Self-serve tier · Fifteen-question core diagnostic

AI Capability Readiness Diagnostic

Most AI-readiness assessments check whether you have the artifacts of readiness: a policy, a budget, a few pilots in flight. This one measures whether your organization can metabolize hard change at all.

What the engine reads

Fifteen behavioral statements, scored against the last twelve to twenty-four months of your organization's actual life, place you on two axes. Density measures how high-challenge your environment really is: judgment formed through consequential work, not workload or tenure. Optionality measures whether the capability you build travels across functions and industries. Alumni Capital, the third pillar, does not move your position. It decides whether the position you hold compounds or leaks when people move and the work changes.

You will land in one of four quadrants: Compounding, Depth Trap, Stagnant, or Fragile. The engine then generates a resilience read in plain language: what your position means for AI absorption, what it is costing you, and what leadership owes the organization next.

This is the self-serve read: one respondent, fifteen core statements, a structured diagnosis in about seven minutes. Scores here are working hypotheses until they are triangulated.

Built by Temidayo Afonja, founder of The Density Group. Nearly two decades designing and running capability programs inside Big 4 consulting, regulated life sciences, and enterprise technology. M.S. Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy, NYU. The instrument runs on the Capability Formation Framework, her proprietary model for how organizations build capability that survives disruption.

Context · Not scored

Before the read

These inputs never move your quadrant. Three of them set the clock on the read: a weak position under heavy change pressure is in more danger than the same position with time. Two more are optional and sharpen the read if you give them.

Organization name (optional)

Sector and regulatory regime

Headcount band

AI change pressure: how fast does leadership expect AI to reshape the work?

This sets the urgency of the read. It is not a maturity score.

Mission exposure (optional, sharpens the read)

Major change in the last 24 months (optional, sharpens the read)

How your answers are handled: they exist to generate your read, in this session. If you request the written report, your email and your quadrant enroll you in the follow-up for your position. Nothing else leaves this page, and honest answers are the only kind worth scoring.

0 of 15 answered

Score each statement against the last twelve to twenty-four months of your organization's actual life, not the organization you intend to become. Five statements per pillar, three pillars.