Everyone using AI is somewhere on this ladder, whether they’ve named it or not. A level is the rung where both halves hold - the machine’s setup and the human work it demands. Read down until one sounds like your actual week - that’s your level, and its page tells you what’s next.
“Which is closest to how you actually use AI?”
Every level on this ladder is two things at once: what artificial intelligence can do with you, and what it’s quietly doing to you. The WILDiQ self-assessment reads both sides of the equation - your AI capability and your WILD Intelligence - and returns one score, zero to six, with a written reading behind it. The number moves at the pace of its weaker half. Free, about six minutes.
Haven’t started, or tried once and bounced off. Not really a level - the on-ramp before the ladder. One free account, one real message.
Level 0 →Plain chat, fresh each time. Every conversation starts from zero, which means every answer is the average answer.
Level 1 →Saved projects, memory, instructions. This is where the Bearing File lives, and it’s the biggest single payoff on the whole ladder.
Level 2 →Files, calendar, tools. The AI can now see real parts of your life, which makes deciding what it shouldn’t see an actual skill.
Level 3 →Code, agents, skills. You start turning your own judgment into something the machine can run without you in the room.
Level 4 →A persistent agent working in the background. Loops need review rituals or they drift, quietly, on a timeline you won’t notice from inside it.
Level 5 →Several agents at once. All four pieces of human work fire together here, and knowing what only you decide becomes the whole job.
Level 6 →Most people are higher than they expect on the capability step and lower than they’d like on the human work. Start with Level 2 if you’ve never written anything down for your AI to read - it’s the single best twenty minutes on this ladder.
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