The practical toolkit for organizations implementing QCI-QS1. From governance setup to your first Q-Risk Score in 90 days.
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QCI-QS1 defines what your quantum readiness program must produce. This guide shows you how to build it. Not conceptually — practically. The 90-day sequence tells you what to do each week. The scoring worksheet walks you through your first Q-Risk Score. The inventory examples show what a well-completed QASI row actually looks like, including the gaps and risk flags a real assessment surfaces.
Most organizations that read QCI-QS1 face the same problem: they do not know where to start. This guide removes that excuse. A team with this document, a named executive sponsor, and the willingness to be honest about what they do not know can have a credible first Q-Risk Score delivered to their board within 90 days.
This guide is free because a started program is more valuable to everyone than a perfect program that never launches. Organizations that implement QCI-QS1 with this guide are better clients, more interesting partners, and more prepared for what comes next.
A week-by-week sequence from role assignment to first board insert. Tells you what to do, who does it, and what the output should be. Designed to be achievable, not perfect.
The complete scoring worksheet with pillar weights, maturity level descriptions, evidence link columns, and the comparability control checklist. Produces a defensible first score.
Two fully completed inventory rows — a payment authorization API and an identity provider — showing realistic field values, risk flags, and the gaps a real assessment surfaces. Not sanitized for comfort.
This guide gives organizations the tools to establish a QCI-QS1 program. It does not include everything required to run one at the level QCI practitioners deliver.
Not in this guide: the assessment interview question bank that surfaces what self-assessments routinely miss; the scoring calibration methodology that corrects inflated organizational self-scores; industry benchmark data by sector; or the remediation playbooks that sequence migration work across different system types and risk profiles.
Those resources are practitioner tools, available through a QCI engagement. Organizations that want to close the gap between a compliant program and a defensible one should talk to QCI.
This guide is a companion to QCI-QS1, the published risk management standard. It assumes familiarity with the standard's requirements. If you have not read QCI-QS1, start there — it is free to download with no registration required and takes about 45 minutes to read fully.
QCI works with organizations to run calibrated assessments, benchmark scores against industry peers, and build remediation roadmaps that hold up under scrutiny.