How Well Does Your C-Suite Leverage AI?
A scored profile across how an executive team uses AI in their own work — not how the company deploys AI to customers.
- A scored profile across 6 dimensions — see exactly where you're strong and where the gaps are.
- Your biggest opportunities, mapped to specific next moves.
- A personalized video walkthrough from Shawn (optional) — a real read on your results.
There's a gap most boards don't see. Companies invest heavily in AI for product, operations, and customer experience — and the executive team running those investments barely uses AI in their own work. Board prep is still hand-built. Memos are still drafted from scratch. Market research is still delegated to a junior analyst with a deck template. The CEO talks about AI on the earnings call and then writes the next board narrative without it.
That gap matters. The exec teams that compound an AI advantage aren't the ones with the loudest AI strategy — they're the ones where every member of the C-suite uses AI as a daily working tool, models that behavior visibly, and runs operating cadences on top of it. This assessment scores your C-suite across six dimensions in about six minutes and returns a clear leverage profile — built from 27 years of technology leadership and the same lens a fractional Chief AI Officer would bring to a working session with your executive team.
What the executive AI leverage assessment measures
Leverage is a profile, not a single number. The assessment scores six dimensions independently so you can see exactly where your C-suite is over- and under-indexing: Decision Research & Briefing (do execs use AI to prep board materials, research markets, and pressure-test competitor moves), Drafting & Communication (do they use AI to draft memos, exec comms, and board narratives — not just polish them), Strategic Pattern Recognition (do they use AI to surface patterns across financials, operations, and customer data), AI Fluency Across the C-Suite (is adoption even or are one or two execs lapping the others), Modeling Top-Down AI Discipline (do they use AI visibly enough to set the org's pattern), and Time Allocation Shift (has AI actually changed how the team spends time, or just been talked about). The final question maps the specific executive workflows where AI would pay off first.
Why C-suite AI leverage matters more than product AI
Most strategy moves start in the same place: a memo, a deck, a pre-read, a decision-prep conversation. If the C-suite doesn't use AI in those moments, the rest of the organization won't either — and the company's product AI bets get filtered through executives who don't actually understand how AI changes the work. The exec teams that pull ahead are the ones where the CEO drafts the board narrative with AI, the CFO interrogates the forecast with AI, the COO surfaces operational anomalies with AI, and the CHRO red-teams sensitive comms with AI. The shift compounds — decision throughput rises, prep time falls, and the quality bar for every artifact that leaves the executive office goes up.
What you get at the end
You'll see an overall executive AI leverage score, a band that describes where you stand (from Talking About It through Compounding Edge), a per-dimension breakdown across research, drafting, pattern recognition, fluency, modeling, and time, and a map of your highest-value executive workflow opportunities. From there you can request a personalized video walkthrough — a short, recorded read on your specific results and what a fractional Chief AI Officer engagement would do for your C-suite. No generic sales deck.
Frequently asked questions
What is an executive AI leverage assessment?
It's a structured evaluation of whether the members of a company's C-suite actually use AI in their own work — board prep, memos, market research, operating cadence, decision-making — versus only deploying AI in the company's products or operations. The score reflects top-down AI behavior, not company-level AI deployment.
How is this different from a general AI readiness assessment?
An AI readiness assessment measures whether the organization can deploy AI to customers and operations. This assessment measures whether the executive team uses AI in its own decisions, communications, and judgment. Both matter — but exec-team AI leverage is usually the lagging indicator, and the one most boards never measure.
How long does the assessment take?
About six minutes. It's 18 scored questions across six dimensions plus a final workflow-mapping question covering decision prep, executive communications, operating cadence, meeting intelligence, strategy, and personal executive leverage. Your progress auto-saves, so you can leave and resume without losing answers.
Is the assessment free?
Yes. The assessment and your scored results are completely free. You can optionally request a personalized video walkthrough of your results, which is also free.
Who is this assessment for?
It's built for CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CHROs, CMOs, CROs, and CTOs at mid-market and growth-stage companies who want a clear read on whether their executive team is leveraging AI in their own work — and where the uneven adoption inside the C-suite is holding the company back.