Norman's Gap is the distance between external pressure and internal regulation. Applied here, pressure is the pace of AI change, the ambiguity about what's coming, and the noise arriving from outside. Regulation is what exists to absorb it.
This tool scores both sides and reports the gap between them. It does not judge whether AI itself is good or bad. It reports whether pressure and regulation are currently in balance.
Individual measures how you personally experience AI pressure in your role right now. Organization measures whether the AI rollout your organization is running is generating pressure faster than it's building the structure to absorb it. Same underlying math, two different altitudes.
Primary Constraint names where pressure is concentrated. Bigger Drag names where regulation is weakest. Together they point at where the gap is opening, not just how wide it is.
This is a directional read, not a diagnosis. Scores reflect self-reported perception at a single point in time, not a measurement of actual job risk or organizational health. Weightings and band cutoffs reflect deliberate design choices, not statistical validation against a dataset. If AI-related stress is affecting your wellbeing, this tool is not a substitute for talking with someone you trust.
Based on Norman’s Gap, by Norman Applegate. Published by MOSei.org.