The outcome
v · Velocity
The rate your true position changes — measured against the destination, never the effort. A vector: speed with direction. Fifteen knots toward the wrong port is still lost.
The Instrument · the equation, read
The Instrument · how it works
It is not a metaphor.
It is an instrument.
Not a slogan.
A real measure.
Most companies treat v=d/t as a slogan. We treat it as a measuring instrument — one that fixes three things: your present position, the port your role requires, and the velocity that closes the gap between them. Here is how a reading is taken.
Most companies treat AI-readiness as a gut feel. We measure it properly — where you are now, where your role needs you to be, and the fastest way to close the gap. Here's how the assessment works.
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readings taken
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teams & organisations charted
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average gap between belief & readiness
Take a reading · choose your scale
Take a check · choose your scale
Three ways to take a reading.
Three ways to check.
Pick the scale that fits — a single leader, a whole organisation, or the business case. Each runs the same instrument; they differ only in what they read across.
Pick the scale that fits — a single leader, a whole organisation, or the business case. Same method each time; they differ only in what they cover.
01 · A leader & their team
The Captain's Test
Two minutes: are you ready to command AI? The six sightings, scored — run it across a team for a capability map.
Two minutes: how ready are you to lead with AI? Scored across six skills — run it across a team for a capability map.
Take the test →02 · The organisation
The Fleet Reading
Six axes of organisational readiness, plus the delusion gap — leadership's belief against the instrument's reading.
Six areas of organisational readiness, plus the gap between what leadership believes and what's real.
Take the reading →03 · The business case
The t-calculator
A quick, indicative reading of the hours — and the money — the instrument could give back.
A quick, indicative estimate of the hours — and the money — AI could give back.
Estimate the t → Estimate the savings →What every reading measures
Six sightings, triangulated to a fix.
Six skills, one clear picture.
Whichever reading you take, it measures the same six capabilities — each one scoring where you are now against where your role requires you to be. A navigator never fixes position from a single star; where the six sightings cross is your present fix, and the gap from there to the port is exactly what we set out to close.
Whichever check you take, it measures the same six capabilities — scoring where you are now against where your role needs you to be. Combine the six and you get your real position; the gap from there to your target is exactly what we set out to close.
I · Judgement
Tell good from bad
Can you tell strong AI output from weak — in your own domain? Do you know when to trust it?
II · Direction
Set the brief
Can you frame a problem so a system can run it — decompose the work, set the course?
III · Operation
Hold the wheel
Do it yourself
Can you actually run the tools and build, hands-on — or only commission the work?
IV · Leverage
Reduce your own t
Save your own time
Do you redesign your own workflow around it — not just delegate it downward?
V · Literacy
Know the range
Do you understand the capabilities, the limits, the cost, and the risk?
VI · Adaptation
Re-fix as it moves
Keep up as it changes
How fast do you re-learn as the tools change? Will the fix still hold a year on?
What a reading delivers
What you get
The reading, and the chart.
The result: a clear plan.
A reading is a structured diagnostic that produces one object: a displacement chart — your present fix, your chosen port, the bearing between them, and the time the instrument can remove. The chart is plotted by a navigator, not generated by a form.
Each assessment produces one thing: a clear plan — where you are now, your target, the work between them, and the time AI can remove. Put together by a person, not generated by a form.
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The sightings
The evidence
Evidence from three sources — a self-assessment, real work samples, and a live exercise on a task from your own week. The live sighting is the one that cannot be performed.
Evidence from three sources — a self-assessment, real work samples, and a live exercise on a task from your own week. The live one is the part that can't be faked.
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The fix
The read
The six sightings triangulate a present position and a required port. Displacement is the straight line between them; its bearing tells you what the work actually is.
The six skills combine into where you are now and where your role needs you. The gap between them tells us exactly what the work is.
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The chart
The plan
An engraved displacement chart, delivered. Re-taken at each standing watch, the velocity between readings becomes a line you can see — displacement closed over time.
A clear, delivered plan. Re-run each quarter, your progress becomes a line you can see — the gap closing over time.
The delivered object — a displacement chart
Under the hood · the instrument
Under the hood · the equation
How the instrument reads.
Where v=d/t comes in.
For the curious — three terms drive the mechanism, and only one of them is yours to change.
The input
d · Displacement
The straight-line gap from where you are to where you must be — direction included. Not distance, the total path travelled. Displacement, the direct measure to the port.
The variable
t · Time
The one term AI collapses. What took a team and a quarter now takes a system and a week. Reduce t, hold d, and velocity is what remains.