the cloud score
A five-minute conversation about how your business actually runs today, by voice or by keyboard. You get your score on the same maturity ladder the rest of the industry uses, the one thing holding it down, and the next move. On screen, the moment you finish. Send a copy to whoever should see it.
↓ See a sample result firstthe assessment
Talk or type. Answer for how your business runs today, not how you want it to run. The score never flatters, that is the point of it.
Free. No account. No email required.
a real result
One number. The single thing most limiting your operation, stated plainly, in your own words. Shown to you the moment the conversation ends. Email a copy to yourself or your team if you want it in writing. No flattery, no rounding up.
Your binding constraint is Sight L1. Order intake lives in PDFs and email threads. The machine cannot act on what it cannot see, and it can't.
Pull order intake out of email and into a structured, retrievable record. That single move lifts Sight to L2, and the ceiling with it, putting C2 in reach within ninety days.
The score never flatters. C1 reads as C1, never "early C2." The binding constraint is stated as bluntly as the number, because the binding constraint is the invoice.
assessment categories
The conversation scores you on three axes. Every other question, which function, which tool, is texture. A smart operator can bluff "do you use ChatGPT." Nobody bluffs these.
The substrate, and a hard ceiling on everything else. An agent cannot act on what it cannot see.
Most industrial SMBs land between L0 and L2 on this axis.
Realized capability inside the Sight ceiling. The value cliff: does the machine write to the system of record, or does a human re-key everything?
Most industrial SMBs land between L1 and L2 on this axis.
A durability stamp on the number, never an average. High Action with a bus factor of one is fragile by design, and the score says so.
Most industrial SMBs land between L0 and L1 on this axis.
what we actually ask
No checklist, no "do you use AI." The interviewer reads your website first, then traces one real workflow end to end and asks where the work moves on its own, and where it stalls on a person. Every question is about the last time it actually happened.
"When a new order lands, does software read it, or does a person retype it into the system?"
"If I searched your systems for everything about one customer, would I find it, or is half of it in an inbox and someone's head?"
"Is there anywhere software writes to your system of record on its own, without a person keying it in?"
"For the thing that happens a hundred times a week, who touches it each time, and what breaks if no one does?"
"Who built the automation you rely on, and if they left tomorrow, who could change how it works?"
"When the process needs to change, is that a tweak your team makes, or a six-week ticket to a vendor?"
the composition rule
High Action on low Sight is theater. Sight is a ceiling. Action is the realized number. Extension stamps it durable or fragile.
the honesty band
Most operators come in believing C3. Most land at C1 or C2. The leader tier, four to six percent across McKinsey, BCG, and MIT, sits at C3 to C4. C5 is the frontier. C6 to C9 is thin air, organization-emergent only.
MIT CISR future-ready firms run roughly +14 net-margin points and +17 revenue-growth points above their industry average. Same headcount. That gap is what the score locates you against.
methodology
A maturity model is a 30-year-old instrument. We inherited the rules for how to build one and refused to invent a new shape. Three axes, conjunctive-floor composition, a durability stamp. None of these is our idea, and that is the point.
CMMI gave us conjunctive floors and the self-vs-audited split. SAE gave us the durability stamp. DeepMind gave us the action ladder. OECD/JRC gave us the rule against compensatory averages. We did the translation work. The instrument is not novel; the diagnosis is.
how it works
Each step earns the next. The estimation shows you the gap, the audit verifies it across your whole operation, the implementations close it.
five minutes · one conversation · one voice
discovery · every system · every voice
the engagements that raise the score
The gap between the believed score and the audited score is not a funnel trick. It is the most trusted maturity model in the world (CMMI/SCAMPI) working as designed.