Readiness levels and matrix

Readiness presets, building your own level, customising the matrix, reading reports and advancing a level.

Presets

Beyond TRL and BRL, four presets are available.

The readiness level presets

Preset	Measures
GRL — Gate Readiness Level	Progress against stage-gate criteria.
ORL — Organization Readiness Level	Whether the organisation can actually execute.
SRL — Social Readiness Level	Societal acceptance and readiness.
MRL — Market Readiness Level	Market maturity for the offering.

ORL is the one most often overlooked. Projects rarely stall because the technology is immature — they stall because nobody is staffed to run them. If a project keeps slipping without a clear technical reason, evaluate ORL.

Building your own

The builder lets you define a readiness level matching criteria your organisation actually uses — your own gate review, for instance, rather than an approximation of it.

The readiness level builder

Step	What to do
1	Open the builder.
2	Optionally start from a preset and adapt it.
3	Set the name, abbreviation and description.
4	Define each level with a name and a definition.
5	Preview and publish.
6	Assign it to a project.

Two or three sentences per level is enough for the AI to diagnose against. Precision matters more than length: a definition stating what evidence proves the level has been reached works far better than a description of the level's spirit.

Customising the matrix

Choosing which two axes the matrix displays

The matrix displays two axes at a time, TRL × BRL by default. Customize matrix switches this to any pair you have evaluated — GRL × ORL, MRL × BRL, and so on.

Pick the pair that reflects your actual bottleneck. A project blocked on organisational capacity and market timing tells you nothing new on a TRL × BRL grid.

Reading a report

Open a report from a readiness card, or from the marker on the matrix. Switch between axes with the tabs.

Each report contains the current level and phase name, an overall analysis, and a table of supporting evidence listing the specific items found and what each one demonstrates.

A readiness report with overall analysis and supporting evidence

The evidence table is the part to read closely. It shows which of your documents did the work and — by omission — which of your claims are currently unsupported.

Regenerate explanation re-runs the reasoning without re-running the assessment. Use it when a report is thin, or has misread a document.

Regenerating the explanation of a readiness report

Downloading a report

Format	Options
PDF	Standard or high quality.
Word	A .docx of the report.
PowerPoint	A .pptx of the assessment project as a whole.

Answer the readiness level

Answering the questions for the next readiness level

Step	What to do
1	On the matrix, select the level one above your current position.
2	The questions required for that level appear.
3	Answer them in the text field, and upload supporting files — the same formats as elsewhere, up to 50 MB each.
4	Submit.

Your submission is evaluated against the level's criteria, and you are told whether it meets them.

Creating a project

Create an assessment project, what each addition buys you, and how to read the result screen.

Assessment analysis

The on-demand analysis views for an assessment project, and how they differ from ideation views.