18 of 1,038 (1 in 60)
Of 1,038 UK accountancy firms audited, just 18 (1 in 60) covered all five AI-readiness basics.
What this means
Passing crawler access is not the same as being AI-ready, and this figure is the sharpest illustration of the gap. Only one firm in sixty had all the foundations an AI engine needs to cite them with confidence. The other fifty-nine are competing on a bar almost none of them have cleared.