Reference catalogue
The original levels are useful, but not the main roadmap.
These 21 levels are proposed capabilities. They are not a validated industry maturity standard, and a system can progress in one pillar before another.
| Level | Capability | Meaning | Related epics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Assistant | A model helps a person plan or write code. | |
| 1 | Managed team | Several agents work on approved tasks under human direction. | |
| 2 | Reliable team | Agents coordinate claims, branches, handoffs and tests. | |
| 3 | Verified team | Delivery claims include test evidence and review. | |
| 4 | Orchestrated organisation | A coordinator keeps task state and dependencies. | |
| 5 | Elastic workforce | The factory can add or reduce agent capacity as work changes. | |
| 6 | Continuous delivery | Integrated changes move through reproducible release checks. | |
| 7 | Programmable factory | Reusable workflows can create and route dependent tasks. | |
| 8 | Economic factory | Cost, delay and capacity influence engineering decisions. | |
| 9 | Self-improving factory | The factory proposes and tests improvements to itself. | |
| 10 | Experimental product laboratory | Teams compare product hypotheses against evidence. | |
| 11 | Autonomous discovery | Agents identify product work from outcomes and limits. | |
| 12 | Competing product strategies | Different strategies are tested under comparable constraints. | |
| 13 | Autonomous venture formation | A bounded product organisation receives a charter. | |
| 14 | Autonomous venture studio | Several product lines can be explored and stopped. | |
| 15 | Full-stack organisation | Product, engineering and evaluation roles operate together. | |
| 16 | Transactional organisation | Organisations can exchange services under explicit contracts. | |
| 17 | Federated agent organisations | Several organisations coordinate through shared rules. | |
| 18 | Adaptive governance | Governance changes are themselves tested under oversight. | |
| 19 | Recursive institutional design | Institutions can propose changes to institutional rules. | |
| 20 | Mission-directed ecosystem | A wider ecosystem coordinates around a mission and accountable limits. |