AIQ ChatGPT by CFTE

AIQ ChatGPT

Assess how good you actually are at using ChatGPT
Access
Invitation only
First result
About 30 minutes
Format
Five exercises, self-paced
1
2
3
4
5

From our early pilot, most people who use ChatGPT
every day turn out to be Level 1.

ChatGPT is widely used, but proficiency is rarely measured

ChatGPT has become part of how professionals work. Most people have developed real habits, real workflows, and real skill along the way.

What has been missing is a way to see that skill clearly. There has been no shared scale, no evidence standard, and no meaningful answer to a simple question: how good am I at this, and what should I work on next?

That is the question AIQ ChatGPT was built to answer.

A performance-based assessment of how you actually use ChatGPT

Every existing assesment measures what you know about AI. AIQ ChatGPT is the first assessment built on what you actually do with it: real tasks, completed inside your own ChatGPT account, judged on the evidence.

Why this is different from a knowledge assessment

What it is
  • Five real tasks, one for each level of proficiency
  • Completed inside your own ChatGPT account, the way you normally work
  • Assessed on the output and the conversation that produced it
  • Scored against a published rubric: Knowledge, Skills, Behaviours
  • A verified, shareable report with a development brief
  • A public, shareable badge at every level you pass
What it is not
  • Not a knowledge test.Knowing what a context window is tells nobody whether you can use one. Every exercise is a piece of real work.
  • Not a course.We do not teach you first and test what you remember. We assess how you already work, then show you precisely what to develop next.
  • Not a box-ticking exerciseYou earn each level by demonstrating the required proficiency through your work. The badge reflects what you can actually do.

Assess your AI readiness across five levels, from Awareness to Strategic Mastery

One exercise per level. Each exercise unlocks the next. Select a level to see what it takes.

1
Awareness
Making Sense of Complex Material
2
Foundational Application
Professional Communication
3
Practitioner
Multi-Document Analysis
4
Advanced Practitioner
Reusable Workflow System
5
Strategic Mastery
Operational Prototype
LEVEL
1

Awareness

You can take something genuinely complex and use ChatGPT to reach real understanding.

  • Directs ChatGPT with clear, purposeful prompts
  • Uses it to draft, summarise and brainstorm effectively
  • Works with an uploaded document and asks the right questions of it
Exercise 1 · Making Sense of Complex Material
30–45 minutes
Live from day one of your access
LEVEL
2

Foundational Application

You control the output. The work that comes back is the work you asked for.

  • Briefs with role, audience, format, tone and constraints in a single prompt
  • Steers style and structure with examples of what good looks like
  • Reviews, validates and refines output rather than accepting the first draft
Exercise 2 · Professional Communication
30–45 minutes
Pass the previous exercise to unlock this stage
LEVEL
3

Practitioner

ChatGPT becomes a working environment. This is the threshold for dependable professional use.

  • Maintains persistent context, files and instructions across sessions
  • Runs multi-step workflows: brief, synthesis, structure, draft, critique, final
  • Chains outputs into inputs instead of starting each prompt from zero
Exercise 3 · Multi-Document Analysis
45–60 minutes
Pass the previous exercise to unlock this stage
LEVEL
4

Advanced Practitioner

You are creating capability for other people, not just output for yourself.

  • Builds reusable assistants a colleague could use without knowing how to prompt
  • Designs prompt chains with guardrails, critique loops and quality checks
  • Diagnoses why a workflow is underperforming, and fixes the right thing
Exercise 4 · Reusable Workflow System
60–75 minutes
Pass the previous exercise to unlock this stage
LEVEL
5

Strategic Mastery

AI as working infrastructure, with the judgement to know where it belongs.

  • Designs end-to-end workflows with defined inputs, checkpoints and fallbacks
  • Connects ChatGPT into broader systems and processes beyond the chat window
  • Judges when something should stay manual, become reusable, or be automated
Exercise 5 · Operational Prototype
75–90 minutes
Pass the previous exercise to unlock this stage
Level 1. Level 1 is where the pathway begins, and it is a genuine credential in its own right: real understanding, demonstrated on real material.

Complete each level, submit the evidence and understand your proficiency

01

We give you a brief

A real task with real source material. Nothing artificial, nothing industry-specific. Exercise 1 takes thirty to forty-five minutes.

02

You work in your own ChatGPT

Your account, your normal way of working. You submit two things: what you produced, and a link to the conversation that produced it.

03

You receive your assessment

Your confirmed level, scores across Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours, and a development brief for the next level. Within minutes.

AIQ ChatGPT assessment interface
The assessment, as participants see it

Built on CFTE's work in AI capability since 2018

CFTE works with banks, sovereign wealth funds, regulators and governments to build AI capability at scale. AIQ ChatGPT comes from that body of work: the AI Literacy White Paper, the CFTE AI Proficiency Framework, and diagnostics used by institutions worldwide.

200,000+
Global alumni across 160 countries
130+
Countries reached worldwide
1,500+
Industry experts in the CFTE network
250+
Global institutional partners

What the first participants are saying about AIQ ChatGPT

The first invitations are already out, and early participants have started sharing their results publicly.

AIQ ChatGPT participant result

A verified level, a shareable badge and a clear view of what to develop next

  • A confirmed level from 1 to 5, earned on the work you submit
  • A public, shareable badge at every level you pass
  • Scores across Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours for every exercise, with the assessor's reasoning in plain language
  • The things you do consistently well, cited from your own submissions
  • A development brief setting out exactly what to work on next
LEVEL
1
LEVEL
2
LEVEL
3
LEVEL
4
LEVEL
5
AIQ ChatGPT report

Join the first invitation only pilot

AIQ ChatGPT is currently in its first pilot. Access is not on general release: invitations are shared personally by the CFTE team and through a small number of partner organisations.

Places are complimentary and set up individually, and pilot participants receive early access to future AIQ assessments, for Copilot, Claude and Gemini, as they release.

No code yet?
Complete the form to request access. A limited number of places in the first pilot are reserved through direct requests/invitation.

See where your members and teams stand on AI proficiency

Associations, universities and employers can extend invitations to their members, students or teams, and receive a picture of capability that almost nobody currently has.

  • Complimentary for every member you invite during the first pilot.
  • Your people join the first pilot and receive early access to every future AIQ assessment.
  • An anonymised view of your team, by level and by function. As far as we know, no other organisation has that picture of its own members.
  • First sight of the benchmark before it is published anywhere.
  • We provide everything. The member copy is written, the assets are ready, and you receive a dedicated invitation code.

On data. What you receive is fully anonymised and aggregated. We do not share names, individual results or personal data with you or with anyone else. You see the shape of your population's capability, never a person.

Or book a 15-minute call if that is easier.

FAQs

How do I get access?

Access to the first pilot is by invitation. Invitations are shared personally by the CFTE team and through a small number of partner organisations. If you have received an invitation code, it is already applied to this page. If not, you can request to be considered using the form above.

What do I need to take part?

A ChatGPT account and about thirty to forty-five minutes for the first exercise. Levels 3 to 5 draw on capabilities available on a paid ChatGPT plan, such as Projects and custom GPTs. On the free tier you can complete Levels 1 and 2 and still receive a report and badges for those.

How long does the whole certification take?

Exercise 1 takes thirty to forty-five minutes. The full pathway of five exercises takes four to five hours, spread across a 30-day window at your own pace. You can stop at any point and keep the level you have earned.

Is this a quiz?

No. There are no multiple-choice questions. Each exercise is a piece of real work completed inside your own ChatGPT account. You submit both the output and the conversation that produced it, and the assessment reads how you worked, not what you can recall.

Why do you need the conversation link?

The output shows what you produced. The conversation shows how you got there, which is what distinguishes someone who got a good result from someone who knew exactly what they were doing. It is the most objective evidence the assessment has.

Can I retake an exercise?

Each exercise is a single submission. Your result reflects the work you submit, which is what makes the certification meaningful. The development brief in your report shows you exactly what to strengthen before attempting the next level.

Who sees my results?

You do. Your level, your scores and your report are yours to share or not. Anything published about the cohort is aggregated and anonymised. We never share names or individual results with anyone, including the organisation that invited you.

What does it cost?

Nothing during the first pilot. Access is complimentary for invited participants. At public launch the assessment will be a paid product, and pilot participants receive early access to future AIQ assessments as they release.

Know exactly where you stand with AI

The first pilot is open now. A confirmed level, a shareable badge, and a clear view of what to develop next.

Request an invitation