The Performance Project

AI Capability Index · 2026

The AI gap isn't technical. It's human.

A free, 10-minute self-assessment of the human side of AI adoption, for HR, L&D and transformation leaders.

10 minutes to complete·30 questions across six dimensions·Don't know is a valid answer.
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What is the AI Capability Index?

The Index explores leadership and direction, governance and responsible use, tools and data access, culture and change, manager enablement, and workforce capability and work redesign.

Most AI readiness tools are built for technology leaders. This one is built for the people responsible for making AI work across the organisation — whether that sits in HR, L&D, operations, or the executive team. If you are not sure, choose Don't know. Your report identifies these visibility gaps.

Complete 30 questions

Choose the descriptions that best match your organisation today across six dimensions. It takes about 10 minutes.

Get your score

Receive your AI Capability Score (0–100), your maturity stage, and a dimension breakdown showing exactly where your gaps are.

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Your report includes an executive summary, three priority actions, dimension interpretations, selected answers and visibility gaps.

Six dimensions. One complete picture.

All six dimensions have equal weight. The Index offers a structured starting point for discussion about the human side of AI adoption.

Dimension 01

Leadership and direction

How clearly your organisation is led on AI.

Dimension 02

Governance and responsible use

How safely and responsibly AI is used.

Dimension 03

Tools and data access

Whether people have the right tools and information, and whether you can see how AI is used.

Dimension 04

Culture and change

Whether the culture supports people to change how they work.

Dimension 05

Manager enablement

Whether line managers help their teams use AI well.

Dimension 06

Workforce capability and work redesign

Whether people have the skills to use AI well and are changing how work gets done.

Built for the people responsible for making AI work

The AI Capability Index is used by anyone with responsibility for the human side of AI transformation — from Chief People Officers and L&D Directors to transformation leads, COOs, and senior HR business partners. If you need to understand where your organisation stands and what to do about it, this is for you.

Who uses this

  • Transformation and change leads
  • CEOs and executive team members
  • HR Directors and Chief People Officers
  • Heads of L&D
  • COOs and operations leads

The questions it answers

  • How AI-ready are we, honestly?
  • Where's the biggest gap between our ambition and our capability?
  • What should we focus on first?
  • Where do we need better visibility?
  • How do I make the case to the leadership team?

The Index gives you...

  • A structured score across six dimensions
  • Your maturity stage with specific next steps
  • Visibility gaps and three priority actions
  • An executive summary designed to share upward

About the methodology

Informed by recent research from McKinsey, Microsoft, the ONS and others. See our methodology.

This is a self-assessment: one person's view, intended as a structured starting point for discussion.

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