InDesign's Gridify feature seems like the perfect tool for this job, but if you try it with a multi-page document like a PDF, it seems not to work (you can only draw one frame at a time instead of a grid of them). But there are two simple tricks you can use to make the magic happen and create a grid of pages.
1. When you select your multi-page file for placing (PDF, INDD, or AI), turn on the Create Static Captions checkbox in the Place dialog box.
2. Or simply select a second file to place in addition to the multi-page document.
With either method, make sure you also select Show Import Options (or hold down the Shift key when you click Open in the Place dialog box) so you can select All pages.
Then use Gridify as normal: click and drag to define the height and width of the grid, and use your keyboard arrow keys to define the number of rows and columns.
If possible, make a grid with the exact number of pages you want to place. Then just switch to a different tool to dump either the captions or the extra file (the one that you loaded just to trick the Gridify feature into working).
If the number of pages in the document you're placing is less than the number of frames in your grid, you'll have to delete the extraneous captions/image.
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