Free · Self-Scored · Ten Minutes
The Two Literacies Index™
Twelve statements about how you actually work alongside AI systems. Score yourself honestly — the result tells you where your judgment holds under the new load, and what to do next. No email required.
SPECBefore asking an AI system for work that matters, I write down the goal, context, constraints, and the format I need back.
SPECI state how I will verify the output before I generate it.
SPECWhen an output misses, I revise my specification rather than re-rolling and hoping.
CATCHI can name the specific ways AI output fails in my kind of work.
CATCHI audit AI-assisted work against the source or the data before it ships — not after.
CATCHI can tell when an output is fluent but wrong, without a colleague catching it first.
LOOPMy AI-assisted work follows a repeatable sequence — specify, generate, audit, save — rather than improvised prompting.
LOOPI save specifications and audited outputs that worked, and reuse them.
LOOPWhen the practice breaks for a week, I have a specific way of returning to it.
LOADA session with AI tools leaves me with more capacity for judgment, not less.
LOADI decide which tasks deserve AI involvement before opening the tool, not after.
LOADAt the end of an AI-assisted working day, I can say what I verified and what I took on trust.
How the scoring works
Each statement scores 0–3 (Never / Sometimes / Often / Always), for a total of 0–36 across four dimensions: specification (SPEC), audit (CATCH), the Loop as practice, and load management. The result lands in one of four bands:
- 0–10Exposed — the working day is absorbing AI’s cognitive load without structure. A condition, not a character flaw — and correctable, in sequence.
- 11–20Developing — pieces of the first literacy, little of the second. Most professionals score here: effort is going in, verification is not.
- 21–29Working Practice — the structure is present but breaks under load. The Loop as sustained practice is the next layer.
- 30–36Durable Practice — the discipline is installed. The leverage now is consistency across the transition, and bringing the practice to a team.
Wherever you land: lower bands are best served starting with the book and workbook; upper bands by the course — and leaders by the Executive Program. Self-scored and educational; not an evaluation of you, but of the structure around you.