The landscape of digital change is noisy. There are a lot of AI tools that claim to change the way we work every day, but the numbers don’t back them up.
Depending on the study you read, between 70% and 90% of digital transformations don’t bring the value that was planned.
What’s the big difference between what technology says it can do and what it actually does for businesses?
The answer isn’t a lack of drive or money. It’s not clear what the problem is. Companies often start big projects without fully knowing where they are starting from or what their actual on-the-ground capabilities are.
They rely on “black box” AI solutions that say they can do magic but don’t, or they do a lot of manual reviews that are out of date before they’re even finished.
We are making a platform to connect the big goals of strategy with the real world of the company. Our goal for 2026 is not just to make another tool, but also to change the way businesses think about themselves by stating that “AI Automates, Human Judges.
The Core Vision: Maximizing Potential Through Responsible AI
CapabiliSense was based on a single idea: AI shouldn’t take the place of strategic thinking; instead, it should free it up.
In a lot of places, figuring out maturity and potential is a pain. It takes weeks of meetings, charts, and arguments about what is right and wrong. The market will have changed by the time the score is given.
Our goal is to use our Venus AI engine to automate the “grind” of assessment, which includes quickly going through papers, finding patterns, and giving out baseline scores. This technology makes room for the second and more important part of our vision: human judgment.
Our view is that AI can’t understand context, ethics, or the subtleties of strategy like humans can. It’s built so that leaders can get the information they need to make decisions on their own, instead of asking a machine to do it.
Our goal is for technology to be a tool that helps people reach their full potential, not something that replaces it.
2026 Strategic Goals
The year 2026 is a turning point in CapabiliSense’s development. We’ve moved on from “proving the idea” to “proving the scale.” Our plan for the year is based on three main key areas.
1. Evolving the Feasibility Framework
The Feasibility Framework is the most important part of our platform. It’s where human experts look over the AI’s results and put them in context. We want to change this from a review tool to an active planning space by 2026.
Based on their potential data, we want users to be able to sim different transformation scenarios. What changes about our ready for Y project if we spend money on X capability?
In 2026, CapabiliSense will do more than just tell you where you are. It will also help you figure out how to get where you want to go.
2. Deepening the “Venus” Engine’s Contextual Awareness
We still believe that people should be the final judges, but the AI should be able to help. Our goal for 2026 is to make the Venus engine much better at taking in and organizing random business data.
We are moving toward a standard where the AI can read not only formal strategy documents but also the “messy” reality of business, like meeting notes, project post-mortems, and feedback that isn’t all put together. This will give us a more accurate picture of how healthy the organization is.
3. Community-Led Development
We are setting a goal to have 40% of our 2026 feature roadmap defined directly by our user community. We are building this tool for transformation leaders, consultants, and CIOs, and we believe they know best what friction points need solving.
Innovation at the Heart: The “Glass Box” Approach
There are a lot of “black box” AI systems on the market right now. These are systems that give replies without showing their work.
For business planning, this is a bad idea. You can’t follow through with a plan if you don’t understand why the AI suggested it.
The “Glass Box” method is at the heart of our plan for innovation. CapabiliSense must be able to link every score, every baseline, and every insight it gives back to the proof.
Our AI will tell you if your cybersecurity is at “Level 2,” and you will be able to see which documents and data points led to that decision. This openness is what sets us apart from others. We’re coming up with new ideas for trust, not just speed.
Why Building in Public Matters
We have chosen to build CapabiliSense in public. In an industry obsessed with stealth modes and trade secrets, this might seem counterintuitive. However, when you are building a tool designed to assess truth and capability, opacity is a liability.
Building in public allows us to:
- Validate our “Operating Principles”: We don’t just want to ship code; we want to test our philosophy. By sharing our “AI Automates, Human Judges” principle early, we invite critique and refinement from the very experts we aim to serve.
- Build Trust Before Scale: Trust is the currency of the future. By documenting our journey—including the bugs, the pivots, and the hard decisions—we demonstrate that we have nothing to hide.
- Accelerate Feedback Loops: We cannot afford to build in a vacuum. A transparent development process ensures that when we miss the mark, our community tells us immediately, allowing us to course-correct faster than traditional closed-source competitors.
Looking Ahead: The Decade of Capability Intelligence
2026 is just a starting point; it’s not the end goal. From now on, we can see a change from “periodic assessments” to “continuous capability intelligence.”
Companies check their health once a year or every three months right now. We see a future where CapabiliSense gives organizations a real-time reading on their ready.
Think about a dashboard that tells a CIO in real time if their team’s ability to support a new cloud move is getting worse, so the project doesn’t fail.
That’s the effect we want to have over a decade: A world where the number of failed transformation projects goes down not because the projects are easier, but because companies stop going blind.
Join the Journey
Dreams die in the space between what you want to do and what you can actually do. We’re building a bridge over it.
Join us on our journey if you are a transformation leader, a consultant, or a technologist who is sick of the “black box” method.
Our goal is not only to build a software platform, but also to fix the foundations that are broken for digital change.
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