Most AI maturity models sell optimism. This one tells you where you actually stand, and the next move that matters. Six levels, five dimensions, built from the inside of the CIO, CTO, and CISO seats.
AI has made knowledge infinite. What it cannot tell you is where your own organization actually sits, what to do next, and what to leave alone. Every vendor will tell you that you are behind and that their product is the cure. That is not a diagnosis. It is a sales motion.
This model is the map. An honest assessment of readiness, capability, and governance, across five dimensions and six levels, that ends in a roadmap rather than a grade for its own sake. The point is never the score. It is the next move you can actually make, and the ones you should not make yet.
Strategy, accountability, risk, and ethics that scale with the ambition instead of trailing it.
Vision & board accountability · governance charter · portfolio & agile funding · risk, compliance & audit · vendor risk · ethical AI
The data foundation AI actually runs on, governed and genuinely fit for use.
Data governance · quality & veracity · metadata & master data · architecture · accessibility & discovery · security & privacy
The people and the change, not just the technology.
AI literacy & training · change management · stakeholder & enterprise communication · transparency & escalation · fusion teams
A repeatable engine for finding, proving, and scaling AI use cases.
Use-case identification · prioritization & ROI · pilot design & execution · value realization · process reengineering
The platform, the pipelines, and the discipline to run AI in production.
Model development & training · ModelOps · platform & tooling · data infrastructure & feature stores · model & infra security · scalability, inference & FinOps
A structured self-assessment places you honestly on each of the five dimensions, not where the vendor says you are.
For each gap, the call: build the capability, buy what is solved, or borrow it and transition it in. No shelfware.
A roadmap of the specific technology, process, and governance steps to the next level, sequenced to what you can support.
Adapted for the industries where the governance and compliance bar is highest: financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail and consumer goods.
The free self-assessment. A five-minute, self-scored snapshot of where you stand across the five dimensions, with your next move. Take it now.
The AI Maturity Assessment. We apply the model to your organization: where you actually stand on each dimension, the gaps worth closing, and the roadmap to the next level, with the build, buy, or borrow call for every capability.
The GenAI Maturity Workshop. A four-hour working session for your leadership across IT, data, operations, and compliance. We ground the room in real GenAI use cases by role, run the maturity self-assessment live, set the target state, and leave with a pragmatic 90, 180, and 365-day roadmap, the dimensions to advance, and the champions to own them.
Both are independent, and pointed at what matters to the business rather than what is fashionable. See the services, or write to howard@phronia.co.
The thinking behind the model runs in the open. Read the series: the determinism trap, production avoidance, replaceability, stop counting blinks, and the governance bill comes due.