Clearbridge AI Readiness Index · 2026 Edition
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What the full assessment measures
The organization program weighs each dimension differently, with the most weight placed on the areas that most separate AI-ready organizations from the rest.
How AI investment ties to measurable business outcomes, executive alignment, and operating-model redesign.
Retrievability of institutional knowledge, data quality, protection of proprietary information, and build-vs-buy-vs-orchestrate discipline.
Role-specific AI fluency across the workforce, modern tooling adoption by engineers, and workforce redesign in response to AI leverage.
Whether the organization shares AI wins, rewards AI leverage in reviews, and has an explicit position on how AI changes roles.
Ownership of AI governance, pre-deployment evaluation, acceptable-use policy, agentic-system risk management, and regulatory readiness.
Breadth of model portfolio, production use of agents, system integration via MCP/gateways, LLMOps observability, and time-to-production for new use cases.
Grounded methodology
CARI’s governance scoring is based on the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0), the four functions of Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage. The readiness benchmark is calibrated against current industry research. Every completed assessment feeds back into CARI. We use this data in aggregate to continuously sharpen the benchmark over time.
NIST AI RMF is a voluntary framework; CARI is informed by it and does not claim NIST certification or endorsement.
Scoring
Starting line. Priorities: name an owner, approve tools, ship one measured use case.
Pockets of adoption and early wins. Needs retrievable knowledge, fluency plans, an AI council.
Production use cases, basic governance, role-specific fluency. Next: AI agents and running AI reliably in production.
Agentic workflows in production, governed model portfolio, operating model redesigned.
How it works
Create an account and jump straight into your personal fluency check.
A short set of questions about how you actually use AI today.
A personal tier and recommendations matched to where you can improve fastest.
Want the whole organization measured? Clearbridge runs the full program and builds the roadmap.
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The personal check is free and takes about 4 minutes. Organizations engage Clearbridge to assess the whole team and build a prioritized AI roadmap from the results.