01
AI Literacy
The ability to reason about what AI can and can't do — capabilities, limits, failure modes.
Level 3 · Working
Names hallucination, retrieval, reasoning; matches tool to task.
Example artifact
Shared team vocabulary.
The Competency Framework
What AILOS actually measures.
Five AI Leadership competencies. Five observable levels each. This is the rubric behind the diagnostic, the roadmap, and the fluency certificate — and the one-pager an L&D team can take to a capability conversation internally.
What level 3 looks like
The journey
Four maturity stages
From exploring the foothills to compounding at the ridgeline — every leader travels the same four stages, in order.
1
1.0–1.9
Exploring
AI is a curiosity, not part of how the team works.
2
2.0–2.9
Adopting
Pockets of use; no shared bar or shared library yet.
3
3.0–3.9
Integrating
AI is a default step in most repeatable work; review gates exist.
4
4.0–5.0
Compounding
Capability is measurably more advanced quarter over quarter.
The five vectors
Click any level to see what it looks like in the wild.
Every competency moves through the same five levels. The behavior is observable; the artifact is the evidence.
02
Workflow Integration
How deeply AI is embedded in daily work versus run as a side experiment.
Level 3 · Embedded (1–2 workflows)
AI is a default step in at least one repeatable workflow.
Example artifact
One documented AI-in-the-loop SOP.
03
Trust & Verification
How rigorously the team verifies AI output — neither rubber-stamping nor reflexively dismissing.
Level 3 · Reviewed
External-facing AI output is reviewed by a qualified person before it ships.
Example artifact
A named reviewer per artifact type.
04
Psychological Safety
Whether people can openly say AI helped (or didn't) without status loss.
Level 3 · Named
People openly say 'I used AI for this' without flinching.
Example artifact
AI use mentioned in PR descriptions, docs, demos.
05
Compounding
Whether wins, prompts, and patterns get shared and reused — or stay locked in individual heads.
Level 3 · Library
Shared place for prompts, playbooks, and patterns exists and is used.
Example artifact
Living prompt + playbook library.
Use this with your team.
Have every leader take the diagnostic, then re-assess every 90 days. The framework stays constant — what moves is the level each leader operates at, per competency. That delta is the evidence L&D takes to a CHRO.