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Is the AI rollout actually landing?

Activation, depth, quality lift — re-baselined for your team's shape and how new the territory is.

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About this modeler

Most AI rollouts stall, and most leaders can't name why. This modeler scores activation, depth, quality lift, and value captured against a steady-state benchmark, then returns a single diagnosis — activation problem, depth problem, quality problem, or value-capture problem — each with a different fix. Use it monthly or quarterly to keep an AI initiative honest.

When to use it

  • Monthly or quarterly health check on an AI rollout
  • Board update on an AI initiative's real progress
  • Diagnosing why an AI tool isn't delivering expected ROI

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Blast radius

Reversibility

Sensitivity

Novelty

Who owns it

Owner seniority

Your numbers

Reach

Who has access, and who's actually showing up.

Depth + quality

How often active people use it, and whether their work got better.

Money

What an hour of the team is worth.

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Adoption depth score

56

The rollout is stuck — the bottleneck is skill, not the tool itself.

Catching on · the bottleneck is skill

Annual value: today / 12-mo realistic / steady-state

Pessimistic
$238,680
Realistic
$408,408
Optimistic
$663,000

Key numbers

Activation rate36%
Avg uses / active user / wk4.0
Self-reported quality lift12%
Annual value · today$238,680
Annual value · steady-state$663,000
Stall diagnosisSkill

What to do next

  1. 01

    Ship a curated prompt library tied to 3 named workflows. Make it the default starting point.

    Owner · the rollout owner
  2. 02

    Tag every seat: active, not-yet, or opted-out. Stops you confusing low usage with low intent.

    Owner · the rollout owner
  3. 03

    Re-measure activation, depth, and quality lift in 4 weeks.

    Owner · the rollout owner

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Baseline read

18/50 seats are weekly active (36% activation, vs ~60% expected for your shape). 4 uses/wk, 12% quality lift, 8 weeks in.

Depth score: 56/100 — "Catching on". Capturing $238.7K/yr today; steady-state $663K/yr. $424.3K sitting on the table.

Decent activation, thin depth. Identify the top 3 use cases that work and make them the official starter playbook.

One move: Ship a curated prompt library tied to 3 named workflows. Make it the default starting point.

Recommended process

  1. 01

    Interview the top 5 heavy users for 20 min each

    Owner the rollout owner

    Find the 3 workflows that actually pay.

  2. 02

    Turn each workflow into a copy-pasteable prompt template

    Owner the rollout owner

    Lower the activation energy from blank page to one-click.

  3. 03

    Run a 30-min team workshop using those templates

    Owner the rollout owner

    Skill diffuses fastest when paired with shipped artifacts.

  4. 04

    Re-measure depth + quality lift in 4 weeks

    Owner the rollout owner

    If depth doesn't move, you have a fit problem, not a skill problem.

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  • 18/50 active = 36% activation (expected ~60%).
  • Depth score 56/100 — "Catching on".
  • Annual value: $238.7K today vs $663K steady-state.
  • Diagnosis: skill. Decent activation, thin depth. Identify the top 3 use cases that work and make them the official starter playbook.
  • Situation: blast: med · rev: costly · sens: routine · nov: trodden · owner: mid · reviewers: 1.