Perigon Partners AI Fluency Score
Our internal scale · 15 questions · 5 minutes

A six level scale for AI capability. A common language for the ExCo conversation.

As AI increasingly embeds itself into strategic planning and the Board and ExCo agenda, and as our own business, Perigon, was running more on AI foundations, we needed a structured way to answer the question: how AI-fluent is each of the Perigon team? And how fluent do they need to be? We built an internal six-level scale to define AI fluency for senior executives and strategists and give us a structured way of upskilling the team.

See where you sit on our scale by answering fifteen yes / no questions, which take about five minutes.

Questions15, yes or no
TimeAbout 5 minutes
ScoringFixed rule, no AI
ResultA level, 0 to 5
The scale

Six levels, and the line between using and building.

Below level three you are using AI tools. Above it you are building systems that are based on them. Crossing that line is what let us build the tools on this site, and it is why a CEO who has never attempted to build anything struggles to judge whether their technology team's roadmap is ambitious or merely busy.

0
Not engaged
No regular use.
1
Casual prompter
One question at a time, first answer accepted.
2
Intentional prompter
Directed and iterative, and still entirely inside a chat window.
3
First builder
Connected to a real system. Builds things other people use.
4
Agent designer
Multi-step systems that handle their own failures.
5
Frontier operator
Reshapes how work is organised, including where AI should not be used.
Who it is for

CEOs, Board Directors and ExCo members.

Boards are expected to be financially literate, digitally literate and conversant in corporate law. AI literacy is now arriving on that list faster than anything before it. A director does not need to build the thing, any more than they need to build the financial model, but they do need to follow what is being claimed and know which of the claims are load bearing. That requires a level of fluency in this general purpose technology, beyond conversational prompting.

Questions
Has this scale been validated?
No. We built it for ourselves and it will change as the technology evolves. Treat it as a way of structuring a conversation rather than a measurement to cite.
What do I get?
Your level, which of the five bands you cleared, what your level means, and the next thing to try. Results appear on screen straight away and the link stays live for 60 days.
Will this sell me something?
You will get your results whether or not you want to hear from us again. The marketing box is optional and unticked.
Can we do this for the whole Board?
Yes, and the collective result is the key marker of whether the people approving your AI strategy understand what they are approving. Get in touch and we can help you run a session for your Board or ExCo.

Assess your whole Board

One score starts a conversation. The collective picture across everyone who signs off your AI strategy is the marker that matters, and we can help you run a session for your Board or ExCo.

Arrange this for your Board

Almost there

Three questions about your context.

Please answer all three.

Your results

Where should we send them?

Results appear on screen immediately. We email a copy so the link is not lost.

Scoring your answers.