{"title":"The AI-fluency journey: generating business impact with AI","version":"0.6","url":"https://thecontrolsurface.com/compounding-capability","purpose":"Descriptive model of how professional services firms work with AI. Each level builds on the one before. The ceiling at any level is set by what's in place at the previous one. The Workflow Build Session is the method that gets a firm from L2 to L3.","risk_floor":{"name":"Getting Started: free accounts with company data","note":"If your firm doesn't yet have paid AI accounts the team uses daily, now is the perfect time to help them get started.\nWe designed the AI Executive Quick Start (2hrs) for exactly this purpose."},"levels":[{"id":"L1","name":"Foundation","consequence":"The firm has paid AI accounts that people use daily, with an IT-approved data security policy in place.","value_zone":false},{"id":"L2","name":"Power users emerge","consequence":"Your power users have built real things on their own. The rest of the firm hasn't caught up, and the wins live in each individual team member's head.","value_zone":false},{"id":"L3","name":"Codified capability","consequence":"The level a Workflow Build Session delivers. We encode your firm's context and expertise into a tested and validated AI process to execute an entire workflow end-to-end. This is where capabilities compound and real firm-level acceleration starts.","value_zone":true},{"id":"L4","name":"Visible in the numbers","consequence":"As more workflows are encoded and become AI-enhanced, the acceleration starts to show in the firm's results, not only on a few individuals' laptops. The firm wins work it couldn't have won before, cycle times shrink, and existing clients see the difference.","value_zone":true}],"next_moves":[{"floor_range":"Below Level 1 to Level 1","offer":"AI Executive Quick Start (2hrs)","url":"https://thecontrolsurface.com/consulting#offerings"},{"floor_range":"Level 2","offer":"Workflow Build Session","url":"https://thecontrolsurface.com/compounding-capability#book-build-session"},{"floor_range":"Level 3 to Level 4","offer":"Peer dialogue or referral conversation","url":"mailto:nick@thecontrolsurface.com"}]}