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21,000+ strategic plans analyzed
83% of metrics have no owner. Five questions tell you what AI would find in your plan.
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Ask AI about your plan
“Which measures have no owner?”
“Which owners never reported?”
“Which projects actually finished?”
Answer, across 597 organizations
ClearPoint platform data, January 2026 snapshot.
Every 100 metrics
AI doesn't fix that. It reports it faster.
83% of metrics carry no owner at all — 272,360 of 327,582. ClearPoint platform data, January 2026 snapshot.
The gap is not model access. It is what the record already says.
Share of owned metrics that never got a written update, by sector.
Sector comes from the platform's own industry field, not from name matching. ClearPoint platform data, January 2026 snapshot.
Five questions. One score. Your priority named.
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The assessment
Your sector sets your benchmark.
Five questions follow. Each one names what the platform record says about it.
Question 1 of 5 · Data foundation
Question 2 of 5 · Framework maturity
Question 3 of 5 · Accountability
Question 4 of 5 · Reporting
Question 5 of 5 · Integration
Where the score is held down
Named, with what the platform record says about each.
An AI summary of this record repeats a number nobody can source.
In ClearPoint
Every measure carries a source, an owner and a last-refresh date on the record itself.
Measures that move no objective still get reported. Nobody can say which ones matter.
In ClearPoint
Measures link to objectives. Anything unlinked shows up in a list you can work through.
Names in the owner column, silence in the record. A board hears that as progress.
In ClearPoint
Owners get a due date and a field to write in. Missed updates are counted, not guessed.
A project passes its end date and the report says nothing. The slip surfaces a quarter late.
In ClearPoint
Overdue projects surface with their owner, their reason, and the measure they hold up.
Reporting time goes to retyping. The month closes before anyone reads the numbers.
In ClearPoint
Numbers arrive by integration or import, so the reporting month goes to the discussion.
Four pages, ready to forward
Four pages on your plan: the score, your sector's real record, and a 90-day plan.
Your five answers, and the two dimensions holding the score down.
What the record actually looks like in your sector, with sample sizes.
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I'll skip the reportOwners, sources and written updates live on the record, so the gaps are counted, not estimated.
Plans already kept this way
Your five answers, each rated 1 to 5, multiplied by four. A 20 to 100 range.
0–39
No named owners. AI would summarize a record nobody maintains.
40–59
Names exist, updates don't. Ownership on paper, silence in the record.
60–79
Measures hold. Projects still pass their end dates unexplained.
80–100
Owned, current, read. Point AI at the record, not the warehouse.
Thirty minutes, starting on your lowest dimension.
Talk to a Strategy ExpertYour KPI data is ready for AI when every measure carries a named owner, a source, and a recent written status. Across 21,000+ strategic plans from 597 organizations, ClearPoint platform data shows 83% of metrics have no owner assigned at all (272,360 of 327,582). An AI layer reading that record inherits the gap, then reports it faster.
An AI readiness assessment for local government scores whether a city's performance record - objectives, measures, projects and owners - can support automated analysis. Most versions grade infrastructure. In local government, ClearPoint platform data shows 62.5% of owned metrics never receive a written status update from their named owner (n = 21,953 metrics, 98 organizations). That is the constraint an AI pilot meets first.
Public sector AI readiness depends less on model access than on whether the strategic record is maintained by named people. In the January 2026 snapshot, 52.0% of 10,046,276 performance status records say No Information, No Data or Data Error instead of reporting a result. That share is identified by keyword on a multilingual free-text field, so treat it as a floor.
AI governance readiness asks who is accountable for a number before a model uses it. AI readiness usually asks whether the data is reachable. The distinction decides outcomes: of the 55,222 metrics that do carry a named owner, 61.9% have never once received a written status update from that owner. Governance without a written record is a column of names.
The score is the sum of your five answers, each rated 1 to 5, multiplied by four, giving a 20 to 100 range. Four phases follow: Foundation (0-39), Building (40-59), Acceleration (60-79), Optimization (80-100). Answers are self-reported and are never compared against your own ClearPoint account.
The benchmarks come from ClearPoint platform data: 21,000+ strategic plans from 597 organizations. Element-level figures use a January 2026 snapshot, and the update-to-login ratio covers 2025. Project completion is recorded completion - a team can finish work without checking the box - so those figures are a floor, not a measure of failure.
Method
Every benchmark on this page comes from ClearPoint platform data. The corpus figure — 21,000+ strategic plans from 597 organizations — counts every plan built on the platform, active and archived. The element-level figures on ownership, status records, project completion and project duration come from a January 2026 snapshot of organizations live at that date. The update-to-login ratio covers calendar year 2025 and excludes ClearPoint staff accounts.
Two deliberate limits, stated rather than hidden. Project completion is reported as recorded completion: a team can close work without setting the flag, so the figure is a floor, not a measure of failure. The no-result share of status records is identified by keyword across a multilingual free-text field, so it is also a floor. Where a claim could not be reproduced from the data, it does not appear on this page.
Sector comes from the platform's own industry field rather than from matching organization names, so the sector figures carry no “n is a floor” caveat. Your answers are self-reported and are never compared against your own ClearPoint account.
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