SIMA360 measures AI maturity across six progressive maturity levels — from Initial through Leading. Each level describes where an organization stands across all five perspectives: Strategy, Governance, Data, People, and Technology.
The goal is not to reach Level 6. The goal is to know where you are, understand what it means, and advance deliberately.
AI interest is real, but nothing yet coordinates it.
Every organization begins here. Activity is possible; consistency isn't. Success isn't a strategy document — it's narrowing a vague sense that AI matters down to the small number of specific conditions worth examining first.
Explore Level 1Multiple efforts are underway, but nothing connects them.
Multiple efforts are underway, but they're disconnected — each built on its own assumptions. The task is narrowing to the few decisions that actually matter and establishing the ownership and shared definitions that let effort start accumulating learning.
Explore Level 2Individual efforts work, but they don't generalize.
Individual efforts work and can be defended on their own terms, but they don't generalize past the context that produced them. The organization is productive in ways that don't add up — the constraint is the inability to stop work that isn't moving the organization forward as a system.
Explore Level 3Structure holds under normal conditions — the gap shows up under pressure.
Structure exists and holds under normal conditions. The gap shows up specifically when something is contested, urgent, or the world changes underneath it — the documentation looks complete, but hasn't been pressure-tested.
Explore Level 4The system is tested continuously, and what's learned changes what happens next.
The system is tested against outcomes continuously, and what's learned changes what happens next, not just what gets documented. The challenge is resisting expansion driven by capability rather than readiness.
Explore Level 5Improvement is built into how the organization operates, not applied to it periodically.
Improvement is built into how the organization operates day to day, rather than something applied to it periodically. This isn't the final destination — it's the beginning of stewardship.
Explore Level 6SIMA-Probe measures your current maturity level across all five perspectives and tells you exactly what to address next.