ASCEND · The AI Adoption Scale
What's your AI type?
Twenty-six statements, about four minutes. Find out which of 16 AI types your business is, how far AI has got in the area that matters to you, and what has to be true before you move up.
Step 1 of 3
Which part of your business matters most right now?
Pick the one you'd most like to run more smoothly. It changes some of the statements, and what we show you is possible.
Step 2 of 3
Roughly how many hours a month does the team spend on repeated work there?
The same tasks, done the same way, again and again. A rough guess is fine.
Step 3 of 3
How true is each one for your business today? Not what you're planning: what happens now.
Four opposites, sixteen types
The 16 AI types
Who started it, where AI sits, how fast it moves and how it's checked. No type is better than another. Each has a superpower, a blind spot and a next move.
The Free Spirits
AI arrived through people, and it sits beside their work.
The Makers
AI arrived through people, and some of them have built it into the work.
The Rollouts
The business brought AI in, and it sits beside the work.
The Operators
The business brought AI in and built it into how the work runs.
Types and levels
Your type is how your people use AI. Your level is how far it has got in the area you picked: Accidental, Supported, Connected, Embedded, Native or Directive. Together they spell ASCEND.
A Licence Buyer and a Conductor can be at the same level in one area and miles apart in another. That's why the quiz asks you to pick one area first.
This is a quick check on your own answers, not an assessment. The ASCEND guide explains every level, and the free ASCEND assessment looks at the real evidence with you.