The skill-matrix gap analysis
A Monday-morning tool for finding where AI quietly stopped forming your next senior. Free, open, and yours to adapt.
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Skill-matrix gap analysis
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What it does
Take the competency grid you may already have, skills and behaviours down the side, seniority across the top, and run a gap analysis over every cell. Sort the work into piles.
AI can now do it with senior oversight.
Always needs a human touch.
Judgement you are one person deep on.
AI runs it end to end, nobody reviews it. Where do juniors get this practice now?
Most teams run this to find efficiency, to see what they can automate. The point of this version is to run it for the opposite purpose: find where the executional reps that used to form a junior have disappeared, and put the training back exactly there. The green cells are where AI is clearing the work juniors used to learn on. Your resilience now lives in the amber cells, and the red rows are the bench-strength gap, made visible.
What is inside
- A worked example for a generic analyst role, colour-coded and ready to read.
- A blank template you copy per role and fill with your own competencies.
- A status column that flags itself: a human-touch cell only one person deep shows "At risk".
- A live bench-strength readout that counts your human-touch cells and how many are one deep, so the gap is a number, not a feeling.
Credit and provenance
The matrix idea is adapted from the one Blendle open-sourced in its employee handbook, built by Roland Grootenboer, their first HR hire. The gap-analysis use, the split into piles and the formation column are the addition. The structural reason the human pile cannot be automated draws on Quattrociocchi, Capraro and Perc, "Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence" (2025). The instrumentation language, levels of independence and bench strength, follows Amodiovalerio Verde's PAIR model. Take it, adapt it, pass it on.