A privately funded workforce institution built to identify, teach, and measure the AI capabilities Hoosier businesses need now. Built by Hoosiers, for Hoosiers.
The goal: move 10,000 Hoosiers up The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency, and prove it, by 2030.
Indiana businesses should not have to wait a year for training built around technology that changed last month.
Why This Exists
Indiana is moving. The state's IN AI initiative connects businesses with practical AI resources, universities are standing up research centers, and billions of dollars in AI infrastructure are breaking ground across the state. That momentum is exactly why three jobs now need a permanent owner.
Organizational readiness gets diagnosed. No Indiana entity holds a proficiency standard for the people inside those organizations, and a company cannot climb from pilot to production without people who can carry it. The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency is that standard, with a free assessment that measures where a person stands and proves how far they moved.
Programs get announced. Few get measured, and fewer get checked six months later. The Center exists to hold every program it touches, including its own, to an evidence ladder that ends in verified outcomes instead of press releases.
A curriculum that takes a semester to approve is out of date the day it clears committee. The Center's material is versioned like software and updated as the tools change, because the technology does not wait for an academic calendar.
None of this competes with what Indiana has started. It is the layer underneath that makes the rest of it provable.
What the Center Is
Six responsibilities define the institution. Each one already has a working prototype inside LaunchReady.
What "AI proficient" means for Indiana's workforce, defined on The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency and kept current as the technology changes.
Public reporting on whether AI programs deliver what they promise, measured on a named instrument with published methodology.
Employers, community organizations, educators, and funders coordinated around one standard instead of dozens of separate pilots.
Current, hands-on training reaching the Hoosiers the slowest systems serve last: job seekers, career changers, and small-business teams.
Where Indiana's people stand on AI proficiency, how that compares with other states, and what moves the number.
The interviews, working sessions, and public conversations that put Indiana's AI decisions on the record.
What Already Works
The Center started by building the working parts, then asking what they add up to.
The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency and its free assessment, about ten minutes, measuring individuals before and after training so movement is provable.
Hands-on working sessions and workforce courses on versioned, current material. The next workforce delivery runs July 14 in downtown Indianapolis, measured before and after. Harrison Painter also teaches AI courses through Ivy Tech Community College.
The AI Law Tracker follows AI legislation across federal, Indiana, and Illinois dockets and answers questions with cited, plain-English briefs.
LaunchReady Indiana covers what AI means for Hoosier businesses, backed by a public library of research-backed articles and the book You Have Already Been Replaced by AI.
SAM builds working AI agents inside Indiana businesses, on approved workflows, owned by the client. Implementation is where proficiency becomes payroll math.
One founder, running the same operating principles the Center teaches, produced the standard, the assessment, the tracker, the publication, the books, and the training catalog. The output is the method's own evidence.
The Evidence Ladder
Every program the Center runs or reviews climbs the same seven stages. Credit accrues at the top of the ladder. A press release is stage one.
Stages four through seven are where programs tend to go quiet. They are the Center's entire reason to exist.
The Center will publish program scores only after its methodology, evidence rules, and correction process are approved and public. Until then, the ladder governs our own work first: the July 14 workforce delivery is the first program climbing it, with baseline and post-training measurement built in.
Operating Principles
Material is versioned like software and updated as the tools change, instead of waiting on an approval calendar.
Baseline first, re-measure after. Movement on a named instrument is the product; everything else is opinion.
The ladder ends at Verified. Nothing earns full credit for being announced.
Every standard the Center applies to outside programs applies to the Center and to LaunchReady first.
Commercial relationships get published. Sponsors and clients never influence findings.
The Center is designed to outgrow its incubator, with governance, funding, and methodology gates defined in advance.
Founding Sponsors
The first founding sponsors will shape what Indiana measures, teaches, and verifies for the next decade. Sponsorship terms are still being defined; the conversations are starting now.
Registering unlocks the Founding Sponsor Brief, the full ask on paper. Prefer a conversation first? Book a call.
FAQ
A privately funded workforce institution in development: built to identify, teach, and measure the AI capabilities Hoosier businesses and workers need now. It is currently incubated by LaunchReady.ai, and its working parts already run: The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency standard, a free assessment, current hands-on training, the AI Law Tracker, and LaunchReady Indiana.
The Center is privately funded by its founder, a veteran, to date. No taxpayer dollars, no state funding, and no state endorsement is claimed. Founding sponsor conversations are opening now for organizations that want to shape what Indiana measures, teaches, and verifies.
They are complementary. IN AI, led by the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership in cooperation with the Governor's administration, connects Indiana businesses with practical AI resources. The Center is built for the two layers no current initiative owns: a proficiency standard for people, and verified program outcomes. The Center holds its own programs to that same bar.
When four conditions exist: a governance charter, external funding or founding-member commitments, an approved accountability methodology with editorial safeguards, and public proof cases with recurring programs. Until then it is openly incubated by LaunchReady.ai.
Register founding-sponsor or partner interest in the form on this page, or book a call. The first founding sponsors will shape the standards, research, and access programs the Center builds for Indiana.
Where this stands, stated plainly. The Indiana AI Center of Excellence is in development and currently incubated by LaunchReady.ai, which funds it privately, owns The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency, and delivers assessments, training, and AI implementation commercially.
That relationship will always be published, and the Center's standards apply to LaunchReady's own programs first. The Center moves to independent governance and its own home when funding, methodology, and proof warrant it. No state endorsement, partnership, or public funding is claimed, and no program scores will be published before the methodology and correction process are public.
