RELACTIS Blog

How people actually use AI

Essays and field guides built on the 15 AI usage types.

Rollout

You Ran the Survey. Then You Emailed the Results.

Measuring is not the goal. A survey becomes real work only when people leave knowing which role their team is missing. The 60-minute design we actually run.

Rollout

Nobody's Ignoring AI. The Calendar Is Full.

The quiet month never arrives. Managers defer AI adoption because they sit where the load concentrates. How to stop waiting for room and start handing pieces off.

Rollout

Saying No Takes Three Seconds. Doing It Takes Three Weeks.

A three-second question in a meeting can stall three weeks of work, and nobody meant any harm. What to say instead, and where to seat the sharpest person you have.

Team composition

Before You Hire an AI Expert, Recombine the People You Have

When AI adoption stalls, "nobody here really knows AI" leaves you two moves: hire, or train everybody. Try a third. Name who fills four slots on one initiative and the place it stops becomes obvious.

Rollout

Who Does What with AI

Training everyone the same way is how adoption stalls in one corner. Finding, trying, checking, fixing in place, spreading: look for whatever nobody is holding.

Rollout

You Ran AI Training. Why Isn't Anyone Using It?

Satisfaction was high, yet a month later the same few people are the only ones using it. The blocker is rarely knowledge — it is that everyone got the same session.

Measurement

What AI Skills Tests Can't Measure

Scoring people on AI ability tells you who knows the tools, not who should pilot them, own quality, or teach.

Teams

The Team AI Map: How to See Your Org's AI Adoption in One Chart

Usage dashboards show the size of the gap, not its shape. What a distribution of the 15 types reveals, including the role nobody on your team is holding.

Comparisons

Slack's 5 AI Personas vs. the 15 AI Usage Types

Slack's Workforce Lab sketched five AI personas. Here's what an extra level of resolution buys you, and where the five map onto the fifteen.

Assessment design

Is There a Real AI Personality Quiz?

Most 'AI personality quizzes' are entertainment. What would a measured, repeatable one look like? A field guide to telling the difference.

Field guide

What Type of AI User Are You? A Field Guide to Your Coworkers

The colleague who templates everything. The one who quietly refuses. The one who's already three tools ahead. You'll recognize all of them.

Type profile

The Quiet Abstainer: The Most Misunderstood Person in the AI Era

They say 'looks useful' and never open the tool. That's not laziness, and pushing harder makes it worse. A profile in empathy.

Type profile

From Critic to Verifier: When AI Skepticism Is a Superpower

The person asking 'source?' isn't blocking your AI adoption. Used well, they're the quality layer everyone else forgot to build.

Assessment design

AI Usage Style Test: What the 7 Factors Actually Measure

Creation, Crossover, Autonomy, Advocacy, Systemization, Verification, Engagement: what each factor means and why no high score is 'best'.