SP Optima AI Capability Index™

Benchmark your AI capability

A free, five-minute self-assessment that shows where your AI capability stands today, how it compares, and where to take it next.

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The problem it solves

Using AI daily is not the same as using it well

Most teams have adopted AI faster than they have understood it. People reach for it every day, but daily use builds habit, not judgement. Frequency tells you who has opened the tool. It does not tell you who can direct it, check what it returns, or turn it into work that runs without them. You cannot develop what you cannot see, and most organisations have no clear read on where their people actually sit.

What it is

The AI Capability Index

The Index maps your AI capability across seven dimensions and five levels of practice, from Building Awareness to Leading. You answer a set of plain, first-person statements about how you actually work with AI. In about five minutes you get an overall Index score, a profile across all seven dimensions, and an AI Persona that reflects your strongest areas and your adaptation speed. There is a quick individual track and a fuller business track.

Prompting Content Data Automation Strategy Building Judgement

The skill underneath

Working well with AI is a loop of judgement

Using AI well is not about knowing this month's tools. It is a repeatable loop of judgement, and it is the part that does not go out of date.

01
Direct
Point AI at the right problem, with the context it needs.
02
Validate
Check that what it gives back actually answers the ask.
03
Verify
Test it against a second source or the real world.
04
Evaluate
Judge whether it is good enough for the decision at hand.
05
Decide
Own the call about what to do with it.

Models and features change every month. This loop does not. The Index is built around it. The Prompting, Interaction & Verification and Business Judgement & Value Realisation dimensions measure exactly these habits, so a strong score reflects judgement that holds its value as the tools move on.

Where it points

The roles work is moving toward

The Index maps your capability profile to eight future-role categories, triangulated from Microsoft, McKinsey, WEF, PwC and Gartner research. Your strongest dimensions point to the roles you could grow into, and the assessment projects your two closest-fit matches.

AI-assisted Generalist
Mainstream office workers using AI for drafting, analysis, research, communication and routine execution.
Workflow Integrator
People redesigning workflows, building repeatable AI-enabled routines, and improving team productivity.
Manager / Decision Steward
Leaders using AI for insight but retaining judgement, accountability, prioritisation and people leadership.
AI Translator
Bridge roles translating business needs into AI use cases, training, adoption, and implementation pathways.
Specialist Builder
AI engineers, automation engineers, data engineers, platform teams, and agent builders.
Governance / Risk Lead
Policy, controls, privacy, assurance, model risk, legal, audit, and responsible AI oversight.
Commercial / Relationship Lead
Sales, partnerships, client advisory, and negotiation roles where trust and human relationship remain central.
AI Operations Lead
People managing agent reliability, workflow performance, AI tooling, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

What you get

Your result, and where to take it

  • Your AI Capability Index score (1.0 to 5.0) and a full seven-dimension profile
  • Your two closest-fit future roles, mapped from your capability profile across the eight future-role categories
  • One of 63 AI Personas and 350 tailored summaries that reflects how you work and where to focus your efforts next through active learning in real-world environments
  • Your adaptation speed: how quickly you update your practice as AI changes
  • Your result, benchmarked against SP Optima's growing assessment dataset and shown like-for-like within each track
  • For teams: a shared, comparable read of where capability sits, with small-cohort protection so no individual is identifiable

Grounded in the evidence

An honest read, not an inflated one

AI capability is a meaningful predictor of performance, strongest when it is measured behaviourally and when performance depends on how capability is deployed, coordinated, and combined with the right tools, work design, and governance. The Index is built as a self-assessment for awareness and targeted development, not as a verdict on performance. It is an honest starting point: it shows you where to look, and where the next step pays back.

See where you stand

Free, about five minutes, and your result is yours to keep. Benchmark yourself, then your team.

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SP Optima AI Capability Index · live since May 2026