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📊 Knowledge Accountability Index (KAI)

Knowledge Accountability Index
The Knowledge Accountability Index framework

Core belief: High performance is all about accountability—and that includes accountability in knowledge.

🎯 What Is KAI?

The Knowledge Accountability Index (KAI) is our framework for making knowledge measurable and actionable. Once information is systematized and available to everyone, we can measure it—and that means we can include it in performance evaluations.

How It Works

KAI describes six grades of ability and competency for any specific skill or occupation:

  • 📊 Ranges from "Fundamental Awareness" to "Expert"
  • 🗺️ Helps you plan your learning journey
  • 📈 Lets you compare your proficiency to top performers
  • 🎓 Outlines the capabilities and value expected at each level

💪 Why This Matters

KAI enables us to:

✅ Centralize understanding → Get a holistic view of technology trends and capabilities
✅ Define knowledge as performance → Make knowledge a key component of high performance
✅ Stay competitive → Anticipate and adapt to changes with a quantifiable structure

🚀 The Impact

When people are accountable for knowledge, magic happens:

  • Knowledge gets shared more efficiently and productively
  • Teams have the context they need to innovate
  • We maintain competitive advantage through smarter, faster execution
  • Everyone knows exactly what's expected at their level

With the right systems and processes in place, our employees are better equipped to do groundbreaking work.

📊 Knowledge Grade Description

This scale guides you through the expected proficiency at each grade:

This scale gives your the KAI for each framework: