AI-readiness is hard to measure and cultivate
Organizations lack reliable behavioral evidence of who can use AI well, learn with it, and improve over time.

We create AI-scaled, case-based simulations that reveal how people use AI, adapt to feedback, and collaborate with others under realistic workplace constraints.
Problem
Employers need to see how people frame problems, use AI, evaluate evidence, adapt to feedback, and communicate decisions in role-relevant work.
Organizations lack reliable behavioral evidence of who can use AI well, learn with it, and improve over time.
Skills are granular and changing quickly, but credentials and job histories often describe the past rather than current capability.
Communication, judgment, trust, and repair matter more in AI-mediated work, but interviews are costly and uneven signals.
Framework
Our framework separates practical AI use from the human capabilities that make AI-supported work effective, trustworthy, and learnable.
Delegate, describe, discern, and act diligently when using AI across individual and team workflows.
Build trust, communicate under pressure, repair misunderstandings, and sustain collaboration in AI-mediated work.
Pick up new skills, respond to feedback, revise strategies, and improve performance across attempts.
Design principles
Each simulation links role-relevant tasks, source materials, AI collaboration, work artifacts, and reviewer evidence into an inspectable assessment record.
Participants complete realistic, role-relevant cases with context, source materials, constraints, and deliverables.
Behavioral evidence is linked to competencies, artifacts, decisions, revisions, and rubric anchors.
AI helps generate cases, organize traces, and surface patterns while trained reviewers own interpretation.
Partners review evidence, calibrate scoring, and refine simulations through pilots and validation studies.
Six practices
Across roles, simulations follow a shared pattern: plan the work, prepare the evidence, collaborate with AI, adapt through feedback, and deliver a decision-ready artifact.
Frame the problem, constraints, intended user, and where AI should or should not help.
Give AI enough context, criteria, examples, and boundaries to support the work.
Check sources, assumptions, calculations, edge cases, and competing explanations.
Work within privacy, policy, fairness, and safety requirements.
Revise the approach when evidence, feedback, or AI errors change the path.
Explain the recommendation, tradeoffs, supporting evidence, and next steps.
Assessment evidence loop
The system is designed around visible behavioral evidence, reviewer calibration, feedback, and partner learning—not opaque scores.

Growth and validation
Simulations can support hiring and promotion, but also upskilling, internal mobility, and workforce-wide AI-readiness assessment. Participants receive feedback, try again, and show how quickly they adapt.
Role-relevant simulations show current capability with evidence reviewers can inspect.
Feedback turns assessment into a development loop for teams and internal pathways.
Repeated attempts reveal adaptation, calibration, and AI-readiness growth across cohorts.
Our team

Associate Professor; Faculty Director, Future of Learning Lab

Associate Director, Future of Learning Lab

Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations

Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics

Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science and Information Science

Associate Professor of Human Resource Studies

Professor of Information Science and Science & Technology Studies; Vice Provost for Academic Innovation

Vice Provost for External Education; Executive Director, eCornell

Master's Student in Information Science

PhD Student in Information Science

PhD Student

Undergraduate Student