Should you upskill in AI, or change your role entirely? Most people ask the wrong question first. This instrument audits your actual exposure, your domain trajectory, and your capacity to respond, before you act.
10 questions3 dimensionsExposure trajectory4 readiness signalsUpskilling type diagnosis
68% of Indian white-collar professionals expect their roles to be partially or fully automated within five years. 61% say they are considering upskilling. Only 4% have actually started. The gap between fear and informed action is where unexamined decisions live. This audit closes that gap.
What this instrument measures and the frameworks behind it
Three diagnostic dimensions:
Dimension 1: Task Composition, What does your work actually consist of? Grounded in Autor, Levy and Murnane's Task Model (2003), the most cited framework in automation research. Classifies work into routine cognitive (high automation risk), non-routine cognitive analytical (augmentable), and non-routine interpersonal (lowest risk). This is the primary predictor of displacement risk.
Dimension 2: Domain Exposure and Trajectory, Is AI already visibly reshaping your domain, and is that exposure accelerating or stable? Grounded in Frey and Osborne's Automation Probability Framework (2017) and BCG AI at Work Report (2025). Distinguishes theoretical risk from actual current exposure.
Dimension 3: Response Readiness, Do you have the fluency to upskill effectively and the adaptability to reposition if needed? Grounded in Briscoe and Hall's Protean Career Adaptability Scale (2006).
The trajectory fix: One question specifically measures whether AI impact in your domain is accelerating or stable, because a role that is safe today can become exposed within 18 months in fast-moving sectors.
What this is not: A validated psychometric instrument. A career counselling service. A guarantee of any outcome. The questions and thresholds are practitioner-designed based on referenced frameworks. Your honest answers determine the quality of the output.
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Two context questions
These calibrate the thresholds. Not scored directly.
"The question is not whether you know about AI. The question is what your role is actually made of. That is what determines whether AI changes your career or ends part of it."
-- Pranjal Sarkar
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About this instrument
The AI Readiness Audit, A1
Why I built this
Most people think about AI readiness as a knowledge problem. Learn the tools. Take the course. But the research says it is a task composition problem. What your role is made of matters more than what you know about AI.
How to use this report
The signal tells you the priority. Augment, Upskill Urgently, Reposition, and Audit First are four different problems with four different responses. The dimension cards tell you which specific gap to address first.
What not to do
Do not use this to conclude you are safe from AI disruption permanently. Do not use this to conclude you are irrelevant. Both are wrong readings. This is a snapshot, not a forecast.
This instrument does not constitute professional advice. The AI Readiness Audit is a structured self-reflection tool for informational and educational purposes only. It is not career counselling, financial advice, legal advice, or any form of professional consultation. Nothing in the results should be treated as a recommendation to take or refrain from any specific action.
No liability for decisions made. Pranjal Sarkar, this website, and any associated entities accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever for any decision, action, consequence, loss, harm, or outcome resulting directly or indirectly from your use of this instrument. You alone are responsible for the decisions you make.
Not clinically or statistically validated. The questions, scoring weights, and signal thresholds are practitioner-designed based on referenced research frameworks, Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003), Frey and Osborne (2017), Briscoe and Hall (2006). They have not been statistically validated against population norms or peer-reviewed as a composite instrument.
By completing this instrument, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this disclaimer and that you will not hold Pranjal Sarkar or any associated party responsible for any outcome arising from your use of this instrument.