The Variable

You rolled out AI. Is anything actually different?

Licenses are out, usage is up, the dashboard is green. The harder question, the one most leaders avoid: is your team getting real traction, or just using the tools because you told them to?

Here's the elephant in the room. Executives believe 76% of employees are enthusiastic about AI. Only 31% agree. That's why adoption looks healthy while returns stay flat: leaders manage a culture that lives mostly in their own read of it. This assessment measures the distance between what you believe and what your team actually experiences. That distance is the Permission Gap.

Source: HBR / BCG / Columbia Business School survey of ~1,400 US employees, 2025.

How it works
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Start with you. Answer 15 questions from the executive seat. About five minutes.
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Invite your team. Send a link. They answer six questions in 90 seconds, anonymously.
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Get the free report. Everyone sees the gap, what it's costing, and the first move to close it.

Built for executives and directors. Your answers stay on this page until you choose to see your results.

Before we start

Two quick questions, so we benchmark you against the right peers.

0 of 15 answered

Rate how true each is of your organization

Answer for how things actually are, not how you'd like them to be. Your team will answer from their seat; the distance between you is the product.

Benchmarking your answers.

Your five condition scores are being set against starting benchmarks from named research: a market median near 41 and a top quartile near 80. Most organizations land in the bottom half. These benchmarks are directional, and they're replaced by our own respondent data as it accumulates.

Anchor basis: McKinsey State of AI 2025, MIT NANDA 2025, Slack Workforce Lab 2025, Gartner 2025, BetterUp Labs 2026.

Your result, as you read it

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Your weakest condition

One caution before the report: this is your read. The average organization runs a leader-team gap of roughly 18 points, and the leader is almost always the optimist. The full report includes the link that lets your team weigh in, anonymously, in 90 seconds.

Get your full Permission Gap report

Six pages: every condition scored against the market, what the top quartile does differently, what your weakest layer is costing you, your first 30 days, and the team link that unlocks your gap.

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Your Permission Gap report