LEVEL 0045%
Pre-Adopter
From pre-chat, looking for use cases to refining my prompts & generally getting familiar.
AI Adoption Level Guide
This adoption canvas sets the success path for change-management — how people progress with AI and compound their systems.
The Game (Competency)
Leverage × efficiency × effectiveness — how much real value each person produces with AI.
The Path (This Rubric)
What people ship, how they climb, how the team compounds.
Adoption Note: Someone at L1 can produce high-leverage work on a specific problem. Someone at L4 can build agents that don't move the company forward. We want to climb the rubric together — empower people to create a bigger impact than they could on their own.
How to use the Level Guide: Pick your honest baseline, aim one level up, pick one small change you can repeat this week — not a leap. Top levels are very rare, earlier levels will give you a stronger base. We are all learning to progress together.
Maturity vs. Progress
REALISED PROJECTED EMPLOYEES
Personal
Team
Agents
ORGANISATIONAL PROGRESS
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One-Off AI • Capable
People use AI one-off — copy-paste between tools. Gains real but individual; nothing builds on itself.
LEVEL 025%
Shared Knowledge • Accelerator
AI plugs into the company brain. Context flows from real systems, not copy-paste; the team queries shared knowledge.
LEVEL 031%
Shared Skills • Architect
The team builds with AI — purpose-built skills the team reaches for unprompted, multiplying output without headcount.
LEVEL 04
Autonomous Agents • Catalyst
Agents act on their own — running scheduled and event-driven workflows that advance goals without prompts.
LEVEL 05
Cross-Team Compounding • Multiplier
Agents run critical work flows & build new systems driving outcomes across teams. Impact per employee compounds at scale.
LEVEL 04 · LATER
Autonomous Agents • Catalyst
Software is cheap & personal. You ship the tool your team needs this week — in production by Thursday.
WHO THEY ARE
- Auto: AI systems get work done for you.
- The job is no longer to create outputs — it’s to build & refine the system that creates outputs you don’t need to touch.
- Every recurring task as a candidate for automation.
- Ships internal tools & systems changing how the function operates and that teams actually use.
GRADUATION CRITERIA
- Agent OS: Shipping for outcomes — shipped a system felt by ≥2 functions outside your own AND stopped touching outputs on ≥1 major workflow.
CLIMBING ACTIONS
- 60 min · Pick one high-impact skill with low-quality outputs. Add a second agent with a different role (e.g. drafter + checker).
- Practice review-vs-trust: pick ONE skill to NOT review for a week; capture deltas.
- The motion one builder ships becomes the motion the whole team runs.