The AI gut check · for leaders

People on your team are using AI. 

Six questions about where your organization stands with AI, who owns it, and where you need to be. You'll get an instant readout, in relative context to your market.

  • About 2 minutes
  • Not a test. A mirror.
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Your readout

Here is what your answers add up to.

A read on where you stand, and on the part you cannot see from here.

 

Simple visual across 8 CEO-critical lanes

The eight lanes a business actually runs on. Two of them your answers can already speak to. The other six are built from what your people demonstrate, component by component, which is the part a five-question check cannot reach.

 
Where do we gain and loselanes 1 to 6
 
what AI could addlanes 1 to 3
lane 1

Growth and competitive position

How do we use AI to change what we sell, and move faster than our market?
5.1 Opportunities & ROI · 5.5 Measuring impact · 1.5 AI landscape · 3.5 Role-based use
 
Needs the full baseline
lane 2

Productivity and cost

How do we get more done at the same cost, in real work?
3.1 Prompting · 3.2 Tool fit · 3.3 Workflow · 3.5 Role-based use · 5.4 Delegating · 1.3 Limits
Not covered by these questions
Needs the full baseline
lane 3

Quality of work and decisions

How do we know what AI touches is good enough to ship, file, or act on?
2.1 Evaluating outputs · 2.3 Verification · 2.4 When not to use AI · 3.4 Co-creation · 1.3 Limits
Not covered by these questions
Needs the full baseline
 
what AI could costlanes 4 to 6
lane 4

Customers and reputation

How do we keep the way we use AI from costing us trust with the people we serve?
2.2 Bias & fairness · 4.1 Accountability · 4.4 IP & attribution · 1.4 Myths
Not covered by these questions
Needs the full baseline
lane 5

Data, security and privacy

How do we keep confidential data and IP out of the wrong hands?
4.2 Privacy · 4.3 Security · 1.2 How it works · 5.2 Governance
Not covered by these questions
Needs the full baseline
lane 6

Compliance and legal exposure

How do we stay on the right side of the rules that already apply to us?
4.4 IP & attribution · 4.5 Compliance · 2.2 Bias · 4.1 Accountability · 5.2 Governance
Not covered by these questions
Needs the full baseline
 
Can we act on any of the abovelanes 7 and 8 · these two gate the six above
lane 7

Workforce readiness

How do we get our people ready to use AI on real work?
1.1 What AI is · 1.2 How it works · 1.3 Capabilities & limits · 1.4 Myths · 5.3 Adoption · 3.1 Prompting
Not covered by these questions
Needs the full baseline
lane 8

Ownership and governance

Who owns AI here, and which rules do people actually follow?
5.2 Governance · 5.5 Measuring impact · 4.1 Accountability · 5.3 Adoption
 
Needs the full baseline
from your answersfrom your people, once a reflection is in

Two of eight. That is not a shortcoming of your answers. It is the difference between what one person can report and what an organization can demonstrate. The six unfilled rows each need components from three of the five domains, which is why the business view opens only once a full reflection is in.

What you now know, and what you don't. You have a read on your stated position, your two-year ambition, and where responsibility sits. Those are real and they are yours. What you do not have is whether any of it holds when you ask the people doing the work, and whether the rest of the organization would answer as you just did.

The full baseline measures the organization itself: five domains, twenty-four components, situational questions answered person by person, in about twelve minutes each. It fills all eight lanes, and it shows you which one to start with. That is the whole point: not a score, but knowing where to begin.

Free for design-partner organizations through October 31, 2026 · teams of 10–300 · individual results stay private to each person.

From 2gnล.ME, the people-first AI maturity framework. Not a test. A mirror. Every answer here came from one person, and all of it is belief rather than demonstrated practice. Market figures are drawn from the US Census Bureau Business Trends and Outlook Survey (AI Supplement) and are placeholders pending our research pass; they count whether firms use AI, which is a different measurement from how well anyone's people handle it. Sector is self-declared. Nothing here is legal or investment advice.