Tools designed to actively enhance human productivity and decision-making.
Dynamic support with task-specific boundaries. The human stays in the loop, but the tool does real work alongside them.
Purpose
Boost productivity and creativity
Characteristics
Dynamic support, task-specific boundaries
Examples
Co-editors
AI that helps write emails, documents, or reports alongside a person, rather than for them.
AI pair programming assistants
Tools like GitHub Copilot that suggest code as a developer writes.
Research summarizers and slide builders
Tools that condense source material or draft first-pass presentations.
Meeting note transcribers and classifiers
Tools that capture and organize spoken discussion into structured notes.
The purpose of each tool category is not to encourage the use of all tools, but to provide groupings that can be safely applied with reduced risk based on your AI Maturity Level. Using complex tools at low maturity levels is ill-advised.
SIMA-Probe measures your current maturity level and tells you which tool categories are safe to adopt next.