Introducing the AI Capability Baseline

See How Your Team Actually Uses AI

by Sam Rogers
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Introducing the AI Capability Baseline

We've learned something important from our work with organizations: teams don't need more AI training. They need visibility into what's actually happening.

Today, we're launching the AI Capability Baseline: a streamlined assessment program that gives organizations a behavioral read on their team's AI collaboration patterns in 2-4 weeks.

The Problem We Keep Seeing

Every organization we talk to has the same challenge:

  • Training completion rates are high. Employees have watched the videos, clicked through the modules, passed the quizzes.
  • Usage dashboards show adoption. People are using ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude—the tools are in the workflow.
  • But no one knows if it's working. Are people catching AI errors? Are they verifying outputs? Are they exposing the organization to risk?

The gap between "using AI" and "using AI well" is invisible to every measurement tool most organizations have.

That's what the AI Capability Baseline reveals.

What's New: Simpler Structure, Faster Results

We've simplified our organizational offering into two focused options:

Quick-Read ($3,600)

A 2-week engagement designed for teams that need baseline visibility fast.

Includes:

  • 12 participants (additional participants $200 each)
  • Cohort capability baseline report
  • Dimensional analysis across all 5 PAICE dimensions
  • Confidence gap analysis
  • 30-minute readout call with findings
  • Governance-ready format

Best for: Pilot teams, department-level visibility, compliance check-ins, budget-conscious organizations that want data before committing to larger investments.

Full Baseline ($10,000)

A 4-week engagement for organizations ready for more comprehensive and/or defensible visibility.

Includes:

  • 20-50 participants (each additional 10 participants $1000) Everything in Quick-Read, plus:
  • Dedicated intake and cohort design call
  • Extended assessment window
  • 60-minute executive readout
  • Written recommendations and action plan
  • Priority support
  • Early access to future features and preferred pricing

Best for: Cross-functional teams, regulated industries, organizations building AI governance programs, executive visibility needs.

What You Actually Get

The AI Capability Baseline isn't another survey or training module. It's a behavioral assessment that observes how your team actually collaborates with AI.

Each participant completes a 25-minute conversational assessment. It feels like a natural AI work session, not a test. PAICE observes real collaboration behaviors, including how they handle AI errors.

Your leadership receives:

  1. Cohort capability distribution — Where your team falls on the 0-1000 PAICE scale
  2. Dimensional breakdown — Performance across five dimensions: Performance, Accountability, Integrity, Collaboration, and Evolution
  3. The Confidence Gap — The difference between what your team believes they can catch and what they actually catch
  4. Governance-ready documentation — Formatted for compliance reviews, board reporting, and audit artifacts

Why This Matters Now

AI governance isn't optional anymore. The EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001—regulations are arriving. And they all require one thing: evidence that you understand how AI is being used in your organization.

Training records prove your employees were exposed to information.
Usage dashboards prove your employees are using tools.
The AI Capability Baseline proves how they're actually collaborating.

That's the evidence that matters when regulators, auditors, or board members ask: "How do you know your people are using AI responsibly?"

Privacy by Architecture

PAICE doesn't collect personal data because it doesn't need to.

  • No names, emails, or employee IDs
  • No IP addresses or device fingerprints
  • No system integrations required
  • Individuals see their own scores; organizations see cohort patterns

This isn't privacy by policy, it's privacy by design. Your compliance team will appreciate the minimal data surface.

Getting Started

The AI Capability Baseline is available now.

Option 1: Book a 15-minute conversation to discuss your team, timeline, and which option makes sense.

Option 2: Take the individual assessment yourself to experience the framework firsthand. It's free, takes about 25 minutes, and gives you a clear sense of what your team will experience. Just remember that the typical initial score on the individual assessment is between 200-400.

For Organizations Using the Founding Partner Program

If you've been following our Founding Partner Program, the AI Capability Baseline is the evolution of that offering. We've streamlined the structure based on user feedback. Key improvements include:

  • Faster time-to-value — 2 weeks instead of 4 for the Quick-Read option
  • More accessible entry point — $3,600 for smaller teams
  • Same rigor — The assessment methodology and reporting quality remain unchanged
  • Same privacy guarantees — No personal data collection, governance-ready outputs

Existing conversations and commitments are unaffected. If you have questions about your engagement, reach out.

The Visibility Gap Closes Here

Every team we assess shows the same pattern: people significantly overestimate their ability to catch AI errors. The gap between belief and behavior is where organizational risk lives—invisible to training records, usage dashboards, and self-assessments.

The AI Capability Baseline makes that gap visible.

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