A free tool · For the person who runs the place
The AI skills that actually run a business.
Not prompt tricks. The twelve things that decide whether AI makes your business money or just makes you feel behind. Daily use, judging what it gives you, knowing what is safe to put into it, and what it changes in marketing, sales, operations and finance.
Score yourself honestly against five written levels. The point is finding the ones you are quietly faking, because those are the expensive ones.
Free, and it stays free. No sign-up, no email, no paywall halfway through. It runs in your browser and nothing leaves this page unless you choose to share it.
Twelve petals, one per skill. The pale outline is where you are heading next.
What it covers
12 competencies, each with five written levels, so you are picking the paragraph that sounds like your week rather than guessing at a number.
- AI fluency
- Hands-on daily use
- Judging AI output
- Data and privacy
- Marketing and content
- Sales and customer service
- Operations and admin
- Finance and the numbers
- Picking the right problems
- Team AI upskilling
- Process redesign
- Responsible use
What you measure against
Your scores get held against the real profile of each role, so the gap you see is the gap to a job rather than to an average.
- Owner-operator, it's just me
- Owner with a small team
- Owner of a growing business
Who it is for
Owners who know AI should be doing more and keep putting it off
Anyone paying for tools nobody in the business actually opens
Owners about to spend real money on AI who want to know where the gaps are first
People who are good with AI in one corner of the business and nowhere else
What you walk away with
An honest read on twelve areas rather than a general feeling of being behind
The specific areas to fix first, ranked
A link you can send a partner or a manager so they score you too and you compare
A route straight into the six week challenge for the gaps that need practice
Who made this
I spent nearly twenty years building product teams, most recently as VP Product at the 1-800-GOT-JUNK? franchisor, and I now work with businesses and people on product, AI and careers from Vancouver. These are the levels I used to run real development conversations, refined over years of using them, not a framework I found in a book.
Fill it in and send it to me if you want a second read. I read them myself and reply.
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Use it before you spend a dollar on AI tools or consultants.
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The whole business on one page. Vision and purpose, who you serve and what you promise them, what you run on, what you are honestly weak at, the goals, the horizons, and the three things this quarter with a name against each. Built to print at A3 and hang where the team sees it.
Use it when everyone could tell you what they are doing this week and nobody could tell you why.
Build my Business MapKnow exactly where you stand.
It takes about the length of a cup of tea, and nothing is stored anywhere.