Capability is the easy half. Reliability is the rest.
For organizations that have absorbed AI and now need to know whether what they absorbed is still working.
OMI Enhanced extends the canonical six dimensions of metabolism with a seventh: Decay Maturity. Eighty to ninety-five percent of enterprise AI initiatives produce zero measurable ROI. Most surviving systems are quieter than that — they still run, just less well than the day they shipped. Enhanced is for the organizations that are ready to instrument the back half of the AI lifecycle, not just the launch.
“The capability era of enterprise AI is roughly over. The reliability era is starting.”
The seven dimensions
Six are the canonical OMI: Leadership, Process, Talent, Data, Technology, Culture. The seventh is the new one — and the one that decides whether the other six's gains hold over time.
Leadership Metabolism
How fast leadership absorbs and acts on AI transformation.
Process Metabolism
How fast workflows redesign rather than layer.
Talent Metabolism
How fast workforce moves from AI introduction to productive daily use.
Data Metabolism
How readily available and usable is your data for AI consumption.
Technology Metabolism
How fast pilots graduate to production with mature MLOps.
Culture Metabolism
How the organization metabolizes change emotionally.
Decay Maturity
How well does your enterprise resist AI reliability erosion over time? Eight currencies of decay — drift, eval debt, silent regression, prompt rot, agent error compounding, hallucination accumulation, refusal drift, shadow AI. Whether you measure half-life, who owns it, and how quickly you detect that an AI system is degrading.
For the full walk-through of the dimension and the four-stage model (Blind, Aware, Instrumented, Self-Healing), read What Is Decay Maturity? — builds on the Decay Tax framework and the Eighth Conversation argument for a Chief Reliability Officer for AI.
Three tiers, one engine
OMI Lite (3 / 15 / ~3 min) — fastest signal. Leadership, Process, Talent.
OMI (6 / 30 / ~5 min) — the canonical diagnostic, benchmarked against twelve industries.
OMI Enhanced (7+ / 35+ / ~7 min) — adds Decay Maturity. For organizations that have absorbed AI and want to know whether what they absorbed is still working.
Enhanced is also the tier that will keep growing. As new dimensions of organizational metabolism surface — Reliability today, perhaps Agent Governance tomorrow, perhaps Vendor Portability the quarter after — they land here first.
Take OMI Enhanced
Seven minutes. Thirty-five questions. The full diagnostic plus the Decay Maturity overlay — so you do not just know how fast you absorb, but whether what you absorbed is still alive.