95% — of AI pilots fail to deliver P&Limpact (MIT, 2025)
5 — dimensions of organizational readiness
3 min — to complete the assessment
95% — of AI pilots fail to deliver P&Limpact (MIT, 2025)
5 — dimensions of organizational readiness
3 min — to complete the assessment
What We Measure

Five Dimensions. One Readiness Profile.

Most organizations measure technology adoption —licenses purchased, features deployed, training hours logged. The ADAPT Index™ measures whether your organization can absorb what you’re deploying — the variable that actually determines the outcome. Each dimension is drawn from 120 years of evidence on what separates the survivors from the graveyard.

A — Adaptability

How quickly your organization absorbs new processes, tools, and ways of working. Not aspirational willingness to change — structural speed of adaptation. The factory that simply swapped steam engines for electric motors saw no productivity gains for decades. The factory that redesigned around electricity captured them in years. Adaptability is the difference.

D — Digital Fluency

Actual comfort and capability with digital tools across roles and levels. Not training hours logged — functional proficiency in daily workflows. When 90%+ of your workforce is using personal AI tools for work your training completion metrics are measuring the wrong thing. Digital fluency measures what people can actually do, not what a system says they’ve completed.

A — AI Anxiety

The workforce’s emotional relationship with AI and automation. Fear, uncertainty, and resistance aren’t irrational, they’re predictive. When Avon deployed its $125M system without addressing workforce anxiety, the sales force revolted and destroyed the investment. AI anxiety is the invisible force that determines adoption speed, and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. It makes it go underground.

P — Performance Identity

How deeply employees tie their professional identity to current processes. When “how I do my job” becomes “who I am,” change feels existential not operational. This is the dimension that explains why technically simple transitions meet fierce resistance, and why organizations with high-skill, high-tenure workforces often struggle most with transformation. Performance identity is the hidden variable in adoption resistance.

T — Trust in Leadership

Whether the workforce believes leadership will manage the transition with their interests in mind. Without trust, every initiative meets invisible resistance. With it, the same workforce becomes the engine of transformation. 70% of change initiatives fail and trust is the dimension that best predicts which side of that statistic you’ll land on. Trust isn’t a soft metric. It’s the hardest variable in the equation.

Your Results
A Readiness Profile Most Organizations Have Never Seen
The ADAPT Index™ delivers a scored readiness profile across all five dimensions — the kind of organizational intelligence that typically requires weeks of consulting engagement and six-figure investment. In three minutes, you’ll see what most executives discover only after the deployment has already begun to fail.
Composite Readiness Score
A single number that represents your organization’s overall readiness for AI-driven transformation, calibrated against the five dimensions that historically determine the outcome.
Dimension Breakdown
Individual scores for Adaptability, Digital Fluency, AI Anxiety, Performance Identity, and Trust in Leadership — showing exactly where strength exists and where vulnerability hides.
Radar Chart Visualization
A visual readiness profile that makes dimension imbalances immediately visible. Most organizations are surprised by where the gaps appear.
Personalized Insights
Dimension-specific observations and guidance based on your score profile. Not generic advice — targeted intelligence based on your specific readiness pattern.

Every executive who’s taken it says the same thing: “I didn’t realize we weren’t measuring this.”

Take the Assessment
13 Questions. 3 Minutes. Your Readiness Score.
Answer honestly — the value is in accuracy, not aspiration. The assessment is designed for executive-level respondents evaluating their organization’s readiness. Your results are immediate, private, and actionable.
FAQS

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the ADAPT Index™ really free?
How is this different from other AI readiness assessments?
Can I use the results with my leadership team?
What if our score is low?
Go Deeper
The Quiz Gives You the Starting Picture. The HCIR™ Gives You the Full Diagnostic.

The ADAPT Index™ tells you where to look. The Human Capital Intelligence Report™ (HCIR™) tells you exactly what’s there — department-level readiness scoring, executive alignment analysis, shadow AI heat mapping, architecture readiness evaluation, and a prioritized intervention roadmap. All delivered in 3–4 weeks. The ADAPT Index™ is the three-minute version. The HCIR™ is the enterprise-grade answer.

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