What You Get From an AI Career Index Reading

Every output described on this page comes from an AI Career Index reading, a structural diagnosis of your working position against automation, returned in about fifteen minutes and traceable, answer by answer, back to what you told us. It is not a personality quiz and it is not a horoscope for your job. Every figure it produces points at something concrete you can act on.

This page is about what you receive. If you want the mechanics behind the numbers, how the scoring works covers the calculation in full, and Why AI Career Index explains why we read positioning structurally rather than guessing at timelines. Here we walk through each output a reading returns and what it tells you about your next move.

The 0 to 1000 AI Career Index score

The headline output is a single number between 0 and 1000. It compresses the structural dimensions of your role into one position on a shared scale, so you can see at a glance whether your work sits in exposed territory or on more durable ground. A higher score means a stronger structural position: more of your value comes from work that is hard to compress, delegate to a model, or reduce to a prompt.

The score is deterministic. Give the same answers and you get the same number, every time. It is not sampled from a model's mood on the day. Because it is built from your answers rather than your job title, two people with identical titles can land in very different places, which is exactly the point: your position is set by what you actually do, not by the label on your contract.

The authority band, from Execution to Authority

Alongside the number, the reading places you in an authority band. The bands run from Execution, where the work is largely defined by others and measured by throughput, up to Authority, where you set direction, own judgment calls, and carry accountability that a model cannot hold. The band is the qualitative companion to the score: it names the kind of position you occupy, not just its height on the scale.

Bands matter because the same score can mean different things depending on where your durable value sits. Two roles can share a number while one is protected by deep technical execution and the other by the authority to decide what gets built. Knowing your band tells you which lever is actually holding your position up, and therefore which one you cannot afford to lose.

Your primary structural constraint

Every reading isolates one dimension as your primary constraint: the single weakest structural factor dragging your position down. This is the opposite of a generic report that lists ten things to improve and leaves you to guess where to start. The reading names the one dimension that, if it moved, would move your overall position most.

This is where a reading earns its keep. Effort is finite, and spreading it thinly across every dimension is how most people waste a year. By pointing at the constraint that binds your position, the reading turns a vague sense of unease into a specific target. Everything downstream, including the plan, is organised around moving that one thing first.

Compression exposure

Compression exposure measures how much of your role can be collapsed by AI: work that can be done faster, cheaper, or with fewer people once a capable model is in the loop. It is not a doom score. It is a map of which parts of your work are becoming commodity and which parts are becoming more valuable precisely because the commodity parts are being automated away.

Seeing compression laid out changes how you read your own week. A marketing managers reading, for instance, tends to show heavy compression on drafting and reporting and far less on the judgment, positioning, and stakeholder calls that sit above the tooling. The exposure view tells you where to stop investing and where to lean in.

The 24-month dual-path projection

The reading then projects your position two years out along two paths. The first is drift: what happens to your score and band if you keep doing exactly what you do now while the tooling around you keeps improving. The second is deliberate action: where your position could sit if you move on your primary constraint over the same window.

The gap between those two lines is the whole argument for acting now. Drift is rarely flat. As models absorb more of the compressible work, standing still usually means sliding, even if your day to day feels unchanged. The dual-path view makes the cost of inaction visible and quantifies the upside of a focused response, without pretending anyone can predict the exact month a capability lands.

The sequenced 6-month acceleration plan

Finally, the reading returns a sequenced acceleration plan: a set of moves over roughly six months, ordered so that each step builds on the one before it. The plan is not a list of courses to buy. It is a sequence of position changes, each aimed at the constraint the reading identified, so your effort compounds instead of scattering.

Because the plan is anchored to your specific constraint and band, it reads differently for everyone. Someone strong on execution but capped on authority gets a different sequence from someone with broad authority and a thin durable core. If you want to see how these moves fit into a longer arc, our AI career strategy view frames the six-month plan inside a multi-year positioning path.

• •A 0 to 1000 AI Career Index score placing your role on a shared, deterministic scale
• •An authority band from Execution to Authority that names the kind of position you hold
• •Your primary structural constraint: the single weakest dimension holding your position down
• •A compression exposure map showing which parts of your work are becoming commodity
• •A 24-month dual-path projection contrasting drift with deliberate action
• •A sequenced six-month acceleration plan targeting the one dimension that moves you most

Taken together, a reading gives you something most career advice never does: a position you can see, a reason it sits where it does, and a first move that is not a guess. Every number traces back to your own answers, and every recommendation targets the one dimension that changes your position most. That traceability is the point. You do not have to trust the tool on faith, because you can follow each output back to what you said. When you are ready to see your own position, you can start your assessment and have the full reading in about fifteen minutes.

Run your structural assessment

The AI Career Index is free to take. Get your structural snapshot in 10 minutes, including your durability score, archetype, and projection.