Will your pilot survive day 91?
A twelve-question audit of the operating-model decisions that determine whether your AI pilot graduates to production or quietly disappears.
Ninety-five percent of GenAI pilots never reach production. They do not die because the models are bad. They die because four operating-model questions went unanswered before the demo: who owns this on day 91, what graduation looks like, which P&L absorbs the cost, and what integration debt the org is willing to take on. This diagnostic puts those questions, and a few others senior practitioners actually ask, in front of you. If you are sponsoring a pilot, or about to greenlight one, spend five minutes here before the next steering committee. The answers tend to clarify what the slideware obscures.
Begin the diagnostic
Twelve questions across five operating-model dimensions. About five minutes. No account required; nothing is transmitted or stored.
The diagnostic runs entirely in your browser; nothing you enter is stored, transmitted, or seen by anyone at Fulkerson.
Methodology
How the diagnostic works
Twelve questions across five operating-model dimensions: ownership and accountability, graduation criteria, P&L and budget absorption, integration and technical readiness, and measurement. Each answer carries a weight; the dimensions are not equal. Ownership and graduation criteria are weighted most heavily because they are the two failure modes we see most often inside Fortune 500 environments. The diagnostic takes about five minutes to complete and returns a score between zero and one hundred, along with the dimension where your pilot is most exposed. The scoring logic is the same one we use in our first working session with new clients.
About the diagnostic.
- How is the score calculated?
- Each question maps to one of five operating-model dimensions and carries a weight based on how often we see it predict pilot failure inside Fortune 500 programs. Ownership and graduation criteria are weighted most heavily. The total is normalized to a zero-to-one-hundred score, with the weakest dimension surfaced alongside it so you know where to look first.
- Can I take it again?
- Yes. Many users run it once on their own, then a second time with their program lead or sponsor in the room. The questions tend to produce a more useful conversation than they do a useful score; retaking it with a different person answering is one of the more productive uses of the tool.
- Will I get spam after I take this?
- No. The diagnostic does not ask for your email, your company, or your name, and there is nothing to opt into. If you want to talk through your result with us, you can book a briefing at the end. Otherwise the interaction ends when you close the tab.
- What if none of the answer options fit my situation?
- Pick the option closest to your reality and keep going. The diagnostic is calibrated for the patterns we see most often, not every possible edge case. If your situation does not fit any of the four options on a given question, that is itself a useful signal; bring it up in the briefing.
- Can I share my result?
- The result lives in your browser session and disappears when you close the tab, so there is no shareable link. If you want to share the output with a colleague, screenshot the result page or take the diagnostic together. We deliberately did not build a share-this-score mechanic; the conversation matters more than the number.