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AI Adoption Isn't Maturity
Mature AI use generates significant, measurable value. Immature use doesn't. StarLight scores your company, every department and every person from 0, fully human, to 5, fully automated. The score combines how much people use AI, how they use it, and what that use produces. Measured automatically from everyday AI use. First assessment in 24 hours.
Company AI Value score
2.3Assisted
moving toward Steered
Illustrative · 120-person organization
Works with every major AI tool
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ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
Microsoft Copilot
Perplexity
Grok- and more
The ladder
Six rungs, from fully human to fully automated
Each rung describes who does the work: the person, or AI. The higher the rung, the more work AI does for every minute a person puts in.
- 5AutomatedAI does the work from a trigger alone, with no input or review from them
- 4DelegatedAI does complex, multi-step work on its own between their inputs or reviews
- 3SteeredAI does the work one step at a time, with them involved at every step
- 2AssistedThey do the work and own the decisions; AI helps
- 1ConsultedQuestions, advice and learning not tied to a task they're working on
- 0UntappedNo AI use, or only personal use and waste
Company · Department · Person
One assessment for every level of your organization
See where the company stands, which departments are pulling ahead, and which people are ready to move up a rung.
By department
The score for everyone in the department
- Sales28 people3.1 Steered
- Marketing19 people2.8 Assisted
- Engineering24 people2.6 Assisted
- Finance14 people1.6 Consulted
- Operations35 people1.4 Consulted
Operations is still mostly Consulted: asking AI questions, but not yet putting it to work on their tasks.
By person
Where each person sits, and how their AI conversations spread across the rungs
- Consulted4conversations
- Assisted9conversations
- Steered14conversations
- Delegated5conversations
Next rung: Delegated. Dana already hands AI whole deliverables in five conversations out of 32.
Illustrative data from a sample 120-person organization.
Why it matters
Know where you stand before you spend more on AI
- Logins aren't valueLicences and logins tell you who opened an AI tool. The ladder tells you how much of the work AI is actually doing.
- Only productive use countsPersonal use and wasted prompts don't move anyone up the ladder. Data leaks and unsanctioned tools are reported on their own, so the fix goes to the right problem.
- One scale, every levelThe same six rungs for the whole company, each division and department, and every person, so you can compare like with like.
- Measured, not surveyedNo questionnaires or self-assessment. StarLight reads how people really work with AI, every day, across every major AI tool.
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