Career Risk · 6 min read · Oct 2026
Why AI Career Index
Stop guessing where you stand against AI
Career advice has always run on opinion: a recruiter's hunch, a coach's read, a skills list that is out of date in a month. AI Career Index replaces the guess with a fixed, rule-based reading of how well your role is positioned against automation. Same answers, same result, every time, so you can act on where you really stand instead of how the market feels this week.
Fixed rules, not a guess About 15 minutes Free to start
The problem it solves
Everyone is guessing about AI and their career.
The advice out there falls into two buckets, and neither tells you where you actually stand. Skills lists measure what you have, not how exposed you are. Coaching gives you one person's opinion that changes with the room. And the AI headlines are either doom or hype, aimed at no one in particular. What has been missing is a clear read of your own position: what holds up, what is at risk, and what to do about it.
Skills lists measure the wrong thing
A longer skills list does not tell you whether the heart of your role is exposed to AI. Exposure is about how the work is set up, not a checklist.
Coaching is a subjective guess
Two coaches give two different answers, and you cannot repeat either one. You cannot build a plan on an opinion that changes with the room.
The headlines describe no one
"AI will replace millions of jobs" says nothing about your desk. Averages hide the only number that matters: yours.
Where roles land on AI exposure
Illustrative positions
Where do you land?
Data entry
Bookkeeper
Registered nurse
Strategy lead
Highly exposedHolds up well
Every role sits in a different place, and two people with the same title often land far apart. The average describes none of them, which is exactly why the only number worth acting on is your own.
What it is
A clear, repeatable read on where your career stands.
AI Career Index scores your role across five weighted areas, Strategic Clarity, AI Adaptability, Income Leverage, Skill Resilience, and Market Alignment, and turns them into one score plus the detail that explains it. It is rule-based: no machine learning guesses your score, so the same answers always give the same result. That is what makes it something you can plan around instead of just react to.
01
Answer
You answer a set of questions about your role. About fifteen minutes, no CV upload, no guesswork.
02
Diagnose
A fixed formula scores you across five weighted areas and works out your level, your main weak spot, and your AI exposure.
03
Act
You get a step-by-step six-month plan that tackles the one area holding your position back.
See a real reading
This is what you get back.
An example result. Your score, the shape of your five areas with the weakest one marked in red, and the 24-month gap between drifting and following the plan.
AI Career Index
651
out of 1,000
35th percentile
Strategic path: +151
Transitional Integrator
Your Five Dimensions
0 to 100The shape of your profile across the five things that keep your career strong.
- Today
- After plan
Bottleneck · Plan target
Strategic Clarity
54
→
72
24-Month Projection
+174 with planWhat happens if you act on the Acceleration Plan, versus what happens if you don't.
Drift 628
Strategic 802
Today 651
What you get
Your reading, in eight concrete outputs.
The reading takes about fifteen minutes and gives you a full report. Every number traces back to your answers, and every recommendation is tied to the one area that will move your position the most.
AI Career Index Score
A single score from 0 to 1000 showing how well your role, skills, and influence are set up to hold up under AI.
Your Authority Band
Your level, from Execution up to Authority. It is the strongest clue to how much AI pressure your work will face.
The One Thing Holding You Back
The single area doing the most to hold your position back, so you know exactly where your effort will actually make a difference.
AI Exposure
How exposed your current work is to both automation and falling pay as AI keeps improving.
24-Month Projection
Two paths: where you end up if you do nothing, and where deliberate action could take you.
A 6-Month Plan
A step-by-step Acceleration Plan that tackles your weakest area first, with weekly actions you can actually do.
Your Profile Type
A short profile name, such as Transitional Integrator, that sums up your direction from your level, your risk, and the one thing holding you back.
Advanced Metrics
Deeper measures, like how much edge your position gives you and your chances of moving up a level, that break down your position beyond the headline score.
Who it's for
Individuals and the companies they work for.
For individuals
See where your own career stands, find the one thing holding you back, and get a six-month plan to fix it. Stop guessing whether your role is safe and start building on the part of your work that holds up.
For companies
See where the risk piles up across teams with a combined, privacy-safe view of your workforce. Leaders see the pattern, while every employee keeps their own result private.
Why you can trust it
Rule-based, transparent, and repeatable.
A career decision deserves a result you can check and repeat, not a prediction you have to take on faith. The scoring is rule-based, and you can read exactly how the score, the levels, and the rest are worked out on the methodology page.
Always the same
The same answers always produce the same score. No hidden AI model decides your result.
Private to you
Your own result is yours alone. Employers only ever see combined, anonymised team figures.
Traceable
Every number comes from your answers through a fixed formula you can check on the methodology page.
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Guides that expand on what the AI Career Index measures and why it is built the way it is.
"I used this before a performance review and it changed how I made my case. Instead of listing achievements, I walked in with a clear argument for a bigger role. The conversation shifted at once, and I got the step up I had been chasing for eighteen months."
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Jonathan Pierce
Director of Client Strategy · New York, USA
"My exposure to AI was low, so I thought I could relax. The forecast showed my position would still slip over the next two years if I did nothing. Protecting what you have is its own plan. I would not have seen that on my own."
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Saoirse O'Donnell
Principal Architect · Dublin, Ireland
"I usually dismiss career tools. This one is different, because the results are consistent and it shows how it reaches them. My test for anything is simple: would I trust it enough to make a real decision on it? Here the answer was yes."
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Rafael Costa
Head of Operations · Lisbon, Portugal
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