# AI-Native Maturity Models — map

Up: [the site map](/llms.txt). Everything in one file: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

Capability models for understanding how AI-nativity changes software delivery (SDLC), product management (PDLC), prioritization understood as asset allocation (Portfolio Prioritization), and the enterprise itself (Enterprise Architecture). These models do not ask how much AI an organization uses; they ask what AI-native capability the system actually has, and what realistically adjacent capability comes next.

## How to read these models

Every dimension progresses through the same five operating states: A — Nascent, where good practice is not yet deliberately defined; B — Modeled, where an explicit method exists; C — Continuous, where the capability operates on an ongoing cadence; D — Integral, where it becomes load-bearing beyond its original owner or function; and E — Telemetric, where operation and observation form a continuous feedback loop. A is the first lettered state, not the floor: a dimension practiced with no AI-assisted method at all is Pre-AI, and a dimension an organization has deliberately excluded under a cited obligation is Exempt. The SDLC and EA models define both states; the PDLC and Prioritization models score A to E.

Every control these models describe is read by [one rule](/ai/): a guardrail contacted often is a broken process; one never contacted earns its place only by an obligation or an act that cannot be undone.

## The models

- [AI-Native EA Maturity Model](/models/ea/whole-model-view.md) — How enterprise architecture itself adapts to a practice where governed cognition isn’t exclusively human.
- [AI-Native SDLC Maturity Model](/models/sdlc/whole-model-view.md) — How specification becomes generated code, governed delivery, and production evidence.
- [AI-Native PDLC Maturity Model](/models/pdlc/whole-model-view.md) — How market intelligence becomes product definition, prioritized investment, and closed-loop calibration.
- [AI-Native Portfolio Prioritization Maturity Model](/models/prioritization/whole-model-view.md) — How organizations move from personal advocacy to coherent, governed portfolio decisions.

The Product Marketing Lifecycle Maturity Model is not yet published.

## Deep dives, as Markdown

### SDLC

- [D1. Market discovery & definition](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d1.md)
- [D2. Buyer & user persona development](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d2.md)
- [D3. Positioning & competitive intelligence](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d3.md)
- [D4. Requirements management (specification quality & traceability)](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d4.md)
- [D5. Prototyping & the prototype-to-code boundary](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d5.md)
- [D6. Architecture governance](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d6.md)
- [D7. Test-driven development (specification-driven verification)](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d7.md)
- [D8. Code verification & review](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d8.md)
- [D9. Environment management](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d9.md)
- [D10. Release discipline](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d10.md)
- [D11. Security & compliance](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d11.md)
- [D12. Instrumentation & observability](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d12.md)
- [D13. Feedback loop velocity](/models/sdlc/deep-dive/d13.md)

### PDLC

- [D1. Market discovery & definition](/models/pdlc/deep-dive/d1.md)
- [D2. Buyer & user persona development](/models/pdlc/deep-dive/d2.md)
- [D3. Positioning & competitive intelligence](/models/pdlc/deep-dive/d3.md)
- [D4. Requirements management](/models/pdlc/deep-dive/d4.md)
- [D5. Prioritization & tradeoffs](/models/pdlc/deep-dive/d5.md)
- [D6. Executive engagement & authority](/models/pdlc/deep-dive/d6.md)
- [D7. Organizational evangelism & alignment](/models/pdlc/deep-dive/d7.md)
- [D8. Portfolio & investment management](/models/pdlc/deep-dive/d8.md)
- [D9. GTM cadence & market activation](/models/pdlc/deep-dive/d9.md)
- [D10. Experimentation & validation](/models/pdlc/deep-dive/d10.md)
- [D11. Analytics & outcome measurement](/models/pdlc/deep-dive/d11.md)
- [D12. Feedback loop velocity](/models/pdlc/deep-dive/d12.md)

### Portfolio Prioritization

- [D1. Value Model Coherence](/models/prioritization/deep-dive/d1.md)
- [D2. Decision Governance & Portfolio Integration](/models/prioritization/deep-dive/d2.md)
- [D3. Outcome Calibration & Adaptation](/models/prioritization/deep-dive/d3.md)
- [The Strategic Value Matrix, this model's Level E reference pattern](/models/prioritization/strategic-value-matrix.md)

The EA model has no deep dives yet.