Diagnose your organization's AI maturity across the five Perspectives — behavioral evidence of how decisions actually hold up, not a checklist of what's documented
SIMA-Probe is SIMA360's maturity evaluation instrument — behavioral, not structural. Where a conventional assessment asks whether governance policies exist, whether training programs have been completed, or whether systems have been deployed, SIMA-Probe asks how those structures actually perform when a decision is contested, when data conditions change, and when the system operates under real operational pressure. Those questions produce documentation. SIMA-Probe produces evidence.
The assessment evaluates each of the five Perspectives — Strategy, Governance, Data, People, and Technology — independently against the six Maturity Levels, producing a perspective-by-perspective maturity profile rather than a single organizational score. That differentiation is the point: it reveals which perspective is currently constraining the organization's AI reliability, since the system behaves at the level of its least mature perspective, not its most advanced one. Knowing which perspective is the constraint is what makes improvement sequencing possible.
The result isn't a score to interpret on your own. Each Maturity Level determination connects directly into the Set Groundwork phase of the SIMA-Flow™ Core Cycle — triggering the entrance criteria, goals, strategies, and exit criteria SIMA-Kit™ provides for the actual level and perspective the organization is operating in.
SIMA-Probe is specifically designed to support the Assess Capabilities phase of the SIMA-Flow™ cycle. Results from SIMA-Probe directly inform:
Establishes current maturity across all five Perspectives
Triggers appropriate recommendations from SIMA-Kit™, matched to organizational readiness
Determines safe starting points from Baseline tools through Autonomous Execution systems
Identifies entrance criteria and readiness indicators for AI initiatives
Surfaces which perspective is currently the constraint — the one governing overall reliability — before advancing to higher Maturity Levels
SIMA-Probe evaluates organizational readiness across all Perspectives to determine which maturity level accurately reflects current maturity.
View the full maturity guide — what each level means across all five perspectives →
AI interest is real, but nothing yet coordinates it. Activity is possible; consistency isn't. Success here isn't a strategy document — it's narrowing general awareness down to the small number of decisions worth examining first.
Multiple efforts are underway, but they're disconnected — each built on its own assumptions, with no shared standard connecting them. Work spreads across many places without learning accumulating anywhere.
Individual efforts work and can be defended on their own terms, but they don't generalize past the specific context that produced them. The organization is productive in ways that don't add up — opportunism, not architecture, is driving outcomes.
Structure exists and holds under normal conditions. The gap shows up specifically when something is contested, urgent, or the world changes underneath it — documentation looks complete before the pressure test runs.
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.
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.
Choose the level that matches your organization's needs
The minimal viable product level, designed for small organizations, individuals exploring SIMA-Probe capabilities, or those at the Initial or early Exploring stage.
Ideal For:
Organizations conducting initial feasibility assessment, small teams (fewer than 50 people), or those seeking a quick maturity snapshot.
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Respond based on how decisions actually hold up under pressure — not what the policy says should happen
Use your constraining perspective to sequence the next improvement cycle
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