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An executive AI advisor works with CEOs and leadership teams on AI strategy, AI readiness, and the human-skill development that AI requires. Decision-grade work: what to build, who to develop, when to buy, how to measure. Different scope from AI development firms, who write software. Harrison Painter advises mid-market leadership teams on AI readiness through The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency framework.

AI consulting and AI development firms build software: custom models, chatbots, data pipelines, agent deployments. An executive AI advisor builds capability inside your leadership team: the skills, the operating picture, and the measurement system that lets your company decide what to build and what to skip. The two roles compound. Most CEOs need the advisor first.

An Indianapolis AI consultant working with mid-market companies (50 to 500 employees) typically delivers AI strategy assessments, executive AI advising, AI readiness measurement, and AI training. LaunchReady.ai provides this through The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency: a free assessment for individuals, a six-week engagement for leadership teams, and a 12-month Fractional Chief AI Officer program for ongoing development. Indianapolis-based, serving Indiana and national clients.

Harrison Painter is the executive AI advisor working with Indiana CEOs and leadership teams on AI readiness. He is the founder of LaunchReady.ai, creator of The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency, host of the AI Ready Podcast, and creator of AI Law Tracker (the free Indiana AI legislation tracker at ailawtracker.org). Based in Indianapolis.

It starts with a working session. Come build a working AI assistant on your own laptop and see if it is for you; upcoming dates are on the events page. From there, SAM is the custom build: scoped to your business and priced in the conversation, because a solo owner's build and a team's build are different jobs. For leadership teams, The 7 Levels Team Program and Fractional Chief AI Officer program are quoted in a proposal after a short call. Either way, you own what we build.

The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency is a published framework by Harrison Painter that measures individual and team AI capability across seven roles grouped into four tiers. Foundational: Cadet (AI Aware) and Ensign (Prompt Engineer). Practitioner: Lieutenant (Critical Thinker) and Commander (Context Engineer). Builder: Captain (Design Thinker) and Admiral (Systems Integrator). Leader: Mission Director (AI Orchestrator).

LaunchReady.ai is the AI Proficiency Standard, founded by Harrison Painter and based in Indianapolis (Fishers, Indiana). It publishes The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency framework and a free adaptive assessment. The way in is a working session, then SAM, a guided AI setup for owners and small teams, scoped to your business. For leadership teams, The 7 Levels Team Program is a six-week cohort program that measures and develops team AI capability with a written progress report at the end.

Harrison Painter is an Indianapolis-based executive AI advisor and the founder of LaunchReady.ai. He is the author of You Have Already Been Replaced by AI, host of the AI Ready Podcast (2.8M+ YouTube views), creator of AI Law Tracker at ailawtracker.org, and facilitator of Ivy Tech Community College's AI Certification course.

AI readiness is measured against The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency framework using a free adaptive assessment at assess.launchready.ai. Each participant receives a level placement from 1 to 7 and a written next step. Teams running The 7 Levels Team Program take a pre-assessment and a post-assessment six weeks apart, producing a written progress report that shows movement, not opinion.

The 7 Levels Team Program is the leadership-team scale-up in the LaunchReady.ai ladder, above the SAM entry offer: six weeks, cohort up to fifteen, remote by default. It includes a pre-engagement 7 Levels assessment, four live cohort sessions, a post-engagement reassessment, and a written progress report delivered at the end. Designed for leadership teams where AI readiness has become a board-level question.