Synthetic Minds | A $50K AI Readiness Diagnostic in 15 Minutes
Synthetic Minds | A $50K AI Readiness Diagnostic in 15 Minutes
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I have just launched the Intelligence Age Scorecard! It will help you understand how ready your organization is for the Intelligence Age.
Today’s topic: Intelligence Age Scorecard
A consulting diagnostic runs $30–50K and takes six weeks. I've compressed it to fifteen minutes.
The Intelligence Age Scorecard scores your organization across the WAVE framework — Watch, Adapt, Verify, Empower — then does what no consultant's deck does: it measures your readiness for the moment, two to three years out, when AI matches human performance across most knowledge work. Operational reality today, AGI preparedness tomorrow, in one report.
This isn't a personality quiz. Twenty adaptive questions, then an AI-generated analysis built for your industry, your technologies, your regulatory environment — top three gaps ranked by urgency, a sequenced 90-day plan, board-ready. It also exposes the gap most offsites never reach: the distance between where your C-suite believes you are and where your operation actually runs.
To show you the depth, I ran it on three of Australia's largest companies using only public data:
→ Telstra → Commonwealth Bank → Qantas
That's the analysis the Scorecard returns. Yours goes deeper, because you answer from inside the building, not the public record I was limited to.
When intelligence is cheap, the scarce asset is judgment. Find out exactly where yours stands.
Take the Intelligence Age Scorecard →
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Mark
Frequently asked questions
What is the Intelligence Age Scorecard?
It is a diagnostic tool that scores an organization across the WAVE framework — Watch, Adapt, Verify, Empower — to measure operational readiness today and preparedness for the point, two to three years out, when AI matches human performance across most knowledge work. It combines both assessments into a single report.
Link to this questionHow does the Scorecard compare to a traditional consulting diagnostic?
A traditional consulting diagnostic typically costs $30–50K and takes six weeks to complete. The Intelligence Age Scorecard compresses this into fifteen minutes, using twenty adaptive questions followed by an AI-generated analysis tailored to the organization's industry, technologies, and regulatory environment.
Link to this questionWhat does the Scorecard report actually include?
The report identifies the top three gaps in an organization's readiness, ranked by urgency, and provides a sequenced 90-day plan that is board-ready. It also reveals the gap between where the C-suite believes the organization stands and where operations actually run, something rarely uncovered in typical offsites.
Link to this questionWhy does judgment matter more than intelligence in this context?
As AI makes intelligence cheap and widely available, human judgment becomes the scarce and valuable asset. The Scorecard is designed to help organizations pinpoint exactly where their judgment and readiness stand, both for current operations and for the future point when AI reaches human-level performance in most knowledge work.
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Dr. Mark van Rijmenam
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker, a world-leading futurist and global AI keynote speaker who helps leaders decide what AI, and the technologies that follow it, mean for their business. He speaks to leadership teams at their retreats and to conference audiences worldwide, and his WAVE framework gives them a way of deciding that they keep using long after he has left the room. His Intelligence Age Scorecard measures how ready an organization is across the four WAVE pillars.
He holds a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney, is a Certified Speaking Professional and Global Speaking Fellow, and ranks among the world’s top futurists on the Global Gurus list (#1 in 2025, #3 in 2026). Salesforce named him one of its 16 leading AI voices. He has written six books, most recently Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change, writes the Synthetic Minds newsletter on Substack, and founded Futurwise. Talk to his digital twin on WhatsApp: +1 (830) 463-6967.
