Five minutes for a band · twenty for the whole reading

One person can now attempt what used to take a department.

The question for a leader is no longer whether the tools work. It is what your organization will attempt with them, and who will carry it.

Take the amplification check Read what changed

For two hundred years the size of an ambition was set by how many people you could put behind it. A cathedral needed a town. That price has fallen, and most companies have not re-priced anything: measured across whole organizations, the change so far is about three percent. The gap between what one person can now reach and what companies have actually banked is the opening this reading measures.

01The promise

We read what you have already attempted, carried and finished.

Not what you plan to do. What you started, who carried it, and what came of it.

Thirty-six questions, a reading from 0 to 100, six area scores and three moves, printed and dated today.

Because every answer names a dated record, the reading is checkable by anybody in the company who asks to see it.

What to do this week: take the check. Who: you, alone. How long: twenty minutes. You end up with: a dated reading. Done when: it is in front of whoever sets next quarter’s plan.

02The route

Three stages, and the first one takes an hour.

Three stages

01 One hour · free

Find where you already amplify

Take the check. It asks for work that has already happened, so the answers are facts.

Who: you, alone.

Done whenA reading, six area scores and three moves are on screen, dated today.

Then

02 Two weeks

Choose what you will attempt

List what you declined in the last two years because trying cost too much. Price one again at today’s cost.

Who: you ask, every line leader answers.

Done whenOne declined project has a new price, a named person and a start date.

Then

03 Ninety days at a time

Build the pattern into the organization

Keep the graded records, put a name against each decision, and run the next attempt off what you kept.

Who: the person who owns amplification, with each line leader.

Done whenTwo rounds sit side by side and the second one cost less.

Three stages · the first one is free

What to do this week: put the first hour in the calendar. Who: you, alone. How long: two minutes to book it, one hour to take it. You end up with: a dated reading and three moves. Done when: the hour is held, and you have read the six stages behind these three.

03An ordinary Tuesday

This is what an amplified organization looks like on a Tuesday.

Almost everyone has the tools now. Sixty-four percent of American businesses using AI have made no institutional change at all. That is the U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Trends and Outlook Survey, November 2025 to January 2026.

Six scenes from the made-up organization used across this whole site, drawn after it made the change. None of them is remarkable there.

A dozen small white craft flying in arrowhead formation above a white plane, one larger chrome craft at the head.

Many machines at once · one person at the head of them

One person ships what used to need three.

Somebody who has never built software describes what they need, and has a working version by Thursday.

A project declined two years ago starts today.

It was declined because trying cost too much. That list is re-priced every quarter now.

Real work is handed to a machine and graded.

Ten real pieces of last quarter’s work, graded against the standard already in use.

A team tries an idea before lunch and drops it by three.

Finding out took half a day and one person. Ideas that used to wait for a business case get tested instead.

A junior does real work, and a senior signs it.

Bounded work, directed by somebody new. Judgment is made this way on purpose.

A call made in March is scored in September.

It said what would happen, by when, and what would prove it wrong. Somebody reads it back.

What to do this week: pick the scene furthest from your own Tuesday. Who: you, with the leader of the area it belongs to. How long: twenty minutes. You end up with: one scene, and the name of whoever would move first. Done when: the name is written down and that person has seen it.

04The six

Six things decide how much you can attempt and finish.

Each one is settled by a record you can put on the table, never by an adjective. Every model can be rented by every competitor on the same morning. None of these six can.

Ambition

What you set out to do now, against what you would have set out to do before.

Individual reach

How far one person carries a piece of work alone, from idea to finished thing.

Working knowledge

What you know about your work, written down well enough to hand part to a machine.

Machine capacity

What actually does the work, and how freely what runs underneath can be changed.

Direction

Who chooses what gets built, and which named person answers for it.

Compounding

Whether this round makes the next one cheaper, and whether you keep what you learned.

What to do this week: name the one of the six where you could put a record on the table this afternoon. Who: you, alone. How long: ten minutes. You end up with: the area you are already strongest in, written down. Done when: you have read the record that settles each of the six.

05Your Index

The reading is one number, and it lands in one of four bands.

68A sample reading · made up

The sample the check prints reads 68, in Amplified. It is one made-up organization, used on every page here and worked through line by line. Yours is dated, kept by you, and never published.

Six area scores add into one number, with a band and a date on it.

One ceiling holds it honest. No area may read more than twenty points above Direction, because capability nobody will answer for is capability you cannot use.

0–44ManualTools are present, and they have not changed what anybody sets out to do.
45–59AssistedThe work goes faster. You can point to time saved, not to something new you attempted.
60–79AmplifiedPeople carry work that used to need a team, and it shipped. Something came off the declined list.
80–100ExpandingThe limit is ambition rather than capacity, and each round costs less than the last.

What to do this week: write down the band you expect to land in, before you take the check. Who: you, and whoever will read the number with you. How long: fifteen minutes. You end up with: a guess on paper, and how the reading is built and what each area is worth. Done when: your guess and the printed reading sit side by side.

06Straight answers

Three straight answers before you start.

It counts work, not seats.

Seats issued are a purchase order. The reading counts what those seats carried.

The reading stays yours.

It is written on your own machine, and you decide who sees it.

Things will still go wrong.

Nothing here promises otherwise. It asks whether a named person answers when they do.

AGI READY^™ is our own written test, and the reading is yours to run, keep and check.

07What protects the attempt

Four things that make a bigger attempt safe to start.

Naming one person per decision is what lets you run ten machines at once instead of one. Write down who decides, and nobody has to ask permission to start.

One name per decision. Whoever allows a decision that carries money, safety, a contract or the law can also stop it.
A supplier you could change. Your most ambitious work should not sit on a foundation you cannot replace.
The jobs where judgment is made. Keep opening them, because people become senior by doing the work.
A plan for the few places that would stop the business. Who notices, what runs instead, how long it takes, and who decides.

The last one is continuity planning, sized like the plan you already hold for power.

What to do this week: name the person who would decide, and write the name down. Who: you, with that person in the room. How long: half an hour. You end up with: one decision carrying one name. Done when: that person has said yes, in writing.

08What it costs

The prices are printed, and nobody will call you.

The check is free. The written report is $290. Keeping your reading and your record current is $1,200 a month, and every other door is printed with its price.

What to do this week: read every price on one page, and pick the one door you would open first. Who: you, with whoever holds the budget. How long: ten minutes. You end up with: one door named, at a printed price. Done when: that price is in next quarter’s plan, or you have seen what each door includes.

Six questions in five minutes. Thirty-six for the whole reading.

Take the amplification check