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: 43,967 live job specifications from 283 employers, week ending 2 October 2026. Each role is read on whether it involves AI, whether AI sits at the centre of the work, and whether the role is accountable for what the model produces.
The Diagnostic shows how a company's hiring compares to its sector, benchmarked against those redesigning their organisations around AI. 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.
283 employers on record · re-reads every MondayBeside the three measures, as context, on the live-roles base: 24.0% of live roles, all markets, have AI at the centre of the work (10,556 of 43,967).
Source: Verellax workforce intelligence · 43,967 live specs · October 2026 · week ending 2 October 2026 · figures re-render each Monday from that week's freeze
The task moved.
The role didn't.
Of 7,238 live roles at director and above, all markets, 39.5% involve AI, and of those, 60.5% have AI at the centre of the work. Of 874 live entry-level roles in Australia, 4.6% involve AI, and of those, 27.5% · 11 of 40 have AI at the centre of the work, week ending 2 October 2026.
Read the thesisVerellax measures the distance between what organisations say about AI and how they have designed the work around it.
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.
We read every AI-central role in the job specifications a company publishes on four tests: works with the model; can overrule it; is accountable for what it produces; keeps decisions over it. 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.
Get your Diagnostic →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.
Talk to us →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.
Talk to us →Pick the question you couldn't get an answer to. The record has one.
Every line below is live basis, week ending 2 October 2026, and re-renders each Monday
01 Chief People Officer Are the roles we're writing designed for the work they'll do? Works with the model: 18.7% of 10,556 AI-central roles, all markets, week ending 2 October 2026. The four tests→ 02 Chief Financial Officer We cut roles and backfilled them. Did we redesign them? Of 10,556 AI-central roles, all markets: new (confirmed) 26.9%; backfill (confirmed) 19.9%; backfill (inferred) 53.2%, week ending 2 October 2026. Added while cutting→ 03 CEO or Chief Strategy Officer Does the role use AI, build it, or govern it? Of 17,241 live roles that involve AI, all markets: Uses AI 56.5%; Builds it 24.8%; Governs it 4.3%, week ending 2 October 2026. The role's relationship to AI→ 04 Transformation Lead Adoption is done. Where did the redesign stop? Of 43,967 live roles, all markets, 39.2% involve AI; of those, 61.2% have AI at the centre of the work; of those, 21.8% are accountable for what the model produces, week ending 2 October 2026. Where you sit→ 05 Board Member When the model is wrong, who is accountable in writing? Is accountable for what it produces: 21.8% of 10,556 AI-central roles, all markets, week ending 2 October 2026. The four tests→ 06 Head of Talent What are we hiring graduates to learn? Of 874 live entry-level roles in Australia, 4.6% involve AI, and of those, 27.5% · 11 of 40 have AI at the centre of the work, week ending 2 October 2026. 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.
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- Every exhibit, numbered, each base disclosed
- The distribution page: where do you sit
- Appendix: the four tests, the suppression floor, the corrections route
- No employer is named in Edition One.