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Workforce intelligence · for the leaders who own how work is designed

Most companies put AI into old operating models and wonder why it isn't working.

They're adopting AI faster than they're redesigning the roles, decisions, and learning systems around it.

Verellax reads the hiring record. As at 14 September 2026 that is 24,944 live job specifications from 217 employers across ten markets, and we score every AI-central role, where AI is core or supporting the work as written, on four tests. Who works with the model. Who can overrule it. Who owns its output. Which decisions stay with the person.

The score tells a company where it sits. From there we redesign the roles, decisions, and workflows so people's time moves to the work only a human can do, and we build the governance layer that keeps it there.

217 employers on record · re-reads every Monday
Live specifications24,944217 employers · ten markets · live basis
AI-central22.7%5,674 of 24,944 live specs · AI core or supporting the work as written
Entry-level roles, AI-central1.3%8 of 608 live Australian entry-level roles · at director level, 24.1%
Skill observations571,156830 canonical skills

Live basis · W38 · as at 14 September 2026 · figures re-render each Monday from that week's pack

Every sector adopted AI faster than it redesigned the work.
verellax.index
Share of each sector's live specifications · six sectors, all markets · 24,944 live · live basis · as at 14 September 2026
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
49.4% 20.1%
23.6% 9.0%
21.0% 10.1%
20.1% 10.9%
16.7% 5.9%
10.7% 3.2%
AI-nativetechnologyconsumer productsfinancial servicesprofessional servicesadvertising and agencies

In AI-native, 29.3 points of 49.4% adoption carry no decision architecture: the widest gap of the six.

Adoption Named accountability
Adoption: the share of a sector's live specifications that are AI-central, where AI is core or supporting the work as written. Named accountability: the share of the sector's live specifications that are AI-central and name at least one of the four tests.
Source: Verellax workforce intelligence · 24,944 live specifications · live basis · W38 · as at 14 September 2026 Figures re-render each Monday from that week's pack. The Index re-answers the question each quarter. Corrections

The task moved.
The role didn't.

Executives got AI written into their roles first. Graduates got it last. 24.1% of live director roles are AI-central; at entry level in Australia, 8 of 608 are.

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8live Australian entry-level roles are AI-central, of 608. At director level, 24.1% are.Australia · entry level n 608 · director and above · live basis · as at 14 September 2026

We measure the distance between the AI a company describes and the knowledge work it has designed.

Three ways to work with us, depending on what you already know. Most companies start with the measure. The ones that already know their gap start at Redesign, and the ones that have a design and need it to run start at Build.

01Measure
Measure Where does the market sit, and where do we?

We score every job specification a company publishes against four tests: how the person works with the model, who can overrule it, who owns its output, and which decisions the person holds. The Verellax Index publishes the market's answer every quarter, free, with every figure carrying its population and its date. The Diagnostic answers it for your company in three working days, A$18,000. The Benchmark answers it for your whole cohort.

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02Redesign
Redesign What would closing it take?

Discovery builds a living model of how your company works: every recurring decision in scope, who holds it, what the model informs, and where your people's time goes. Strategy turns that into the order of workflows to address. Workflow redesign then delivers, for each one, the flow, the roles, the decision rights, and a named owner for every AI output.

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03Build
Build Who keeps it true?

Engineering wires the redesigned workflow and its decision register into your stack. Implementation runs it in production, and Enablement teaches your people to hold the decisions the new workflow gives them. Governance checks it monthly on two measures: judgement share, the proportion of a person's time in the work only a human can do, and accountability coverage, the share of AI outputs with a named owner.

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Pick the question you couldn't get an answer to. The record has one.

Every line below is live basis, as at 14 September 2026, and re-renders each Monday

#RoleTheir questionThe line they'll findWhere
01 Chief Marketing Officer Our marketing teams use AI every day. Who answers for it? 57.3% of 5,674 AI-central live roles name nobody to overrule the model, own its output or hold a decision. Marketing, Australia 02 Chief People Officer Are the roles we're writing designed for the work they'll do? 75.6 per cent of 12,547 live roles that mention AI say nothing about who decides. Where you sit 03 Chief Financial Officer We cut roles and refilled them. Did we redesign them? Every live and closed specification we hold for an employer is scored on the same four tests. The Diagnostic reads yours against your cohort. Added while cutting 04 CEO or Chief Strategy Officer Are we building AI, governing it, or only using it? The user-economy line publishes with Edition one of the Index on 1 October 2026. The user economy 05 Transformation Lead Adoption is done. Where did the redesign stop? In every cohort a minority of roles score four of four. The rest is the gap. The designed minority 06 Board Member When the model is wrong, who is accountable in writing? 1,354 live roles name a governance framework. 36 name who holds decision authority. The four tests 07 Head of Talent What are we hiring graduates to learn? 8 of 608 live Australian entry-level roles are AI-central. At director level, 24.1% are. Entry level

Four instruments read the same record.

The Index is the quarterly measure. Skills reads what employers ask for, and what they've stopped asking for. Method shows how a specification is read. The Register is the named reading of one company, behind the gate. Every figure on all four resolves to the same pack, and every page states its population and its freeze date.

verellax.indexThe quarterly measure of how far role design sits behind AI adoption.Edition one · 1 October 2026 · 24,944 live specs verellax.skillsWhat employers ask for, and what they have stopped asking for.571,156 observations · 830 skills verellax.methodHow a specification is read, and what falls out at each stage.217 employers named · counts read live verellax.registerThe company-level record. Named, and not published.Named · behind the gate
One specification from the record
“Lead Automation Analyst, Claims”
insurance · AU · posted August 2026 · employer not named

AI is in the title at the manager grade, and the role scores two of four. The specification describes how the person works with the model, and names who can overrule it. It never says who owns its output, or which decision is the person's to hold. It counts among the 42.7% of AI-central live roles that name someone to overrule the model but write no decision as the person's to hold, as at 14 September 2026.

Hired to use the tool.

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The skills it resolves to
AI workflow design Cross-functional collaboration Claims triage Model monitoring Exception handling Queue management Policy interpretation Reporting Vendor liaison Output review
ExecutionCoordinationJudgementAI-adjacent Ringed: named in the specification, no authority held

Skills are composition within this specification, not a trend; mapping coverage is not yet flat across the corpus. 10 skills named in this specification, as at 14 September 2026.

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Source: Verellax workforce intelligence · one specification from 24,944 live specifications · live basis · W38 · as at 14 September 2026 · example specification carried from W36, as at carried from W36