Is your team using AI well, or just using AI?

The AI Diagnostic for Insight-Driven Teams

Fifteen questions across five dimensions. See whether your team is using AI for speed and rigour, or trading one for the other, and get your maturity profile in minutes.

A preview of your report

Your maturity shape across the five dimensions.

Behind the diagnostic

Built by practitioners. Validated in the field.

The framework extends an established research maturity model into an AI-specific diagnostic, then pressure-tests it against 30 interviews with research, product and design leaders across the UK, US and APAC.

30 interviews, two phases
Human and AI-moderated, with qualified practitioners and leaders.
Three regions
The UK, the US and APAC.
Tool-agnostic by design
Pressure-tested across roles, tools and organisation types.
Transparent AI disclosure
AI use is documented in full, and every finding was human-reviewed and signed off.
Emily Barnes
Founder & Principal, Carta Strategy
Certified Askable Researcher

Developed the framework and designed and oversaw the full interview programme behind it. She works with insight-driven organisations to design research programmes that inform decisions at pace.

The framework

Five dimensions, scored across five levels of maturity.

Every dimension climbs the same scale, Reactive to Leading. You'll see exactly where your team sits on each, the priority moves to level up, and how you compare to the teams we studied.

Reactive
AI is happening to your team, not with it.
Emergent
Pockets of good practice, not yet shared.
Operational
A shared baseline the whole team works to.
Strategic
Practice evolves deliberately as AI shifts.
Leading
The team others learn from.
Foundations

The rigour underneath everything.

Governance

The guardrails around AI use.

Capability

The craft of working with AI.

Integration

How AI actually shows up in your workflow.

Influence

Managing the world outside your own walls.

Optional · the full report

See how this framework plays out with real teams.

The diagnostic gives you your score. The report is the optional deep dive: how product, design and research teams across three regions actually use AI, the complete framework, and what separates teams getting real value from teams just generating noise.

The complete five-dimension, five-level framework
What we heard across 30 interviews in three regions
Where teams really land on AI maturity today
Real quotes from research, product and design leaders
Three ways to put your score to work
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Find out where your team stands.

15 questions, about 10 minutes. Your level, your priority moves and how you compare.

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