The universal standard for AI autonomy

What's your Mark?

One shared 0-to-10 scale for everyone building AI, from the hobbyist wiring up a personal assistant to the founder chasing the first fully autonomous business. It answers the one question no feature list can: how much can your AI actually be trusted to do on its own?

0–10
One scale
2
Tracks, one language
Mark 4.5
Today's frontier
Mark 10
Doesn't exist yet
Name the enemy

You don't add features.
You earn Marks.

Everyone's been measuring the wrong thing, counting integrations, tokens, tool-calls. Vanity numbers. Integration theater. Markmeter scores earned autonomy: every Mark you climb is an approval gate your AI passed to be trusted with a bigger, less-supervised job. Your first approval-gated money action. Your first fully-autonomous task. Trust, not clutter.

Choose your track — same scale, same words, two front doors
The ladder — cross-walked to SAE J3016 & CMMI

Ten Marks. You climb by earning trust.

Every Mark and the 10 milestones that earn it. ★ = the gate that clears the Mark.

Get your Mark

A free two-minute diagnostic.

Answer a short set built for your track. You get a real Mark, a 0-100 score, the single next gate to climb, and a shareable badge. No paywall on the number, and adding integrations can never raise it.

The Moonshot

When will the first fully autonomous business exist?

Mark 10 needs all 8 business functions crossing the trust line at once. We model each as its own S-curve and estimate the bottleneck, governed by the slowest one. An estimate, never a promise.

EST. ARRIVAL M4M6M8M10 TODAY · Mark 4.5 20262028203020322034
Est. arrival 2031–2034
Frontier today: Mark 4.5  ·  functions crossed: 3 / 8  ·  bottleneck: regulated money + high-trust support
Wear your Mark — the badge is the distribution engine

Earn it. Embed it. Everywhere.

A copy-paste SVG for your GitHub README, X bio, or Discord. Zero tracking pixel, provably local. Every builder's pride becomes the standard's reach.

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Never built an AI before?

Boot Up Your Butler.
Build your own AI from zero.

You've seen the movies: a brilliant inventor talks to the air, and a calm, impeccably-mannered voice runs his whole life. You figured that was fiction. It isn't anymore. Start at Mark 0 today, hardware, model, memory, voice, your first automation, your first trusted action.

Start at Mark 0 →

Markmeter is an independent, community-first project by JDB Consulting. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any film studio or fictional character. The "butler" theme is a playful, good-faith homage.

The open spec — governed in the open

An open standard no single vendor controls.

Markmeter is a public, openly-licensed spec, not one company's product. Anyone can read it, cite it, fork it, and build on it. Here's how it stays neutral, and why your Mark means something.

Open & versioned
  • Public spec, openly licensed (CC-BY spec · Apache-2.0 schema).
  • Versioned — every Mark definition is frozen per release (v0.1).
  • Changes go through public RFCs and a changelog. Nothing shifts quietly.
  • Cross-walked to SAE J3016 & CMMI for real-world credibility.
Vendor-neutral governance
  • No single vendor controls the Marks — definitions are governed by a documented process and an advisory group.
  • Any consultancy can implement the standard and help you climb. JDB Consulting is the first of several.
  • No vendor can change your Mark, or move the goalposts to sell you more.
  • Your score is yours; the credible Mark is earned by evidence, not by who you paid.

The public spec repo, methodology, and governance charter publish at launch. "Markmeter" name pending formal trademark clearance.

Want it done for you?

Skip the setup. Start higher.

We do the wiring — you earn from there. Optional climb help from JDB Consulting, a founding Markmeter implementation partner. The standard is free forever; climbing help is a separate, optional service — and you'll be able to choose from multiple vendors.

Done-for-you setup

We stand up your AI

Your tools wired, your actions live — you log in and it's already working at Mark 3. Higher tiers add multi-step workflows and unattended automations. You still earn every Mark; we just skip you past the boring setup.

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Fix my AI

Stuck or crashed? We fix it.

Authorized, time-boxed, fully-audited support — most issues diagnosed and fixed without you lifting a finger. Included in a maintenance plan, or per incident.

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Early access — no charge yet. Hosted, permission-scoped, and audited. You keep your own keys. Regulated industries (health/finance) onboard separately.