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Introducing Maturity Maps — A New Way to Measure AI Adoption

April 1, 2026

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The episode introduces Maturity Maps, a framework developed by the host's companies—AIDB and Superintelligent—to benchmark AI and agent readiness across enterprises. Drawing from aggregated research, these maps assess organizations against an "on-track" line (where they should be) and reveal widespread gaps, helping companies gauge progress relative to peers without relying on outdated metrics.

Why New Benchmarks Are Needed

Current AI adoption lacks reliable maps, leading companies to misjudge their position. For instance, a firm might celebrate 30% year-over-year content output growth via AI in marketing, unaware competitors achieved 50%. Early surveys like AIDB's AI ROI benchmarking captured self-reported impacts (e.g., time savings, output increases) across eight dimensions but fell short: self-reports are imprecise, skewed toward advanced users, and ignored broader readiness factors like infrastructure and change management.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:07) **Intro to Maturity Maps** - Host introduces AI maturity maps as a new framework for measuring AI/agent readiness in companies
2 (01:06) **Need for AI Benchmarks** - Explains risks of unbenchmarked AI efforts with marketing content output example
3 (01:38) **Prior AI ROI Survey** - Recaps AIDB/Superintelligent survey on use case impacts across 8 dimensions
4 (03:34) **Limits of Traditional Research** - Critiques Gartner Magic Quadrant and capability overhang in enterprise AI
5 (04:39) **AI Opportunity Radars** - Describes visual tool organizing use cases by function and readiness (Prime, Emerging, Frontier)
6 (06:27) **AI Maturity Maps Framework** - Unveils 6 categories: deployment depth, systems integration, data, outcomes, people, governance
7 (09:04) **10 Functional Maps** - Covers customer service, engineering, IT, sales, marketing, HR, ops, finance, legal, product

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Show Notes

Today we're introducing Maturity Maps, a new framework for benchmarking AI and agent adoption across six key dimensions - from deployment depth to systems integration to people and governance. This first reference point is built on 480+ studies representing 150,000+ survey respondents from the last quarter alone -- and the results show most organizations are behind where they should be on nearly every front.

Review the maps and see where you stand: http://besuper.ai/quiz

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