Where does your infrastructure sit on the authority ladder?

Your score places you on the Infrastructure Authority Maturity Model. What you can see improves at every rung. What you can govern only changes at Level 4.

1. L0
   Tool-DrivenWork is driven by tools and tickets. Context is rebuilt by hand each time it is needed.
2. L1
   DocumentedRecords and reviews exist, maintained separately from the environment, so they decay between updates.
3. L2
   ObservableYou can see the estate. This is the observability ceiling — seeing is not governing, and most organizations sit here.
4. L3
   ModeledA reconciled model describes the environment accurately. It informs decisions without deciding them.
5. L4
   GovernedConnected change is validated against the model before it runs. Authority moves from people to the model here.
6. L5
   AuthoritativeOne authority every actor must clear, including automation and AI. Acting outside authorized state is structurally unavailable.

Levels 0 to 3 describe. Levels 4 and 5 decide. The climb between them is the one that changes what people, automation, and AI are permitted to do — and it is the only rung that requires an operating model rather than better tooling.