AIRS-J/1
Unit of analysis: one individual, one assessment. Produces a portable judgment credential scored against a public rubric and recorded in a free public register, when issued.
AIR APAC. The rubric is public. So are its limits.
AIR APAC Standard · AIRS-J/1
The rubric is public.
So are its limits.
AIRS-J/1 defines the judgment a person exercises when AI produces the answer: nine dimensions, public anchors, published non-claims, and a credential that will belong to the person who earns it. v1.0 is published; certification is not yet open.
AIRS-J/1 v1.0 · published · certification not openRead the Standard, and its limits →
Two instruments
One person. One organisation.
The AI Readiness Index
Unit of analysis: one organisation. Produces an outside-in public-signal visibility score (RPS) and tier, published quarterly across APAC markets.
An organisation’s Index position is not a function of its employees’ certifications, and a certification confers no Index effect. The two models share no structure and are not convertible.
These rules cost us revenue. That is how you can tell they are rules.
How AIR APAC stays independent →AIR APAC AI Readiness Pulse · Q2 2026
The unit of analysis is the organisation, not the economy. 5,820 candidates screened across 23 markets and six sectors. 3,359 cleared the evidence gate. 1,000 are published by name.
One research asset among many. The Pulse informs the field; it does not define AIR APAC's full audience. See sourcing and methodology →
Why a public rubric
Institutional properties, not features.
| Their limitation | The opening |
|---|---|
| Assessments are customised per employer, so results are not comparable across organisations. | A fixed, published standard that makes results comparable across employers, sectors and markets. |
| Credentials are employer-owned and disappear when the employee leaves. | A person-owned, portable credential. |
| Rubrics are proprietary and unpublished. | A public, versioned, externally reviewed rubric that anyone can inspect and contest. |
| No independent register. | A free, public verification register. |
A platform vendor tells an employer what their people can do.
Conditional until certification opens: what the register will let a market check.
AIR APAC will tell a market what a person is certified to do.
The competency model
Nine dimensions, four domains.
In AIR APAC material, “dimension” means one of these nine. The organisational Readiness System uses components and the Pulse uses signals; the models share no structure and are not convertible.
Structure
Framing the problem before reaching for a tool.
Test
Interrogating evidence, including machine-generated evidence.
Engage
Authority, people, and being seen to act.
Perform
Deciding proportionately, and owning the decision.
What the credential does not claim
The non-claims are normative.
| The credential is not | Because |
|---|---|
| A prediction of job performance | No criterion-validity evidence has been established. Predictive claims require longitudinal outcome data this Standard does not yet have. |
| A hiring or promotion instrument | It must not be the sole or determining basis of an employment decision. It is one input among several, and the employer remains accountable for the decision. |
| Bias-free | Fairness is monitored and reported under Section 15. It is not asserted. |
| An organisational rating | The unit of analysis is one person, one assessment. |
Market dossiers · Q2 2026
Readiness, made visible by market.
22 market dossiers, each a 20-page PDF built from the same index. Organisations named and scored, market by market.
What AIR APAC does
Evidence for decisions. Capability for the work ahead.
The Standard, the Index, and their limits are public. Programs, audits, and practice are sold, and never to anyone AIR APAC is currently measuring.
Explore the AIR APAC research
01
Know where you stand.
The Readiness System scores six components across people, process, and data.
→02Build the capability in-house.
Programs that train your people to lead AI readiness themselves.
→03Turn diagnosis into action.
Advisory that converts a clear readiness diagnosis into practical next steps.
→04Practise the judgment.
Scenario practice against the nine public dimensions of the published standard.
→Audiences
Who AIR APAC is built for.
Individuals and senior professionals
Judging whether a portable judgment credential is worth holding, and joining the founding-cohort list.
Professional bodies, universities, governments
Assessing whether AIRS-J/1 is recognisable, and on what governance basis.
Employers and sponsors
Understanding a credential they may sponsor but will never own.
Delivery partners and trainers
Seeing the licensee path, its published criteria, and its limits.
Government & public sector
Running an AI readiness or digital transformation programme, with no outside-in benchmark to test it against.
Midsized & large enterprise
Legacy systems, departmental silos, and process debt that AI adoption exposes rather than removes.
The organisational readiness offer is not built for startups or small businesses: without legacy systems or departmental silos, the readiness problem AIR APAC solves does not exist yet. The Standard is a different track with no employer-size condition; any individual will be able to present for assessment once certification opens.
The Readiness System
Three pillars. One readiness framework.
AI fails when people are unprepared, processes are unclear, or data cannot be trusted. Published pillar weights. See the Readiness System
How we work
Diagnose. Roadmap. Transfer capability.
Benchmark against the evidence.
Six-component scoring before any technology commitment.
Turn findings into priorities.
A focused action framework with 90-day milestones and a clear stop-list.
Transfer the skill to lead it.
Capability that remains inside the organisation.
What the evidence shows.
Featured finding · Singapore · Q2 2026
Singapore shows its work.
89 companies here publish proof of capability, averaging 65 of 100.
The numbers
67Readiness score for Singapore. Range 58-77.
105Companies here that reach the published APAC top 1,000, of 257 scored.
Programs and advisory
Move from evidence to capability.
AI readiness is not a report you receive. It is a capability your organisation builds, practises, and owns.
The Pulse measures what the outside can see. The Scorecard measures the organisation behind it. The gap between them is the work.
Institutional credibility
Organisations AIR APAC has collaborated with across Asia Pacific.
- 8TV
- AstraZeneca
- Astro
- Australian Human Resources Institute
- Bank Negara Malaysia
- Channel 9 Australia
- CIMB Bank
- Collins Financial Group
- Dell EMC
- ESMT Berlin
- Frost & Sullivan
- GEMS Education
- Heritage Hotel Group
- HSBC
- IT Associates
- Malaysiakini
- Maybank Group
- Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia
- NTV7
- Proton Holdings
- Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
- Shell
- Sinar Mas Mining
- Sterling Publishing
- Tanco Resorts
- Tata Group
- The CEO Institute (Australia)
- TIME
- TV3 Malaysia
- United Plantations
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
- Zurich Insurance