The 4-minute PROOF Scorecard

Find the first gate your AI pilot cannot clear.

Answer 17 questions across production value, reliability, ownership, operations, and failure control. You get your weakest gate, the evidence still missing, and the next decision to make.

P - PayoffWhat is this worth if it works?
R - ReachCan it touch the actual work?
O - OracleWhat defines a good output?
O - OwnerWho is accountable for the outcome?
F - FloorWhat bar must a change clear to ship?

No generic maturity grade. No vendor recommendation. Your answers are used to assess this pilot's production path.

Your result appears before any email is asked for. The gates behind this instrument are documented in the production-readiness review and the Failure Notes.

Question 1 of 2In your own words

What is the AI project that is stuck?

A sentence or two. What it does, roughly how long it has been going.

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Question 2 of 2In your own words

What do you think is stopping it?

Your read, before mine. This is the one the assessment is compared against.

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Question 1 of 17 Payoff

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Answer honestly, not aspirationally. The answer leadership wishes were true gets you a cleaner number and a worse report.

Last stepWhere to send it

Where should I send the assessment?

The report is generated when you submit. It lands in your inbox, so you can forward it to whoever is stuck owning the decision.

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Answers are kept for 24 months so they can be looked up before we speak, then deleted. They are never sold or shared, and there is no mailing list attached to this. Ask for deletion at any time.

Assessing...PROOF Scorecard

Want the reading behind the number?

You will leave knowing why it stalled and what shipping would take. That holds whether or not I ever send you an invoice.

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Scoring computed in code · Assessment written by a model

Your Readiness Index and gate scores are arithmetic, computed in code from your answers. The assessment underneath is written by a language model working from those numbers and your words, so it can be wrong.