Introducing the P9 AI Fluency Index
One of the big challenges for many founders right now is to get their organization fully “AI-pilled”. In contrast to 1–2 years ago, it’s now very rare to have people in tech startups say that they “don’t believe in AI”, pointing to all the things AI can’t do yet. However, in many companies there’s still a massive discrepancy between the way founders (and some of the best team members) use AI compared to the rest of the org.
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We’ve created the P9 AI Fluency Index to give startup founders and CEOs a tool that helps them benchmark their company’s AI fluency. The core question is: Are most people in my company dabbling with AI tools, or has AI changed how the company builds, sells, supports, hires, operates, and allocates resources? Does AI deliver measurable productivity gains — faster throughput, lower unit cost, shorter cycle times, eliminated work categories, or new product capabilities that didn’t economically exist before?
The strongest published benchmarks include Zapier’s hiring rubric, Fin’s 2x productivity program, Ramp’s Glass platform, and Jobber’s eight-rung engineering ladder, which was inspired by this blog post. They agree that AI fluency is observable, repeatable, and measured against output, not adoption alone.
This index condenses that consensus into 6 levels (L0–L5) based on 13 questions across 5 dimensions (Culture, Talent & Workflows, Throughput, Tooling & Context, Product, and Accountability & Governance). It shouldn’t take more than 10–15 minutes to complete and gives you an overall score as well as detailed report card with more granular scores and recommendations.
Head over to www.ai-pilled.com and let me know how you’ve scored! 🙂
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