AIRE Assessment
See how each person on your team approaches AI at work, so you can roll it out in the right order.
- 41
- Short questions in a browser chat
- 8 min
- About eight minutes per person
- 4
- Dimensions: Awareness, Initiative, Rigor, Execution
- 9
- Archetypes, written in construction language
Why it matters
The problem: tools bought, nothing changed
Plenty of contractors already pay for software their people don’t use. The tool was fine. The rollout treated everyone the same, and the people it depended on were never part of the plan.
“Technology doesn’t adopt itself. People do.”
Licenses nobody uses
The renewal shows up and someone asks whether the company is still using it.
One plan for everyone
Some people try new tools on their own. Others need proof first. A single rollout plan fits neither.
No one leading it
Without someone on the team who wants to carry the rollout, it fades after the kickoff.
Office versus field
The office adopts, the field doesn’t, and the two systems drift apart.
Who it’s for
Construction companies getting an existing team ready for AI:
- Employers planning the order of a rollout across a team they already have
- Leaders looking for a structured, voluntary conversation about who wants to lead the rollout
- Individuals who want to understand their own AI work style
Not for
- Hiring or candidate screening
- Promotion, discipline or pay decisions
- Cutoff scores or ranking people
Step by step
How it works
Six steps from invitation to a rollout plan.
Step 1: Start
An employer invites the team, or an individual starts on airenine.com.
Step 2: Answer 41 short questions
It runs as a chat in the browser and takes about eight minutes. There are no right answers and no pass mark. Pick the construction lens, so results read in the language of jobsites and crews.
Step 3: Get scored on four dimensions
Each answer feeds four self-reported dimensions:
- Awareness
- How clearly someone sees where AI fits and where it does not.
- Initiative
- How readily someone tries AI on real work without being told to.
- Rigor
- How carefully someone checks AI output before trusting it.
- Execution
- How reliably someone turns an experiment into daily practice.
Step 4: See your archetype
The pattern resolves to one of nine archetypes, the AIRE Nine. In the construction lens they carry names like Foreman-Pilot, Estimator-Analyst, Field-Steward and Skeptic-Verifier.
Step 5: Read the report
Each person keeps their own report. Employers also get a team view of how the archetypes are spread across the team.
Step 6: Use it to plan the rollout
Decide the order of the rollout, plan training, and start an honest conversation about who wants to lead it.
What you get
See a sample construction reportStrengths
How each person tends to work with AI when it goes well.
Failure modes
Where that same style can trip up, written plainly.
An implementation sequence
A suggested order for bringing AI into that person’s work.
A team view
For employers: the mix of archetypes across the team.
Guardrails
Developmental only. Never a hiring screen.
- AIRE is a developmental self-report. It describes how a person says they approach AI at work on the day they take it.
- It is not a validated measure of ability or performance, and it makes no claim to predict job performance.
- Never use it to hire, promote, discipline or set pay, including as one input among others.
Questions
Current pricing: airenine.com/pricing
How long does it take?
About eight minutes. There are 41 short items, answered as a chat in the browser.
Is it a hiring test?
No. AIRE is a developmental self-report for voluntary learning conversations. It must not be used for hiring, promotion, discipline or pay decisions.
Has it been validated?
Not yet. AIRE is a version 1.0 developmental instrument, and published reliability and validity evidence is not available.
What does it cost?
Pricing is set and published by AIRE. See current pricing on airenine.com.
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