About
Who is behind this, and why it exists
World Model Readiness is one person's answer to a specific worry, built as a tool rather than an argument. This page says who runs it, what it is for, and, just as important, what it is not. The rules it names here are the ones the site actually enforces, described in full on the methodology page.
The person
Thorsten Meyer
This site is built and run by Thorsten Meyer, who writes about AI, decision-making and the editorial function at thorstenmeyerai.com. It is not a company product or a venture, it is the operational form of one essay, The Editorial Function Nobody Is Accounting For, and the deck that accompanies it, The Boundary Layer. The essay makes an argument, this site turns that argument into something you can run against your own organisation and get a graded answer from.
Why it exists
A wave, and a quiet way to fail it
In early 2026 Block cut roughly 40 percent of its workforce and Jack Dorsey named intelligence tools as the reason, then he and Roelof Botha published the blueprint behind it, the world-model company, an organisation where AI holds a living model of the business and decisions flow through it. The idea is sound. Most of the implementations now sold on the back of it are not, and they fail in the cruelest possible way, invisibly, by quietly taking over the judgment calls your best people used to make until decision quality erodes a year later with no dashboard to show it.
This site exists to give an honest go or no-go signal before the budget moves, and to build published statistics about actual AI readiness across companies, teams and individuals. The 70 diagnostics in the library each return a private graded report, and the aggregate they produce over time is the second reason the project is here, an honest picture of where readiness really stands.
What this is not
The things this site refuses to be
A readiness instrument is only worth trusting if it has nothing to sell you at the end of it, so this one does not. There is no vendor ranking and no vendor pitch. There is no lead reselling, your answers are never sold or handed on. There is no consulting funnel dressed up as a diagnostic, no booking link waiting behind the verdict. And there are no kickbacks from any tool the site happens to name. The price of a report is a corporate email address so the report can reach you, and that address is deleted the moment you confirm it, leaving only an irreversible hash to spot duplicates.
The honesty rules
What the numbers promise, briefly
A few rules hold across every statistic the site publishes. No group under eight respondents is ever shown, in any figure, so nothing can be traced back to one company. Until a real peer group of that size exists, a report's comparison uses a modelled baseline and says so in plain text, because a readiness instrument that faked its own data would be a strange thing to trust. Industry is derived from the company domain on our own servers, never from a data broker, and it describes a company, never the individual who answered. The full version of all of this, the population, the anonymity, the benchmarks and their limits, lives on the methodology page.
The network
Where the numbers appear, and how to reach us
As the sample grows, the statistics are published across the Thorsten Meyer AI network of sites, so the same honest figures can be read wherever they are cited. Questions, corrections and press go to readiness@thorstenmeyerai.com. The legal identity behind the site, the operator and the registered details, is on the impressum.