About

Built by operators who ran this standard inside higher education first.

Sophrosyne Systems, founded 2025 in London, Ontario, built the AI Fluency Standard — an 800-point scale that gives people and companies a shared starting point. We proved it inside higher education first; now companies can connect a verified baseline with guided learning, practice, and reassessment across every team.

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The Team

The people behind
the standard.

University leadership, company operations, AI governance, and go-to-market experience. Meet the people building and advising Sophrosyne Systems.

Dr. Lauretta Conklin Frederking

Founder & CEO

Former university president with leadership experience across Canadian and US institutions. Brings an academic perspective to organizational capability and assessment.

Education & credentials
  • Executive MBA, Ivey Business School
  • PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
  • MA, Columbia University
  • BA, University of Toronto

Melissa Jean

CFO

CPA/CMA and Associate Professor at Western's DAN Management. More than 20 years of experience in finance, operations, and organizational strategy.

Education & credentials
  • MBA, Ivey Business School
  • Honors Business Administration with Distinction, Ivey Business School
  • CPA, CMA
  • Not-for-Profit Certificate, CPA Canada

Christine Billinger

Head of Marketing

B2B SaaS marketing leader with 15+ years in demand generation and go-to-market strategy. Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship.

Education & credentials
  • Executive MBA, Ivey Business School
  • BA Hons., Anthropology, University of Victoria
  • Project Management Certificate, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Postgraduate Expert in Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing Institute

Nathanael Frederking

Co-Founder · US Market

Works across institutional measurement, financial modelling, and the expansion analytics supporting Sophrosyne's US market development.

Education & credentials
  • BS, Business Analytics, Carroll School of Management, Boston College (expected 2027)

Sushant Vasishta

Senior Advisor

Engineering leader in financial services with experience building production AI governance for regulated enterprises. Director of Engineering at Purpose Unlimited.

Education & credentials
  • MBA, Ivey Business School
  • Bachelor of Technology
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)

Put the standard to work.

Start with a measured view of your company's AI capability.

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Provenance

Proven in universities before it ever scored a company.

The capability ladder behind the Assessment — from occasional personal use, through AI grounded in a defined role, to workflows redesigned around AI, to systems deployed with governance — is not education-specific. It is a general 0–800 scale for working with AI, one we built and tested inside regional universities before adapting it for the workplace.

Why It Matters

This is a proven methodology, not one invented for a sales deck.
The same evidence-based scoring we tested inside higher education is what your board sees on the other side of an Assessment.
The Product

We call it the Scan internally. You'll know it as the AI Fluency Assessment.

It isn’t a quiz your team can talk their way through. One adaptive exam per employee, department-specific — engineering gets engineering scenarios, sales gets sales scenarios — scored on the same 800-point Fluency Standard the origin story above describes.

Your board doesn’t see a self-reported survey. They see a number your company earned, graded the moment each person submits, against an answer key locked until they’re done.

Adaptive, up to 60 minutes — scenario judgment, not trivia recall
Scored on the 800-point Fluency Standard — four 200-point sub-scores
A deep department-specific bank — Finance, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, and HR — auto-graded the moment they submit
A report placing every employee in one of four bands, from Emerging to Advanced
The prerequisite for Individual Learning and Company Progress plans
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Our Philosophy

Three principles that shape every engagement.

01

Measure what you expect.

If you expect AI fluency from your people, you need an instrument to check it — not an assumption.

02

Build what you're missing.

A score without a roadmap is a report that sits in a drawer. Every Assessment ends in a sequenced plan.

03

Re-test, don't just certify.

Fluency changes quarter to quarter. The optional Tracker lets you re-score progress instead of relying on a one-time certificate.

Measure. Learn. Verify.

Know where your people stand.
Help them move forward.

Start with a verified baseline. Build capability with purpose. Return to the score and see what changed.

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CAD $100 per employee / No subscription required