Free tools · Competency frameworks
Know exactly where you stand.
Four frameworks, one ladder. Every competency has five written levels, so you pick the paragraph that sounds like your week instead of guessing whether you are a three or a four. Score yourself, hold it against a real role, and see the gaps ranked.
All four are free and stay free. No sign-up, no email, no paywall halfway through. Everything runs in your browser, nothing is stored on a server, and nothing leaves the page unless you share a link.
Pick your framework
How the ladder works
One to five, the same on every framework. One means you have little understanding of it yet. Three means you do it reliably without being prompted. Five means you are the person others come to, and you are lifting everyone else’s practice while you do it.
Scoring against a written level rather than a number is the whole point. It is much harder to flatter yourself when you have to pick the paragraph that actually describes your week, and much easier to have the conversation afterwards when you and your manager are reading the same words.
Who made these
I spent 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 actually using them, not a framework I found in a book.
Fill one in and send it to me if you want a second read. I read them myself and reply.