Cross-referencing Frameworks

Breadth across the organization. Depth into the architecture.

Diagnosing where you stand today to move up the levels by working through the build sequence and instrumenting the stack.

Framework · Adoption Maturity

AI Readiness Levels.

A diagnostic that tells you where you stand today and what moving to the next level actually requires.

  1. L0
    Dormant

    No meaningful AI use.

  2. L1
    Role-level Lift

    Individual usage, ungoverned.

  3. L2
    Governed Integration

    Gateway in place. First evals. Workbenches defined.

  4. L3
    Coordinated Hybrid

    Task-node contracts running real work. World model maintained.

  5. L4
    Adaptive Autonomy

    Compounding learning across workflows. System improves overnight.

Client takeaway · "We know where we are, where we're going, and what Level 3 actually requires."

Framework · Technical Architecture

The Intelligence Stack.

Seven layers — each requiring the one beneath it. The bottom four build the world model; layers 5–6 govern execution; layer 7 compounds.

L7Compound Layer

Institutional memory, policy updates, workflow learning — the system improves overnight.

L6Evidence Plane

Traces, evals, proofs, acceptance decisions, auditable rationale.

L5Execution Layer

Agents, humans, tools, queues, workflows, APIs, systems of record.

L4Decision & Routing

Policies, authority routing, human-agent handoff rules, escalation paths.

L3Orientation Layer

Synthesis, anomaly detection, causal hypotheses, prioritization, confidence scoring.

L2Entity, Context & Memory

Canonical identity, relationship graphs, temporal state, source provenance, context distillation.

L1Signal Layer

Connectors into all sources of signal.

Client takeaway · "We know exactly what needs to be built — and where the world model lives."