Summary
AIQ™ is a measure of AI capability: how effectively a person reasons with, directs, verifies, and improves the output of AI tools. Unlike AI usage metrics, which only count whether and how often someone uses AI, AIQ measures how well they use it, and turns that into a portable, comparable credential you can put on a resume or in a hiring pipeline.
What AIQ™ actually measures
AIQ looks at the skills that separate people who get reliable results from AI from those who do not:
- Prompting and task framing, turning a vague goal into instructions an AI can act on well.
- Verification and error-catching, spotting when an AI is wrong, incomplete, or hallucinating.
- Direction and iteration, steering a model across multiple turns toward a correct, useful result.
- Judgement and ethical reasoning, knowing when to trust, escalate, or override AI output.
These map to observable behaviours, not a self-reported survey, which is what makes the score credible to employers and institutions.
How the AIQ™ score is calculated
AIQ is earned by completing real, AI-assisted tasks inside the Answerr product rather than by answering trivia about AI. The score reflects the quality of how you worked with the AI to reach a result:
- You complete structured tasks that require reasoning with an AI model.
- The interaction, how you framed, verified, and refined, is assessed, not just the final answer.
- Results are normalised into a comparable score and percentile, so a score means the same thing across people and cohorts.
The result is a portable credential. Individuals can earn a first AIQ™ for free, and institutions can measure it across a whole cohort or workforce.
Why usage metrics are not enough
Most organisations measure AI adoption, seats activated, queries per user, tools rolled out. None of that tells you whether people are getting good, safe, correct results. Two people can send the same number of prompts and produce wildly different quality of work. AIQ measures that difference.
Who uses AIQ™
- Individuals, build and prove AI capability, and stand out in hiring.
- Universities, see how students actually reason and learn with AI.
- Enterprises, measure and grow workforce AI capability.
Frequently asked questions
What does AIQ™ stand for?
AIQ is short for AI capability, a measure of how effectively a person works with AI tools, expressed as a portable, comparable score and credential.
Is AIQ the same as an IQ test?
No. IQ estimates general cognitive ability. AIQ measures a specific, learnable skill: how well you reason with, direct, and verify AI to produce reliable results.
Is AIQ free?
Individuals can earn their first AIQ™ credential for free. Universities and enterprises use paid plans to measure AIQ across cohorts and workforces.
How is the AIQ score measured?
By completing real AI-assisted tasks inside the Answerr product. The score reflects how you framed, verified, and refined the work, not just the final answer, normalised into a comparable score and percentile.
