4 has applied since February 2025 and is not contingent on how mature your adoption is. ## Ran a tool and want to act on it? We help UK and French teams close the gap between the AI tools they have bought and the AI their people actually use. Bring your results to a free 20-minute call. [Book a call](https://cal.com/wecallshotgun/ai-adoption)