What NATIVE measures.
Six dimensions, scored L0 to L4. The lowest one is where you stand, and where the roadmap starts.
N — North Star
A business goal with a number, a date and a name against it: which process, how much faster or cheaper, owned by whom. At L0 the goal is "do something with AI"; at L4 every agent traces back to a target somebody is accountable for.
A — Architecture
The state of the data and systems underneath: where each data object lives, which system leads it, whether interfaces are documented, and whether an agent could read and write without a human copying between two tools. This is the dimension that comes out lowest in most assessments.
T — Talent & Teams
Who works with the system and who is trained for it: which roles change, who reviews an agent’s output, who is allowed to intervene. Scoring high here does not mean everyone sat through a training — it means the new tasks are written into job descriptions.
I — Integrity
Traceability, approvals and data protection: whether you can reconstruct why an agent did something, who signed it off, and which data it touched. In a regulated process this has to be in place before go-live, not after.
V — Value Tracking
Whether the value case is still measured after go-live: the baseline before, the number after, and who reports it. Without the baseline there is no way to show afterwards what the rollout achieved — the most common reason one cannot be defended.
E — Execution & Scale
Operations and expansion: who owns the running system, how a failure surfaces, and what it takes to add the next use case. At L4 this is routine rather than a project.
Overall maturity equals the weakest dimension, not the average.
A company that is far along in five of six and at zero in one is at zero — which is why the roadmap starts there rather than where the work is most fun.
L0
Manual
The work runs by hand, AI does not appear in it.
L1
AI-Assisted
Individuals use tools, with no rule behind it and no effect on the process.
L2
AI-Augmented
AI sits inside the process, but the data foundation does not carry it.
L3
Agentic
Agents run, but operations, adoption and measurement are missing.
L4
Agent-Native
Agents carry whole role scopes, across units and countries.
