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Where does your business actually fly on AI?

Most organisations don't know their real AI maturity level. They assume they're further along than they are — or further behind. AI Altitude gives you an honest reading across five dimensions in under five minutes.

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Five dimensions

What AI Altitude actually measures

Most AI assessments measure intent. AI Altitude measures operational reality — what's actually running, what's actually working, and what's actually at risk.

01

Strategy & Ownership

Does your organisation have a named owner for AI outcomes, and has leadership explicitly approved specific use cases?

02

Workflow Integration

How deeply embedded is AI in the work your team actually does day to day — not as a personal tool, but as part of how processes run?

03

Data & Tooling

Can your AI tools actually reach the data they need? Are your systems connected, or is everything still manual copy-paste?

04

Autonomy

Does any AI in your business take action without a human approving each step? For how long can it run unattended?

05

Governance & Risk

Would you know if an AI agent made a costly mistake tomorrow? Do you have written guidelines for what AI is allowed to do?

How scoring works

Your altitude is set by your weakest dimension — not the average.

A business can't be "Cruising" overall with no governance underneath it. If your AI workflow is excellent but your data infrastructure is fragmented, your effective altitude is determined by the data problem.

This weakest-link model produces a more honest, more actionable result than an average — because it tells you exactly where to focus to actually move up the curve.

Example reading
Strategy & Ownership7/8
Workflow Integration6/8
Data & Tooling3/8 ← weakest
Autonomy5/8
Governance & Risk6/8

Overall altitude: Taxiing — set by Data & Tooling, not the average.

Five altitude levels

Ground to Autopilot

Each level reflects a real operational state — not a maturity model invented for a consulting deck.

Ground

AI is a talking point

Not a tool. That's not a bad starting point — the risk is staying here for another year while competitors quietly move to Taxiing.

Taxiing

Individuals are experimenting

But there's no shared runway. The upside is real but scattered — the next step is picking one workflow and making it reliable.

Climbing

AI is embedded in workflows

Specific, recurring, with an owner. You're past experimentation — the work now is data plumbing and expanding what's already working.

Cruising

AI is doing real work

Across multiple parts of the business. Losing it would hurt. The gap at this stage is usually governance catching up to capability.

Autopilot

Agents run independently

For real stretches of time, with guardrails. Very few businesses are actually here. The work now is scaling safely, not proving it works.

The process

Four steps. Under five minutes.

01

Set context

Tell us your company size and industry. Two questions — takes ten seconds. Personalises your result.

02

Answer 10 questions

Four options each, across the five dimensions. No trick questions. No jargon. Honest answers give honest results.

03

Get your altitude instantly

Your gauge, your altitude name, and what it means for a business like yours. No email required for this part.

04

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