The Grove Foundation
The AI Ratchet Test
Every enterprise AI deployment has a structural ratchet. With every API call, your organization is either accumulating sovereign capability or deepening vendor dependency. This diagnostic measures which direction your architecture is turning.
This is not a maturity assessment. It doesn’t measure how many tokens you consume or how many pilot programs you’ve launched. It measures a single structural reality: whether your AI infrastructure is designed for enterprise leverage or permanent lock-in.
Axis 01
Portability
Can you export your operational knowledge?
Axis 02
Visibility
Can your domain experts govern the routing rules?
Axis 03
Trajectory
Are your per-unit costs and switching costs declining?
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