Every · AI Adoption Ladder

The Eight Levels of AI Adoption

A maturity ladder running Chatbot, Copilot, Agent with human approval checkpoints, Autopilot, Workflows, Assistant doing proactive unprompted background work, Multi-agent managing several long-running agents at once, and Orchestrator where manager agents coordinate teams of sub-agents. Its useful claim is that higher is not better: the right rung depends on how much you trust the model's accuracy and what an error costs. It places most knowledge workers at levels one to four and engineers at five to eight.