AGENTIC READINESS INDEX
How much of your business would you actually let an agent run?
Most organisations are further ahead on ambition than on the machinery that makes ambition safe. It scores both sides, what your business has authorised and what your systems are able to do, then names the gap between them.
18 questions · about four minutes
Hub
What the business has authorised: whether there is a named unit of value, how much you would let an agent decide, and whether the organisation can absorb the change.
- Value & Ambition — Is there a defined unit of value?
- Delegation & Trust — What is the business authorised to ask of the machine?
- Change & Capability — Will humans actually work this way?
Core
What the systems can actually do: whether an agent can reach governed knowledge, act inside core systems, and be operated and proven once it is live.
- Knowledge & Data — Can an agent know what it needs to know?
- Systems & Action — Can it actually do anything?
- Operate & Prove — Can you run it, trust it, afford it, and scale it?
Hub and Core, and why both
Hub is what the business has authorised: whether there is a named unit of value with a baseline and an owner, how much decision-making you would actually delegate, and whether the organisation can absorb the change. Core is what the systems can do: whether an agent can reach governed knowledge, act inside your real systems of record, and be operated, monitored and proven once it is live.
They are scored separately because the failure modes are opposite. High Hub and low Core is authorising more than you can safely deliver, which is the fastest route to an incident. Low Hub and high Core is a capability nobody has pointed at anything that matters. The index of the two is on the page, but it is the third number, not the first.