Inquive · Organisation readiness platform
Arc.

The future won’t knock on one door.

AI, new customers and new economics are rewriting every function at once. Arc shows how ready your people are for that, role by role and level by level, with evidence rather than opinion.

Move your cursor through the arch. Click to scatter it.
9Functions
4Levels
36Tailored assessments
3Reports
Why now

Every role is being rewritten. Few organisations know who is ready.

Change used to arrive one function at a time. Now it lands on all of them together. Every strategy assumes the people can deliver it. Almost no organisation has evidence that they can.

Marketing

AI writes the content. The job becomes insight, judgement and provable return.

Tested on: customer insight, growth, marketing data.

Sales

Buyers arrive informed. Value selling replaces volume, with a copilot on every call.

Tested on: value selling, key accounts, forecasting.

Production

Automation and predictive maintenance. People supervise systems, not machines.

Tested on: safety, lean, automation readiness.

Customer care

Self-service handles the routine. People own the hard, high-emotion moments.

Tested on: service recovery, service design, loyalty.

Design

AI generates a hundred options. Taste, research and the right choice become the craft.

Tested on: research, craft, business outcomes.

Technology

From keeping systems running to building AI into how the business works.

Tested on: architecture, security, data and AI.

Finance

The close is automated. Finance becomes the partner in every big decision.

Tested on: planning, capital judgement, partnering.

Operations

Resilient supply beats cheapest supply. Disruption is planned for, not reacted to.

Tested on: supply chain, resilience, improvement.

People and HR

Work is redesigned around people and AI together, with trust held through the change.

Tested on: talent, trust, work redesign.

Last year’s performanceReadiness for the role it is becoming
A manager’s annual opinionEvidence from simulations and outcomes
Training hours completedCapability that actually changed
Headcount and costWhere capability is deep, thin or missing
One engine · three arches · 01

The organisation, as one map.

An anonymous readiness map for the CEO, CHRO and board: which functions can carry the strategy, and which cannot yet.

  • Enterprise readiness index
  • Succession cover
  • Board roadmap
One engine · three arches · 02

Every department, in focus.

An anonymous capability map for each head of function: strengths, thin spots, bench strength and where to invest.

  • Capability heatmap
  • Bench strength
  • Key-person risk
One engine · three arches · 03

Every person, a private mirror.

Where you stand, what your role is becoming and your next three moves. You own your report.

  • Readiness now and next
  • AI probability
  • 90-day action map
Why it matters

The most important number nobody is measuring yet.

Specialists · Team members · Managers

Your role is changing faster than your job description.

What you walk away with

    Four levels

    Every level is a bigger door. The test grows with it.

    Professional

    Masters the craft and uses AI to raise its quality.

    Manager

    From doing the work to multiplying it through others.

    Department leader

    From running a team to shaping a whole function.

    Enterprise leader

    From the function to the whole enterprise.

    L1 Professional
    Core 30%Functional 70%
    L2 Manager
    Core 45%Functional 55%
    L3 Department leader
    Core 60%Functional 40%
    L4 Enterprise leader
    Core 75%Fn 25%
    Try it

    Three decisions. Twenty seconds each.

    A taste of an Arc simulation for a sales manager. There is no right answer, only trade-offs. Watch the clock.

    Sales · manager level
    20
    Day 90 · 4:40 pm

    Your largest client asks for a 12% discount to close the order before the quarter ends tonight.

    What a real Arc simulation reads

    1. The choice you make, and the cost you accept with it.
    2. How your judgement holds as the clock runs down.
    3. Whether what you chose matches what you said you value.
    4. The reasoning behind it, reviewed by a trained assessor.

    This three-minute demo is illustrative and is not an assessment. A real Arc simulation runs for twenty minutes, with new information arriving mid-decision.

    Evidence

    What people say is a start. What they do is the evidence.

    Statements. Level-specific statements on how people work. Reads the self-view.20
    Simulations. Two function-specific scenarios, against the clock. Reads behaviour under pressure.40
    Verified evidence. Structured input from the manager and two peers, plus documented outcomes.25
    Cross-checks. Say–do consistency, drift under time pressure, response patterns.15
    20 40 25 15 Four sources STARTING WEIGHTS, %
    Readiness bands

    Where you stand, relative to the next door.

    A readiness score from 0 to 100 and one of four bands, with a stated confidence and a fair comparison: same function, same level.

    80–100Beyond the door

    Ready for the next level now.

    70–79At the door

    Ready in 12 to 24 months, with targeted stretches.

    55–69On the path

    Strong in the current role and building toward the next.

    Below 55Behind the curve

    The role is changing faster than the person. Support is needed now.

    AI probability

    The number every board will ask for.

    How likely is it that AI materially reshapes a role within three years? Arc puts a percentage on it for every person, then rolls it up for each department and the organisation. Explore the sample organisation.

    47%
    Material
    Whole organisation
    Sample organisation · illustrative data
    Early mover

    Low probability, high readiness. A future AI champion.

    Riding the wave

    High probability, high readiness. Ready to lead the change.

    Steady ground

    Low probability, low readiness. Build fluency early.

    Exposed

    High probability, low readiness. Reskill, redesign, or both.

    AI probability → AI readiness →
    01 · Role exposureThe share of the role’s task time AI can perform or reshape, from the task layer of the Inquive Work Atlas.
    02 · Adoption paceHow fast AI is landing in that industry and region, from the Atlas’s labour-market layer.
    03 · Personal readinessAI fluency, adaptability and learning speed, measured by Arc. Two people in the same role get different answers.
    Sample reports

    The person owns the mirror. The organisation sees the map.

    Excerpts from three illustrative reports. The company and the people are fictional.

    IndividualSample

    A trusted closer. Not yet a builder of closers.

    • Executive summary and one-page blueprint
    • Behaviour under pressure, say against do
    • AI probability and Atlas benchmark
    • A 90-day action map
    71Next role
    64%AI prob.
    94thPipeline pct.
    DepartmentSample

    Strong storytellers. Thin on data and AI.

    • Capability heatmap by level
    • Bench strength and key-person risk
    • AI probability and Atlas benchmark
    • Where to spend, ranked by impact
    66Readiness
    58%AI prob.
    22Exposed
    OrganisationSample

    Built to run. Not yet built to change.

    • Enterprise readiness index
    • Function readiness map and strategy test
    • Succession cover and cross-functional friction
    • AI probability, benchmark and board roadmap
    64Readiness
    47%AI prob.
    3Roles uncovered
    ReportThe personTheir managerDepartment headCEO, CHRO, ExCoInquive assessors
    IndividualFullIf sharedIf sharedNeverTo score
    DepartmentSummarySummaryFullFullTo prepare
    OrganisationSummarySummarySummaryFullTo prepare
    8+

    No department or level is reported below eight people.

    0

    Names or individual scores in department and organisation reports.

    Consent

    Individual results are never used for pay, exit or hiring without the person’s consent.

    Firewall

    Assessment data is never shared with any search, recruitment or third-party business.

    Begin

    Three ways through the door.

    Door 1

    One department

    One function, all four levels. See the department report before scaling.

    Door 2

    A transformation sprint

    The three functions your strategy depends on most.

    Door 3

    The whole organisation

    Every function, every level. The full enterprise readiness map.

    Twelve weeks to first reports
    Map rolesConfigureAssessCalibrateReport
    Named assessor panel

    Former function heads and CXOs, trained, certified and calibrated every cycle.

    Independent validation

    An independent review of reliability and fairness, with a published technical manual.

    A living model

    Weights and bands recalibrated every year against real outcomes.

    Consent and control

    Clear consent at every step. People can delete their data on request.